Forecast Festival

Forecast Festival

Forecast offers artists and creative thinkers from anywhere in the world the chance to work with

accomplished mentors toward bringing their projects to fruition. As an international mentorship

program with annual editions, Forecast transcends neatly defined disciplines and genres to

provide insight into creative production processes and carve out space for the questions on the

minds of the next generation of trailblazers. Each year, creative minds working in various

disciplines are invited to submit project proposals via an open call. The selection process is two-

tiered. First, the mentors carefully review all proposals and invite three nominees each to

workshop with the mentor and present their ideas at the Forecast Forum in Berlin. At the Forum’s

conclusion, each mentor chooses one mentee. The six mentees receive extended mentoring

including a work-stay, in which mentor and mentee meet in person for up to two weeks of intensive

exchange, usually with a host institution. At the end of the mentorship phase, the six mentees

present their final productions to the public at the Forecast Festival.

Collaboration with LINA Fellows

We invited the LINA Fellows Adam Przywara, Dérive, Elena Agudio Sierra, RadioLina, and

wit(h)nessing to host a rich program of activations proposing viable prototypes for a future human and nonhuman habitat as part of the Forecast Festival. The LINA Fellows' program included BerLINights: Mapping safety after dark, an exploratory nighttime walk with architect Elena Agudo Sierra; Mountains of Berlin: Documenting Landfills of Postwar Rubble, a walk by Adam Przywara and Jonathan Banz exploring artificial hills around Berlin made of war rubble; The Joy of Constructing Situations, a Situationist workshop by Dérive; (UN)COMMON THREADS, a workshop and speculative storytelling game by Wit(h)nessing; and RADIO LINA, a sound installation by Atelier Remoto + AlteSfere.

The chosen LINA Fellows all have a unique approach spatial experimentation through collaboration (which they share with the mission of LINA itself), and we invited them to further implement this at our Forecast Festival.

Elena Agudo-Sierra: BerLINights: Mapping safety after dark

Elena Agudio Sierra, art historian and curator, invited participants of her workshop to analyze Berlin in terms of safety and vulnerability after dark through an explorative nighttime walk, the application of collective mapping techniques, and the analysis of both objective and subjective data. The participants used tools such as physical tagging, puzzle scanning, and/or WebGIS. Through personal reflections and group discussions, the participants created a collective manifesto to visualize a safer urban night world.

Adam Przywara: Mountains of Berlin: Documenting Landfills of Postwar Rubble

The architecture historian and curator Adam Przywara examined a so-called Trümmerberg (an artificial mountain created from the rubble leftover by World War II) in Volkspark Friedrichshain with his workshop. Following a historical contextualization of the Trümmerberg, which was created from the remains of a bunker, the workshop participants used laser technology to scan the interior of the mountain. This way, the workshop participants acquired technical know-how and gained historical knowledge.

Dérive: The Joy of Constructing Situations

The group Dérive, consisting of the duo Hedwig van der Linden and Kevin Westerveld, are inspired by the Situationist International. Their workshop was a vibrant homage to the work 'Dwellings' by Charles Simonds and created various situations in and around the Radialsystem. They created their own imaginative worlds through the method of model building and stacking.

RADIO LINA, a sound installation by Atelier Remoto + AlteSfere

Lara Monacelli Bani (Atelier Remoto) and Jacopo Biffi (AlteSfere) built a sound installation in the cellar of the Radialsystem as well as various audio stations outside and within the building under the project name Radio LINA. There, visitors could listen to recordings of their journey through southern Europe, which they had recorded as part of the Periple Duet format of the Lisbon Architecture Triennial. The journey, like the audio excerpts, revolved around the word ‘conviviality’:they visited and spent time with various communities, associations and individuals and explored with them what conviviality means.

wit(h)nessing: (UN)COMMON THREADS

The duo wit(h)nessing (Giga Tsikarishvili and Tatuli Japoshvili) developed a speculative storytelling game in their workshop where participants collaboratively create alternative narratives by immersing themselves in human and non-human stories, realities, and virtualities that shape various spaces and worlds. Using image and text cards, players wove stories that reveal overlooked perspectives, strange relationships, or hidden connections, thus opening up ways to reimagine future scenarios. The game promotes creative thinking in different contexts and invites participants to think beyond the limitations of the present.