For the 2012 De Wereld van Witte de With Festival entitled “The Street – Live Issue!” the Witte de With Straat is blocked for traffic for the first time. The space usually occupied by parked and moving cars is given to the people for alternative use and program connected to the festivals topic.

In our project for Hong Kong we have a look on water as a common good. We focus our work around the fountain, as an old tool to provide water to be used by all.

Invided by the Goethe-Institute China we develop a project for the Berlin pavilion of the Shanghai Biennale 2012 based on the story of the architect Richard Paulick (1903-1976).

At the TODAYSART festival in the Hague we build a “Vortex” – a space like a whirlwind from locally available materials.

A 50 meter long temporay staircase leads to the roof of the Alvar-Alto-Kulturhaus in Wolfsburg – following an original idea of Alvar-Alto. The staircaise is not only a “short cut” but also functions as a summer-cafe on the roof.

Die Arbeit “future one”, die raumlaborberlin für die Regionale in Murau in der Steiermark entwickelt hat, besteht aus dem Wort “ZUKUNFT”, das als Schriftzug auf dem abgeholzten Hang am Lärchberg oberhalb der Stadt Murau installiert wird.

Die Große Weltausstellung 2012 is an exposition in 15 pavilions spread across the vast airfield. The project is our statement to the ongoing discussion about the future of the site. Together with HAU (Hebbel Theater Berlin) we´ve invited 15 directors, architects, installation- and performance-artists. They each developed a work for the site and for a pavilion designed by raumlabor.

EMMA is a mobile table that grows and adaptes as needed. For two years EMMA will travel through the Mariannenquarter in Berlin-Kreuzberg and host several events in the courtyards of the neighbourhood.

For NEXT we develop out of basic elements of digital worlds a concept that characterizes a strong two-sidedness: user interface and hardware, scenery and construction, interior and exterior.