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Symbiotic lab

As Symbiotic lab we operate through art and design to make ecological issues accessible and implement concrete change."

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"To join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up." Timothy Morton

ecology

"By fully reinstating the sensible in consciousnesses and in thought, art can accomplish a part of the socio-ecological transformation."

art

" For Better or worse, design does. We use our tools to foster positive change."

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● FOLGE UNS AUF INSTAGRAM ● NEWS: GIB DER SPREE DEINE STIMME FÜR EINE BESSERE UMWELT
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•  Upcoming Event  •  Between Roots & Crowns in Branitz, Cottbus   1 Mai - 31 Oktober 2024
•  Upcoming Event  •  Between Roots & Crowns in Branitz, Cottbus   1 Mai - 31 Oktober 2024
•  Upcoming Event  •  Between Roots & Crowns in Branitz, Cottbus   1 Mai - 31 Oktober 2024
•  Upcoming Event  •  Between Roots & Crowns in Branitz, Cottbus   1 Mai - 31 Oktober 2024
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Between Roots & Crowns
Cottbus, Branitz
Klimajahr
2024
Drei ortsspezifische Interventionen fügen sich zu einer Tour durch den östlichen Teil des Branitzer Parks. Diese nehmen verschiedene Aspekte in den Blick, die Branitz mit seiner Baumuniversität als Zukunftslabor präsentieren. Themen sind Bäume im Klimawandel, das Ökosystem Park, der Erhalt des Gartendenkmals sowie die Vorreiterrolle der Branitzer Baumuniversität auf diesem Gebiet.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
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Wild River Prelude
Zurich
Performance
2024
Live Performance Installation at Toni Areal Orgel Saal in Zürich on the 03.02

Europe’s pristine river sounds, manipulated in real-time by Pietro Dossena with a modular synthesizer, creates a unique sonic landscape. Audience interaction, guided by a gyroscopic sensor, allows personalized spatial manipulation. The installation raises awareness for river conservation, blending natural and electronic sounds, accompanied by visual art from Jakob Kukula and live acoustic music interactions.
Curators: Jasmine Alakari & Ric Acciarino
Supported by the School of Commons
Humboldthafen Entwurf
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WeWater
Berlin
Exhibition
2023
WeWater brings together perspectives from design, art and science around the theme of water at Berlin's Paul Lincke Ufer.
The baseline for the exhibition is the urban design "SpreeVision-Osthafen", which was developed by the SpreeBerlin initiative. The design shows the scenario of a socially and ecologically transformed Spree in the section of the Osthafen basin.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
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DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
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SpreeVision
Osthafen
Project
2023
The Spree is home to a unique diversity of living creatures and is also one of the most threatened ecosystems in Berlin. In order to promote the potential of the river and its banks, different usage scenarios and urban designs are being developed by Jakob Kukula and Jan Colomer
Humboldthafen Entwurf
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MetaMorphosis
Europa
Performance
2021 - 2022
The MetaMorphosis project, initiated in 2021 by artist Jakob Kukula and developed with artist Xaver Hirsch, composer Ben Meerwein, and ecologist Esteban Menares, explores the habitat of insects through interdisciplinary collaboration. They researched insect life in the Ammersee region during a residency, creating an artistic ritual that combined acoustic and visual impressions in an immersive audio-visual performance. The project's method, consisting of a scientific lecture, workshop, and performance, now unfolds at different locations like the Berlin environmental education center "Im Nirgendwo" and Art Biesenthal in Brandenburg (2022).
Humboldthafen Entwurf
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MetaMorphosis
Europe
Publication
2022
The starting point for the publication project MetaMorphosis is an understanding of humans as part of an assemblage of human and non-human actors that is always already in the process of becoming. In addition to concrete ideas on how to counteract the fatal species extinction of insects, this volume brings together contributions that spark the curiosity of readers in artistic, poetic, or philosophical ways and offer diverse approaches to the topic of metamorphosis.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
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Living With Uncertainty
Munich
Residency
2022
In the artistic project "Living with Uncertainties" at the Ebenböckhaus Residency in Munich, Florentin Aisslinger, Leonardo Pellegrino and Jakob Kukula address the question of how we can deal with today's uncertainties. Fear, uncertainty and discomfort serve as a compass. Amidst closely intertwined environmental, socio-political, and economic phenomena, we are experiencing a crisis of meaning, sense, and narrative. To confront this crisis, new forms of unified engagement and conscious persistence in uncertainty are needed.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
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Unseal The City
Berlin
Intervention
2021
Soil sealing reduces ecological functions and alters the exchange of energy, water and gases between the area below and above a soil sealing layer. This has a direct negative impact on plant and animal biodiversity, such as the loss of plants and animals and their natural habitats. Plant biodiversity stimulates soil biodiversity and leads to increased soil function. Loss of natural habitat has been identified as one of the main reasons for recent declines in insect populations. The project is an “unsealing campaign” that invites the guests of a techno open air to while enjoying the music unseal a 12m2 area of a huge parking lot.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
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SynchroniCities
Berlin
Exhibition
2021
Which strategies can help to promote transformative processes of becoming-with? How do we create a mode of being in which all species co-exist equally? Which tools can help to look, listen and feel more closely? The participating urbanists, artists, designers and scientists present planet-centeric formats, ideas and projects that use all senses to investigate urban futures. The SynchroniCities exhibition invites you on an adventurous journey towards possible answers.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
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SpreeBerlin
Berlin
Initiative
2020-2023
In the context of the climate crisis and the accompanying social change, the project by Jakob Kukula examines the relationship between Berlin and the Spree, the urban space, the citizens and the body of water. How can the river be given its own "political" voice, and what can help to create more awareness for the Spree and the influence of humans?
Humboldthafen Entwurf
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Peatland Forensics
Weimar
Project
2021
Peatland Forensics engages the phenomenon of environmental mourning through a site-specific design and grieving process. What does it mean to grieve for a landscape? The term ecological grief describes negative emotions brought on by experiencing indirect or direct consequences of the climate crisis.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
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DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Dp
DeProfundis
Sindelfingen
Exhibition
2023
Using various digital media, Pascal Marcel Dreier assembles an activist, an NGO, a major record company, and a well-known musician into an unlikely crew. In the interactive video installation, they enter a thrilling vortex of facts and fictions, appropriations and counter-appropriations, in which their roles ceaselessly reconfigure.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
Sv
SpreeVision
Osthafen
Entwurf
2022
SPREEVISION ist die Zukunftsebene der SpreeBerlin Initiative. Mithilfe gestalterischer Werkzeuge und Methoden wird hier am Beispiel bestimmter Abschnitte der Spree aufgezeigt, wie das Ökosystem seine Potentiale für eine lebenswertere Stadt entfalten kann.
Humboldthafen Entwurf
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