Forecast Festival 2025

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

Following a monthslong collaboration with their mentors, six creative practitioners unveil their productions at Radialsystem, Berlin.

The mentors will also present their own work, offering insights into the topics that inspire and move them. Experience performances, installations, screenings, and talks by this edition's participants!

In addition, five fellows of the European architecture platform LINA will host a rich program of activations proposing viable prototypes for a future human and nonhuman habitat.

Scroll down for the full program:

 

Program

Projects marked with ** are accessible throughout the Festival’s duration

FRIDAY, MARCH 14
Start 7pm | Doors 6pm

7pm   Open Minded Body

Mehdi Dahkan (mentee) will unveil his new work KMs of Resistance, which draws inspiration from dances traditional to North Africa where, under colonial rule, coded messages were communicated through movement.

Choreographer Alice Ripoll (mentor) will present excerpts from an ongoing research project called Studies on Fluctuation.


8:15pm   
A Place Beyond Fear

Hao Zhou
(mentee) will share his autobiographical documentary film Correct Me If I’m Wrong, about a family’s attempt to correct a male heir’s deviation from societal expectations.

Documentary filmmaker Tomer Heymann‘s (mentor) feature film I Am Not (2021) is a moving and complex story about a search for belonging and the therapeutic role of cinema.

SATURDAY, MARCH 15
Start 5pm | Doors 4pm

 

5pm Images Invisible to Our Naked Eye

Photographer Lieko Shiga (mentor), When the Wind Blows, a site-aware installation.**

Mei Liu‘s (mentee) Homesick for Another World is a multimedia performance that moves between various societies, times, and political struggles to map the underground rhizomes of connected structures.


6:30pm Shapes of the Unknown

Artist Theo Eshetu (mentor) will present a work-in-progress version of a soon-to-be-premiered video work titled The Garden #1.**

Trà Nguyễn (mentee) will premiere Mother Doesn’t Know Mnemosyne, a slow-paced play on the complex web of relationships between female characters with different histories.

Xiaowen Zhu (Author and Director, esea contemporary, Manchester) in conversation with Trà Nguyễn and Theo Eshetu 


8pm Paradoxical Imaginings­–Ideas and Objects

Designer Johanna Seelemann (mentee) will showcase the performative installation Soil Assembly, imagining a transformative approach to farming.**

8:15pm Designer Fiona Raby (mentor) and Johanna Seelemann will each present selected projects.


Expanding Your Voice

Camil Navarro
’s (mentee) durational performance Ecological Assemblage is a sonorous reflection on water-risk issues in Chile. The performance takes place from 4:00–7:30pm.

9pm Michael Rosen (Digital in Berlin) in conversation with composer and performer Ute Wassermann (mentor) and Camil Navarro. 

9:15 Ute Wassermann will close out the Festival with a solo performance titled Catch für Stimme und Objekte.

 

Accompanying Program by the LINA Fellows:

The program offered by the LINA Fellows is accessible with a day pass. The Nightwalk with Elena Agudo-Sierra is free of charge. Registration is required to all events.

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 13

BerLINights: Mapping safety after dark
Exploratory nighttime walk with architect Elena Agudo-Sierra

Participants will explore and examine the dynamics of safety through the lens of urban dark infrastructure. By engaging in exploratory nighttime walks, applying collective mapping techniques, and analyzing both objective and subjective data, participants will identify areas of safety and vulnerability in the urban environment after dark. The innovation lies in the combination of tools such as physical tagging, puzzle scanning, and/or WebGIS. Through personal reflections and group discussions, a collective manifesto will be created to envision a safer urban nighttime. 

7:30–10:30 pm
Meeting point: Radialsystem, foyer
Participation is free

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 15

Mountains of Berlin: Documenting Landfills of Postwar Rubble 
By Adam Przywara and Jonathan Banz

In the aftermath of World War II, one-fifth of the rubble which resulted from the Allied bombings of Germany were in Berlin. Where did that mass of debris go? The walk will investigate and document one of the so-called Trümmerberge, landfills of postwar rubble. During the day in Volkspark Friedrichshain participants will learn about, and use a variety of site-documentation techniques, including frottage and laser scanning. Juxtaposing the visual data with information found in historical sources, participants will attempt to grasp the complexity of the manufactured mountain.  

Useful to bring along:
-Snacks 
-Phone with camera 
-Power banks 

10am–4pm
Meeting point: Restaurant & Biergarten Schoenbrunn, Volkspark Friedrichshain

 

The Joy of Constructing Situations
A Situationist workshop by Dérive

Taking place in and around the Radialsystem, participants will create a series of “situations,” or temporary architectures. We learn from the Situationist International and pay homage to the work Dwellings by Charles Simonds in creating our own imaginative worlds through the joy of stacking brick-by-brick, step-by-step. We will provide the bricks made out of clay or plaster and all the necessary materials and tools for the workshop. 

10am–4pm
Meeting point: Radialsystem, foyer
Lunch will be provided

 

(UN)COMMON THREADS 
Workshop and speculative storytelling game by Wit(h)nessing

Participants will collaboratively craft alternative narratives by delving into the layers of human and nonhuman histories, actualities, and virtualities that shape different spaces and worlds. Using image and text cards, players will weave stories with overlooked perspectives, odd relations, or hidden connections, opening pathways to reimagine future scenarios. The game encourages imaginative thinking across diverse contexts, inviting participants to think beyond the constraints of the present.  

6–8pm
Meeting point: Radialsystem, foyer

 

RADIO LINA
A sound installation by Atelier Remoto + AlteSfere

As part of the roving residence Periple Duet by Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa, Atelier Remoto and Altesfere—an architect and a sound designer—recorded voices and sounds related to the multiple meanings of the word Conviviality, across remote and peripheral areas of Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal. They stopped by communities, associations, and individuals where this word becomes an active, radical, and alternative way to cohabit, coexist, and resist the magnetic force of urban centers. During the Festival, they will occupy a niche at Radialsystem, where the collected field recordings and interviews will be transformed into an immersive soundscape of distant worlds. Visitors will also jump into cozy recording stations to boost new stories and implement the critical audio archive of radioLina.

6pm and 7:30pm
At Radialsystem