Zukunft
Zukunft
A symbol of the threat to humanity posed by environmental degradation: a plastic bag that floats in water. “If you believe that the world can stay as it is, the laws of nature will show you the limits. Change is omnipresent, is the new constant. Whether we shape this change or surrender ourselves to it will decide our future,” comments Carl-Friedrich Schleussner from the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys).
Foto: (c) HU Berlin unter Verwendung von Motiven von will terra (unsplash) und Isa Soysal
UniSysCat
Reinventing Nature
At the Unifying Systems in Catalysis (UniSysCat) Cluster of Excellence at the Technische Universität Berlin, scientists research the future of “green chemistry”. The aim of this is to conserve resources, work in an energy-efficient manner and avoid waste.
Temporal Communities
Literature for the Ears: The Temporal Communities Cluster at the Humboldt Lab
With the audio exhibition “Aural Annotations – Literature as an Intermedia Practice”, the “Temporal Communities” Cluster of Excellence at the Freie Universität opens up new perspectives on exhibits in the Humboldt Lab.
Sich verwandt machen
“Play is Worth Taking Seriously”
The Humboldt Lab is not just a physical place you can set foot in and observe. It can also be experienced as a digital space in the form of a game developed by gamelab.berlin, an interdisciplinary research and development platform at the Humboldt-Universität.
Sammlung
Excavations in the Spirit of International Friendship – Archaeology in Sudan
The Humboldt Lab provides insights into research collaboration with a focus on an equal footing right from the start.
Ursula Hintze (c) Sudanarchäologische Sammlung und Archiv, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Photo : Ursula Hintze
Sich verwandt machen
Krickelkrackel and the Opening of an Exhibition
Succeed in placing the exhibits in the right location and you can look forward to an unusual and exciting tour of the Humboldt Lab.
(c) HU
Sammlung
Voices from the Past
By coincidence the great-grandson of a civil servant who made a dialect recording for the Humboldt-Universität’s Sound Archives in the 1930s contacted the Archives – and helped decipher the stories and the conditions behind the recording.
Private Collection
Objekte
Renaissance of the Wrinkled Apple
Models from Arnoldi’s Fruit Cabinet demonstrate in the Humboldt Lab how diverse the range of German varieties could be
Sammlung
The Hahne-Niehoff Archive: History as a Critical Mirror
Photographs from the Hahne-Niehoff Archive provide insights into regional festivals and how ethnologists recorded them in the 1920s to 1940s. They also show the connection between ethnology and the rise of National Socialism.
Sammlung
A Regal Treasure Trove Rediscovered
The Aletsch model was once the main attraction of the Berlin Kunstkammer
Vom Rande
From the edge
Approaching phenomena from their edges (vp, Rande) is like reading against the grain. It brings into view the relationship between "edge" and "center", as well as their respective dependencies on each other. Thinking "from the edge" can also mean challenging the canon and questioning supposed self-evident things. The picture shows an irrigated stone desert and an avocado.
(c) HU Berlin Collage unter Verwendung von Motiven von google maps und Stefan Babanin
Unbehagen
Jade-Green Army of Freedom Fighters
The Spanish artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo is exhibiting in the Humboldt Lab small figures that depict the Tank Man, an icon of the history of democracy. In 1989, during the student protests on Tian’anmen Square, the young man stood in the way of a row of tanks.
Fernando Sánchez Castillo / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / digitale Reproduktion: Jester Blank GbR
Sich verwandt machen
Exploring an Architecture of Knowledge
The ArchitekturenExperimente research group is investigating in the Humboldt Lab the influence that exhibition space design has on conveying the content of an exhibition.
NeuroCure
Expedition to the Nerve Centre of Human Beings
The NeuroCure cluster of excellence of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin takes visitors to the Humboldt Lab on a journey into the human brain and shows how electrical impulses originate shape in the brain.
IRI THESys
"Fascinating and Frigthening at the Same Time"
The HU’s IRI THESys Institute presents in the Humboldt Lab research projects from a connected world.
Zweifel
Doubt
Doubt is a key element of science. It is therefore also one of the terms used to describe the basic attitude of critical thinking in the exhibition in the Humboldt Laboratory. The picture shows the installation "Zweifel" (Doubt) by Lars Ø. Ramberg on the Palast der Republik and the dome of Berlin Cathedral.
(c) HU Berlin using motifs from concoon and Wolfgang Pehlemann (wikimedia)
SCRIPTS
Challenges for Liberal Democracy
The Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS) excellence cluster of Freie Universität Berlin deals with the promises of liberal society. What are they? What problems and conflicts accompany them? And how are liberal democracies responding to current challenges such as the coronavirus epidemic? Are populists or states with authoritarian governments the better crisis managers after all?
Photo: Matthias Heyde
SCRIPTS
Censored Family Life
One Humboldt Lab exhibit is a Children’s Bible from Colonia Dignidad with text passages pasted over. It is one of 38 special individual exhibits presented suspended from the ceiling.
“Shield of Faith” Children’s BiblePhoto: Antonia Weiße
Matters of Activity
Encounter with our Brain’s Digital Twin
At a research station in the Humboldt Lab the Adaptive Digital Twin, a project of the Matters of Activity excellence cluster and the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, will be taking a look at the human brain. Three-dimensional models of the complex organ will be shown as holographic depictions. In clinical practice visualisations of this kind are used in, for example, preparing for surgery.
(c) Lucius Fekonja
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I hope that the Humboldt Lab will provide a fascinating and participatory presentation on the topic of science in our society. A place where visitors and scientists can talk about current topics.
Prof. Dr. John Nyakatura, Matters of Activity
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Unbehagen
Persiflage on the Desire for the Exotic
The Humboldt Lab is exhibiting two works by the Beninese artist Romuald Hazoumè, who makes masks out of old plastic canisters – canisters But a that are used in his country to smuggle petrol in perilous conditions.
Mask "Hope for Bonn" by Romuald Hazoumé. Foto: Martin Baumgart
Sammlung
A Rediscovery
Historic dialect recordings from the Sound Archives will be available to hear at the Humboldt Lab