Festival – Forecast

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. →

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. →

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

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. →

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. →

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.

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.

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 →

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 →