Journal

As 2018 is coming to a close, we’re happy to announce a few exciting updates for the coming year. First, Forecast has a new institutional partner: starting in 2019, the Forecast Forum and the Forecast Festival will take place at Radialsystem, Berlin’s interdisciplinary space for art and ideas on the banks of the river Spree. … Continued

  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. Greeted … Continued

The third edition of the Forecast Festival presents six pioneering projects created and developed by emerging practitioners along with their mentors.     Friday, October 12 6 pm Opening 6:30 pm Eglė Budvytytė Shakers, Lovers, Bystanders Performance in public space [part of Abhijan Toto‘s The Exhaustion Project] With Sasha Amaya, Alexander Blum Bertelsen, Johanna Faber, Zoe Goldstein, … Continued

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. Their project … Continued

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. The multichannel piece will blend the distinctive voices of different characters, and include the internal monologues of a spaceship, the … Continued

  Welcome. Make yourself comfortable. What’s a comfort zone? Does your comfort level depend on access to high‑speed WiFi?There is no WiFi here. FORGIVE-US. What brought you here? Did you see the flags? Or maybe you noticed the infrared painting at the entrance? Of course not, how could you? What’s Living Matter? Are you also … Continued

At the forecast Festival, the Seoul-based musician MIIIN will perform a live score of tracks, titled A Music Report on the Human Species: Beyond Extinction, that sonically depict historical events. She envisions the composition as a warning addressed at a future intelligent being to not repeat the mistakes of the human race. For the visual layer of … Continued

Augustijn is the title of a multichannel installation by artist Omar A. Chowdhury, based on his real-life chance encounter with a young Belgian man called Stijn, short for Augustijn, and the relationship the two have developed since then. The charismatic Stijn is a recent convert to Islam, and his devotion comes to the fore when … Continued

In the weeks following the Forecast Forum, Kolkata-based curator Abhijan Toto and his mentor, David Elliott, defined the main themes that run through Toto’s ongoing curatorial investigations in The Exhaustion Project. Each of the artists included in the latest iteration of the project devised by Toto, and which will be on view during the Forecast … Continued

  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. Gaining access to the museum’s storage rooms, Stam was … Continued

Forecast is pleased to announce the kickoff of Housing the Human, a collaborative interdisciplinary project involving leading European institutions and organizations that revolves around the question what might it mean to house the human—today and in the future. Housing the Human focuses on developing methods for practical futurology—a semantic paradox that the project seeks to … Continued

From May 7 to May 12, Forecast and Haus der Kulturen der Welt welcomed 18 artists, musicians, producers, and collectives to the Forecast Forum, an intensive four days of workshops with their mentors, followed by two days of public presentations and discussions. At the end of the action-packed public weekend, the mentors each selected one … Continued

Artist Laura Lima often uses immaterial phenomena and living matter as the basis of her artworks. She also defined the category of her mentorship at Forecast as Living Matter, explaining that “living matter can be an idea, inanimate material; or it can also be fiction, a philosophical matter, an invention, a new possibility of working … Continued

Forecast is pleased to announce the participants in this year’s edition of the Forecast Forum. A total of 18 projects have been selected out of more than 390 applications from around the world. The six distinguished mentors of Forecast’s third iteration have each chosen three projects that they will accompany in the upcoming months, culminating … Continued

Innovators from around the world, working in a vast variety of disciplines, were asked to submit their project ideas to Forecast. More than 393 applicants from over 200 cities responded to the international Open Call and submitted their proposals to one of the six mentors. The range of applications has again exceeded all expectations, showing … Continued

The call for proposals for Forecast’s third edition is now online. The Forecast process is one of mutual engagement, where mentees from any country, background, and discipline can use their imaginations to tackle pressing questions. How should the future look? Six mentors, leaders in their respective fields, will support these innovators: museum director Tulga Beyerle … Continued