Bujnowskyj notes that while our domestic routines evolve in uncertain ways, the majority of the buildings that surround us will remain the same. He wants to adapt architecture to tackle the challenges of elements emerging in our current society, such as cloudification, electromagnetic exposure, information overload, and the redefinition of privacy as a result of →
Raqsistan, The Land of Dance: A Cartography of the Body is a fictional dance world of Pandeya’s own invention, choreographed using the traditions of ethno-contemporary Central Asian dance. “What are effective ways to express traditional and ethno-contemporary movement in a postmodern framework? How can one execute a harmonious synthesis between dance and technology in performance work? Are →
“This project’s concept is deeply connected with public space and its physical and symbolic demarcations. It questions shifting forms of group and individual communication happening within public space. One of these forms is public assembly—group performativity constantly recreated in new ways and internalized by many as a possible (only) medium of speaking up. It is →
The Artist and the Social Dreamer, curator Renan Laru-an’s study on exhibition-as-speech and speech-as-exhibition based on the image production and world-making of dictators, will respond to two architectural sites built during the Cold War period—the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in 1957 and the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in 1976. They are two buildings →
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 →
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 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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’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 →
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 →
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 →
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: →
