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Forecast Festival: Camil Navarro

Getting in Tune with Ecological Entities

Performer Camil Navarro’s sound project Ecological Assemblages explores the connection between sound and movement and the body’s own hydrological processes. →

Forecast Festival: Johanna Seelemann

Soil Searching

In Soil Assembly Johanna Seelemann explores new experimental methods of farming, nutrient production, and tools to build new soil ecosystems. →

Forecast Festival: Trà Nguyễn

Mother. Daughter. The Goddess of (Fragmented) Memory

In Mother Doesn’t Know Mnemosyne, Trà Nguyễn delves into the interplay between intergenerational trauma and fragmented recollection, weaving a slow, meditative theatrical experience that embodies the complex legacies of motherhood, memory, and resilience. →

Forecast Festival: Hao Zhou

Correction Through Connection

A multi-layered journey of love and transformation, Correct Me If I’m Wrong explores the intersection of modernity and tradition to navigate personal and familial history while testing social and personal boundaries. →

Forecast Festival: Mehdi Dahkan

Defiant Bodies

Mehdi Dahkan’s choreography KMs of Resistance highlights the body’s ability to codify messages and sidestep constraints. →

Forecast Festival 9 x LINA

The LINA Fellows' Activations Program at the Forecast Festival

This year, at the ninth Forecast Festival, five fellows of the European architecture platform LINA hosted a rich program of activations proposing viable prototypes for a future human and nonhuman habitat. →

Forecast 9: It’s a Wrap!

Watch the Recap of the 2025 Forecast Festival

Forecast 9 culminated in a two-day event which marked the conclusion of the 2024-25 edition. From March 14–15, the mentees premiered their projects at Radialsystem and the mentors each presented unique work. In addition, five LINA fellows offered workshops and participatory activations relating to their respective practices as urbanists and architects. →

Forecast Festival 2025

Book Your Festival Passes

The ninth edition of Forecast culminates in an action-packed Festival on March 14–15, at Radialsystem. →

Forecast Festival: Carlos Gutiérrez

Music for the Head and the Body

In Infinite Warp and Weft, Carlos Gutiérrez highlights the experience of sonic illusions that arrive after an intense, concentrated musical experience. →

Forecast Festival: Marcela Huerta

Siting the Unsayable

On Marcela and Yolanda Huerta’s collaborative poetic experience as a form of bodily reckoning. →

Forecast Festival: Victor Artiga Rodriguez

Thoughts on Thoughts on Fluid Assemblages

In Victor Artiga Rodriguez’s project, kidneys become the metaphorical site of the work and renal relations comprise the conceptual and the choreographic stuff of a piece rooted in interaction and improvisation. →

Forecast Festival: Gustavo Gomes

Desire, Guilt, and the Ability to Connect

Addressing hidden histories of exploitation and suffering, Gustavo Gomes’s work Manhandle promises to accomplish art’s great alchemy of turning private pain into shared healing and transcendence. →

Forecast Festival: Aidan Jason Peters

Designing for a Nascent Cultural Identity

Aidan Jayson Peters’s debut collection highlights the erosion of local craftsmanship as the hidden cost of a global fashion industry. →

Forecast Festival: Mari Kalabegashvili

Drifting on the Border of Public and Private

Mari Kalabegashvili’s project If You Catch My Drift views urban car racing as a gently rebellious means of marking territory, both literally and metaphorically. →

Spring School: Plants in Cityscapes

A Joint Experiment in Informal Education

During the eighth Forecast Festival, Forecast hosted its first-ever Spring School program, in cooperation with Living Summer School and LUMA Arles / Atelier LUMA, on the topic of plants in the urban environment. →

Forecast Festival 2024

Discover Audacious Contributions by the Mentors and Mentees

Boundary-pushing projects by artists, performers, musicians, and poets get their world premiere at the Forecast Festival following a monthslong collaboration with renowned mentors. →

Forecast 7: It’s a Wrap!

Watch the Recap of the 2023 Forecast Festival

Forecast 7 culminated in a two-day event which marked the conclusion of the 2022-23 edition. From March 17–18, the mentees premiered their projects at Radialsystem and the mentors each presented unique work. In addition, LINA fellows Studio Inscape and Tevi Allan Mensah offered workshops relating to their respective practices as urbanists and architects. →

Forecast Festival: Peny Chan

Finding and Redefining the Concubine’s Voice

Malaysian singer and performer Peny Chan casts a female gaze on the Peking Opera and finds her voice within it by teasing out the tensions between tradition and the contemporary moment. →

Forecast Festival: Hamza Baig

Humor as a Resilient and Transcendent Remedy

Comedy anchors filmmaker Hamza Baig’s project The Marblous Four, which revives a traditional Pakistani game to imagine a homegrown superhero. →

Forecast Festival: Tom Cassani

Participating in Feats of Wonder

Tom Cassani uses wonder to conjure conversations about the nature of perception and call for a shared understanding of truth. →

Forecast Festival: Luciana Decker Orozco

Reworlding Stories to Embody Collectivity

Luciana Decker Orozco’s film installation draws upon ancient oral traditions from the Bolivian Andes that imbue nature with personhood to revere and protect it. →

Forecast Festival: Alexis Guillier

The Latent Politics of Filmset Accidents

Alexis Guillier’s project explores what happens when, instead of moving past accidents in Lebanon, we investigate them. →

Forecast Festival: Mia Stark

To Optimize Your View, Let Things Get a Bit Absurd First

The deadpan humor of Mia Štark’s project An Anthology of Glances is an opportunity to understand the wealth of perspectives available through our bodies. →

Forecast Festival 2023

Experience New Cutting-Edge Projects

Forecast 7 will culminate in a two-day event at Radialsystem on March 17–18. The entire venue will be activated through boundary-pushing contributions by the mentors and mentees including stand-up comedy, deconstructed magic, cinematic explorations, and vocal experimentations. →

Forecast 6: It’s a Wrap!

Watch the Recap of the Sixth Forecast Festival, 2022

Following a ten-month collaboration with their mentors, the six artists, performers, designers, choreographers, and creative thinkers of Forecast 6 premiered their works at the Forecast Festival, on April 8–9, at radialsystem in Berlin. →

Forecast Festival 2022

Forecast 6 will culminate in a two-day event

The entire venue will be activated through interactive artworks and sensory experiences, guided walkthroughs, workshops, and showcases. See the full program here. →

Forecast Festival, Edition 5

Watch the Recording of the Two-Day Festival

The six mentees of Forecast's fifth edition unveiled their productions at the Forecast Festival, which took place as a hybrid event staged at radialsystem and streamed online on April 9–10, 2021. →

Forecast Festival 5: Conversations

Watch the Conversations in Full Length

The mentees and mentors of Forecast's fifth edition invited leading figures in their fields to engage in conversations around their projects at the Forecast Festival. →

Forecast Festival, Edition 4

Watch the Recording of the Hybrid Festival

Following the postponement of the fourth edition’s closing event by a year due to the pandemic, the Festival was livestreamed from radialsystem in Berlin on April 1–2, 2021. →

Forecast Festival 4: Conversations

Watch the Talks in Full Length

The mentees and mentors of Forecast's fourth edition invited leading figures in their fields to engage in conversations around their projects. →

Forecast Festivals 2021

Editions 4 and 5 Culminate in Hybrid Events

The Festivals will be livestreamed from radialsystem in Berlin on April 1–2 and April 9–10 →

Postponed

The Fourth Forecast Festival Has Been Postponed →

Forecast Festival 2020

Save the Date →

Artistic Director Freo Majer on the Third Edition of Forecast

Snowball Effect

For the third edition of Forecast, we want­ed to match if not surpass the success of the first two festivals, not merely with different mentors and mentees, but also with new working methods and event formats. Feed­back from former partici­pants and mentors encouraged us to explore and experiment further—as radi­cally as ever, with all the associ­ated risks. →
MIIIN at Forecast Fesitval 2018

Forecast Festival 2018

It's a Wrap!

The third edition of Forecast has come to an end, culminating in the two-day Forecast Festival at Haus der Kulturen der Welt on October 12–13. The event also marked the close of a fruitful three-year partnership with the HKW; Forecast’s next edition will take place at the new partner institution in Berlin, radialsystem. →
Resolve Design

Collaboration with Future Architecture Platform

RESOLVE: Off Grid

As a member of the European initiative Future Architecture Platform, Forecast has invited the design collective RESOLVE to contribute its participatory project Off Grid to the Forecast Festival. Investigating how migration and division shape our cities, Off Grid presents a moving space that playfully responds to the austere mathematical models explaining human separation. →

Forecast Festival 2018, Program

Immerse Yourself in Six Cutting-Edge Projects

The third edition of the Forecast Festival presents six pioneering projects created and developed by emerging practitioners along with their mentors.

Julia E Dyck

Beyond Radio: Frequency Interference

During the Forecast Festival, Montréal-based musician and radio producer Julia E Dyck will invite listeners to immerse themselves in a live sci-fi drama in five acts, which is broadcast from the space-age building of the HKW.

Saverio Cantoni

Living Matter: Organism 518400

Welcome. Make yourself comfortable. What’s a comfort zone? Does your comfort level depend on access to high‑speed WiFi?There is no WiFi here. FORGIVE-US. What brought you here? Did you see the flags? Or maybe you noticed the infrared painting at the entrance? Of course not, how could you? What’s Living Matter? Are you also hearing →

MIIIN

Composition: A Music Report on the Human Species—Beyond Extinction

At the forecast Festival, the Seoul-based musician MIIIN will perform a live score of tracks, titled A Music Report on the Human Species: Beyond Extinction, that sonically depict historical events. →
Omar A. Chowdhury, Augustijn (film still).

Omar A. Chowdhury

Moving Image: Augustijn

Augustijn is the title of a multichannel installation by artist Omar A. Chowdhury, based on his real-life chance encounter with a young Belgian man called Stijn, short for Augustijn, and the relationship the two have developed since then. The charismatic Stijn is a recent convert to Islam, and his devotion comes to the fore when →

Abhijan Toto

Looking: The Exhaustion Project

In the weeks following the Forecast Forum, Kolkata-based curator Abhijan Toto and his mentor, David Elliott, defined the main themes that run through Toto’s ongoing curatorial investigations in The Exhaustion Project. Each of the artists included in the latest iteration of the project devised by Toto, and which will be on view during the Forecast →

Commonplace Studio

Invasive Design: Backchannel Tools

In mid-July, Canadian-born designer Jon Stam, who is one half of the Amsterdam-based practice Commonplace Studio, traveled to the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Applied Arts) in Dresden to work with his mentor Tulga Beyerle, the museum’s director, on ways in which design can invade the collection. →

Forecast 2017, summary

The Cycle Starts All Over Again

A brief moment to breathe: In late October 2017, our second edition of Forecast closed with an enormously energetic Forecast Festival. “It was a huge success, and I’m a bit overwhelmed,” joked Forecast founder and artistic director Freo Majer, commenting on the project’s past year and especially the Festival itself. At the event, each of →

Flora Miranda

Knitting Identities

In just a few days, designer Flora Miranda’s live performance—a fascinating collaboration between the digital realm and the worlds of design and music—will be shared at the Forecast Festival. Visitors may experience the entire process, and gain valuable insights into Miranda’s wholly innovative way of working, which will shape future concepts of creativity. Miranda decided →

Tara Catherine Pandeya

Dance without Borders

Tara Catherine Pandeya is in the midst of final rehearsals for her one-woman show at the Forecast Festival, which draws upon traditional dances to address topical questions of alterity and exclusion. In Raqsistan, The Land of Dance: A Cartography of the Body, she aims to stage physically innovative responses to conflicts heightened in our contemporary →

Liliana Piskorska

Individual Bodies, Public Protest

It’s just a few days until the debut of Liliana Piskorska’s video art piece Public Displays of Affection at the Forecast Festival, which vividly illustrates the physical clash between protestors and police. Examining this contact through the medium of film will allow Festival visitors to engage with a topical issue in an innovative way. Piskorska’s →

Renan Laru-an

Exhibition as Speech, Speech as Exhibition

In the final days before the Forecast Festival, curator Renan Laru-an is working closely with his mentor and his team to solidify his study of dictators’ image production and world-making, captured in his project The Artist and the Social Dreamer. The Haus der Kulturen der Welt auditorium is the heart of his work. Here, visitors →

Mathieu Bujnowskyj

Objects as Triggers

Reflecting on six months of intense collaboration with mentor Philippe Rahm, Mathieu Bujnowskyj shares three key insights.   The Forecast Festival is days away, and architect Mathieu Bujnowskyj is putting the finishing touches on his prototypes before their debut at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. His designs reinterpret three antique furniture typologies. The prototypes →

Stefan Maier

The Strange Institution Comes to Life

Finalizing his new work for Forecast, Stefan Maier explores the connection between contemporary “therapeutic” uses of sound and trends in experimental composition. Implicit relations between composition and sonic “cultures of self-care” are made concrete. →

Forecast Festival 2017

Come Join Us

"No matter how vague or bold each idea might be at the beginning, it takes on a physical, tangible shape for the first time at the Forecast Festival." – Freo Majer, Forecast Artistic Director →

Flora Miranda

“I See Myself in the Screen”

Flora Miranda has always immersed herself in environments where creativity is paramount, but one element—digital technology—remained inaccessible. Until she began her research for Forecast, that is. “My work so far has always dealt with topics relating to the digital world,” Miranda recounts. “But it was always a fictional, speculative approach, due to a lack of →

Renan Laru-an

A Congress of Dictators

The curator Renan Laru-an started with a fascination for the volatile subject of dictators’ speeches. At the Forecast Forum, his focus was on printed works, reflecting on the question of how to present these speeches in an exhibition. But his close mentoring relationship with Hou Hanru has inspired him to pivot into an intriguing new →

Liliana Piskorska

Transposing the Violence

Liliana Piskorska’s video art project “Public Displays of Affection” originally focused on the tremendous changes Poland has undergone in recent years. In a series of intense discussions with her mentor, video artist Bjørn Melhus, she has begun to look away from the specifics of one nation’s politics to the sheer physicality of “the moment of →

Tara Catherine Pandeya

Enter the Other

Tara Catherine Pandeya’s performance operates at emotional, gender-based, socio-historical, and geographic points of friction. In developing her Forecast project, the artist searches for ways to question borders through dance.  →

Stefan Maier

Feeling Sounds

Stefan Maier’s Forecast project explores the impact of sound on our physicality—how it transforms our nervous systems and gets to our corporeality’s beating heart. His performative installation questions habitual modes of thinking and interacting with music. The discovery of a unique way to physically engage the audience in his music has transformed his plans for →

Mathieu Bujnowskyj

Architecture in the Post-Digital Age

By exploring ways of using architecture to address the needs of a society tethered to digital technologies, Mathieu Bujnowskyj’s partnership with mentor Phillippe Rahm is inciting questions on the discourse of the discipline itself. From WiFi to 3G, from the cloud to our constant attachment to smartphones, everything and everyone is perpetually connected. As part →

The Selected Mentees 2017

The Projects Have Been Selected!

Now that the Forecast Forum at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) has concluded, we are delighted to announce the concepts our mentees will realize with their mentors: The Artist and the Social Dreamer Mentee: Renan Laru-an / Mentor: Hou Hanru Public Displays of Affection Mentee: Liliana Piskorska / Mentor: Bjørn Melhus Fullspectrum Furniture Mentee: →

Forecast Festival 2016

The First Edition of the Forecast Festival →

Wendy Di Wang and Markus Diebel

Interview

Changing human behavior by light

In conversation with Wendy Di Wang and Markus Diebel Markus, what was the thing that most sparked your interest when you first looked at Wendy Di Wang’s project? When I looked at her proposal, the simplicity of her idea caught my attention. It was strikingly easy, in a way that anybody could understand: Changing human →

The Selected Mentees 2015

One Weekend, Thirty Ideas, Six Tandems

The Forecast Forum: Ruminations on the anthropocene meet research on photographic techniques. Considerations of moss as a design object encounter reflections on the music scene in Palestine. Over the course of three days, the Forecast Forum offered audiences live presentations by 30 talents from the fields of design, art, architecture and science and created a →

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