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Weekend Tips: What to Do This Weekend in Berlin
October 9 to 11, 2026: Events, festivals, exhibitions and more things to do for your perfect weekend in Berlin. more
Open Lab Abend: Unsichtbare Daten sichtbar machen
Date details
- Date Thursday, 15/October/2026 17:00 bis 20:00
- Venue Futurium
- Address Alexanderufer 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Public transportation
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Train (S-Bahn)
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S+U Berlin Hauptbahnhof
- S3
- S5
- S7
- S9
- S15
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S+U Berlin Hauptbahnhof
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Underground
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Bus
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Futurium
- 245
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S+U Hauptbahnhof/Washingtonplatz
- 245
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Schumannstr.
- 147
- M41
- N5
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Charité - Campus Mitte
- 147
- M41
- N5
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Karlplatz
- 245
- M41
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S+U Berlin Hauptbahnhof
- S7
- 120
- 142
- 147
- M41
- N5
- N20
- N40
- 123
- M85
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Berlin, Invalidenpark
- 120
- N20
- 142
- 147
- M41
- N5
- N6
- N40
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Katharina-Paulus-Str.
- 245
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Deutsches Theater
- 147
- 245
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Robert-Koch-Platz
- 142
- N40
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Lehrter Str./Invalidenstr.
- 123
- 142
- N40
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Philippstr.
- 142
- N40
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Habersaathstr.
- 120
- N20
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Reichstag/Bundestag
- 100
- M41
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Seydlitzstr.
- 123
- 142
- N40
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Platz der Republik
- 100
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Futurium
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Tram
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S+U Berlin Hauptbahnhof
- M8
- M10
- M5
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Berlin, Invalidenpark
- M8
- M10
- M5
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Clara-Jaschke-Str.
- M8
- M5
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Lesser-Ury-Weg
- M10
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S+U Berlin Hauptbahnhof
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Train
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S+U Berlin Hauptbahnhof
- RE3
- RE5
- RE4
- RB10
- RE8
- FEX
- RE20
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S+U Berlin Hauptbahnhof
Open Lab Evening: Making Invisible Data Visible
Playing Field: Digital Futures
How can we make invisible climate data tangible? At this Open Lab evening, we’ll explore the relationship between people, machines, and the environment. After gaining an insight into electrical engineering and human-computer interaction, you’ll work in small groups to build your own prototypes that translate climate data—such as temperature or air pressure—into light, movement, or vibration.
The workshop combines design, technology, and questions about the future, inviting participants to playfully explore new forms of the human-machine relationship. The central question is how data—often invisible and abstract—becomes tangible through technology and how it influences our perception, our bodies, and our view of humanity.
After a brief introduction to electrical engineering, human-machine interaction, and approaches to “cyborgization,” we’ll open the discussion: How are our relationships with machines changing as they become increasingly embedded in our environment and our bodies? How does the measurement of our environment and bodies affect our sense of self? And how can we design technologies so that they meaningfully complement human needs?
In the hands-on portion, we’ll work in small groups on our own design projects. Using the sensors provided, you’ll develop your own prototypes that translate climate data into tangible signals—such as temperature or air pressure into light, movement, or vibration. With the help of these prototypes, you can develop ideas for using climate data while also reflecting on how technologies are changing our understanding of the body, perception, and what it means to be human.
In this series, in cooperation with the Berlin Open Lab ( BOL), you’ll experience design research as a vast playground of digitalization and, through a variety of workshop formats, set out to discover what will define us as human beings in a digitized future. Work with researchers to build digital prototypes, test AI models, and explore VR worlds—and help answer exciting questions: What does love mean in the age of AI and virtual realities? Can AI distinguish between pornography and art? Is AI perhaps changing the way we think? And can invisible, abstract data be made visible—or even experienced through the senses?
Collaboration
The Berlin Open Lab (BOL) at the UdK Berlin brings together researchers and ideas from various fields to enable new forms of design. The Berlin Open Lab is an experimental space for transdisciplinary research projects at the intersection of technology, society, and art.
Workshop Leader
-> Hannah Friederike Fischer is a product designer and design researcher. She explores participatory design approaches and qualitative research methods in the field of human-computer interaction, with a focus on smart textiles and wearable technologies for health and care. Her practice combines research and prototyping to examine interconnected social and technological systems and develop responsible, sustainable design solutions. She studied at art and design colleges in Berlin, Braunschweig, Dundee, and Potsdam, and lives and works in Berlin.
-> Emil Woop is an interaction designer and design researcher. His research focuses on the development of novel interaction paradigms and haptic experiences through participatory design practices, Soma Design methods, and physical prototyping. He studied architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts and interface design at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, and lives and works in Berlin.
Information
-> Venue: Futurium Lab Workshop
-> Admission: free
-> Registration is required.
-> Remaining tickets are available on-site.
-> Event language: German
-> Maximum number of participants: 12 people
-> The event is open to anyone aged 16 and older.
-> Duration: 3 hours
-> Requirements: No prior knowledge required
Accessibility
-> We are a wheelchair-accessible venue.
-> Spaces without seating are available for people in wheelchairs.
The future is for everyone! The Futurium aims to be accessible to all. If you have any additional accessibility needs, please let us know. We’ll do our best to accommodate them:
Here you’ll find all the information about accessibility:
Photos & Videos
Photos and videos will be taken during the event. If you do not wish to be photographed or filmed, please let us know in advance.
Tickets
-> You’ll need a free ticket for this event.
-> Due to limited seating, only one ticket per person can be booked.
-> Futurium thrives on big ideas—and small contributions. With a donation, you help make the future possible! You can support Futurium here: with DeepL
The workshop combines design, technology, and questions about the future, inviting participants to playfully explore new forms of the human-machine relationship. The central question is how data—often invisible and abstract—becomes tangible through technology and how it influences our perception, our bodies, and our view of humanity.
After a brief introduction to electrical engineering, human-machine interaction, and approaches to “cyborgization,” we’ll open the discussion: How are our relationships with machines changing as they become increasingly embedded in our environment and our bodies? How does the measurement of our environment and bodies affect our sense of self? And how can we design technologies so that they meaningfully complement human needs?
In the hands-on portion, we’ll work in small groups on our own design projects. Using the sensors provided, you’ll develop your own prototypes that translate climate data into tangible signals—such as temperature or air pressure into light, movement, or vibration. With the help of these prototypes, you can develop ideas for using climate data while also reflecting on how technologies are changing our understanding of the body, perception, and what it means to be human.
In this series, in cooperation with the Berlin Open Lab ( BOL), you’ll experience design research as a vast playground of digitalization and, through a variety of workshop formats, set out to discover what will define us as human beings in a digitized future. Work with researchers to build digital prototypes, test AI models, and explore VR worlds—and help answer exciting questions: What does love mean in the age of AI and virtual realities? Can AI distinguish between pornography and art? Is AI perhaps changing the way we think? And can invisible, abstract data be made visible—or even experienced through the senses?
Collaboration
The Berlin Open Lab (BOL) at the UdK Berlin brings together researchers and ideas from various fields to enable new forms of design. The Berlin Open Lab is an experimental space for transdisciplinary research projects at the intersection of technology, society, and art.
Workshop Leader
-> Hannah Friederike Fischer is a product designer and design researcher. She explores participatory design approaches and qualitative research methods in the field of human-computer interaction, with a focus on smart textiles and wearable technologies for health and care. Her practice combines research and prototyping to examine interconnected social and technological systems and develop responsible, sustainable design solutions. She studied at art and design colleges in Berlin, Braunschweig, Dundee, and Potsdam, and lives and works in Berlin.
-> Emil Woop is an interaction designer and design researcher. His research focuses on the development of novel interaction paradigms and haptic experiences through participatory design practices, Soma Design methods, and physical prototyping. He studied architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts and interface design at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, and lives and works in Berlin.
Information
-> Venue: Futurium Lab Workshop
-> Admission: free
-> Registration is required.
-> Remaining tickets are available on-site.
-> Event language: German
-> Maximum number of participants: 12 people
-> The event is open to anyone aged 16 and older.
-> Duration: 3 hours
-> Requirements: No prior knowledge required
Accessibility
-> We are a wheelchair-accessible venue.
-> Spaces without seating are available for people in wheelchairs.
The future is for everyone! The Futurium aims to be accessible to all. If you have any additional accessibility needs, please let us know. We’ll do our best to accommodate them:
Here you’ll find all the information about accessibility:
Photos & Videos
Photos and videos will be taken during the event. If you do not wish to be photographed or filmed, please let us know in advance.
Tickets
-> You’ll need a free ticket for this event.
-> Due to limited seating, only one ticket per person can be booked.
-> Futurium thrives on big ideas—and small contributions. With a donation, you help make the future possible! You can support Futurium here: with DeepL
Meeting point: Workshop Area of the Lab
Booking: Registration is required.
Booking: Registration is required.
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