28.03.26 – 8.04.26 Visiting Ella Raidel en Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) for exchange and immersive storytelling workshop on emancipation of women in Academia.
1.03.26. SPACE is organizing a De Laatste Mens walk, followed by a discussion afterwards. We gather at 11:00 at Rembo (the “strange green human” sculpture) in Rembrandt park. Please bring your phone + earphones/headphones.From there, everyone sets off on their own. The experience lasts about 40 minutes. From 12:00, there will be a discussion with a drink and small snacks at Supermercator (Mercatorplein 3H, 1057 BX Amsterdam, about an 8-minute walk from Rembo).
13.12.25, 11:00–13:00 Launch of De Laatste Mens (Dutch-language version) at Het Glazen Huis at Zone2Source in Amstelpark. We begin with a listening and viewing experience about how the park might change if it were allowed to follow its own course. After that, Martijn Huting will place De Laatste Mens in the tradition of earlier “last humans,” such as those of Nietzsche and Fukuyama, whose visions now seem to have reached a dead end. Alongside future memories, there will be coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and Christmas bread.
24.10.25 ZIP-Scene Conference: Sensory F(r)ictions: How Can Immersive Storytelling Reclaim Agency and Reconnect Us with Overlooked Realities?
11.10.25 The Last Human Sneak Preview – Audio walk and artist talk For 24Zuid, theatremaker Petra Ardai / SPACE will introduce the work at 15.00, offering context before or after you enter this visionary fiction experience, as the audio teaser will be accessible the whole day. Petra Ardai (concept, text, voice), David van der Heijden (sound and music).
10.11.25 19:00 CET Salon Mercator r is a space where a diverse group of people with expertise and interest come together to discuss their projects, research, stories, passions, fascinations, and experiments. This time, artist, theater maker, and screenwriter Petra Ardai, who specializes in immersive and interdisciplinary storytelling, takes us on a journey through her project “The Last Human.” In collaboration with Martijn Hunting More about this project
6 -7.09.25 Homo Sentient AI in de spotlight. During Phoney Island Fest, we’re switching our acclaimed audio work Homo Sentient AI by David van de Heijden & Petra Ardai back on — originally made for ROBOT LOVE (Dutch Design Week 2022). Bilingual: Dutch–EnglishBilingual Dutch – English. Listen here.
Europe Day 2025: Exploring Culture as Civic Space As part of the recently concluded Common Ground Dialogues project, SPACE was honored to take part in the panel discussion “Cultural Spaces as Civic Spaces – and Why We Need Them.” We shared small but meaningful examples of how culture can serve as a catalyst for civic participation, empathy, and shared understanding across diverse communities. The event was initiated by DutchCulture | Creative Europe Desk NL, EIT Culture & Creativity (EIT CC) and the European Cultural Foundation
19.05 – 24.05.25 TITANIUM WORKSHOP, Füge, Jurányi Ház, Budapest Intensive workshop and coaching sessions on how to work with personal stories on stage with young theatre professionals. Boglárka Ferenczy-Nagy: Liturgia (Venue: Trafó House of Contemporary Arts) Laura Podlovics: MOONLIGHT PICTURES (Venue: Jurányi House) Rudolf Varga-Amár: Ölelésben elaludni (Venue: B32 Gallery and Cultural Space)Szandi Vass: Peti’s Spaceship (Venue: MU Theater)
6.05.-7.05,25 THE STOP BUTTON WORKSHOP – Arts-Science University of Helsinki Legal Tech Lab, Faculty of Law Drawing from socio-legal studies on law, technology, and society, Science and technology studies (STS) and speculative arts, we examine in this workshop how law, technologies and human action have become entwined and inseparable. During the workshop, we engage in scientific discussions and artistic play to explore the relationship between humans and machines. A common starting point and anchor to these explorations, is found in the notion of control and how it materialises in the form of a ‘stop’ button in European technology regulation. To use but not to use – the inherent tension in technology regulation and aspiration towards control.
Rehearsing The Revolution online #3 Wholeness and Fragmentation
In de online series of Rehearsing the Revolution SPACE invites guests to unveil the reality through fiction.
When is a story complete? What is the truth? How does fragmentation influences our perception of what is real and what is not? More about this project
Rehearsing The Revolutiononline #4 Decolonizing Narratives- Cyprus- Hungary – The Netherlands| Politics
In de online series of Rehearsing the Revolution SPACE invites guests to unveil the reality through fiction.
Rehearsing The Revolution online #5 Assumptions versus Dialogues
In the online series of Rehearsing the Revolution SPACE invites guests to unveil reality through fiction.
We immerse in storytelling with the explicit intention for visioning beyond the current world, challenging mainstream power dynamics and ideals, making new just worlds as tangible as possible in our fantasy. Step into the world of visionary fiction, decolonize the imagination, think long term, feel connected to other humans, lifeforms, landscapes, embrace the commons, explore the past and the future in the continuum of the present.
Rehearsing The Revolutiononline #6 Narratives of a Pluriform Locally Rooted but Globally Solidair and inclusive Europe
In the online series of Rehearsing the Revolution SPACE invites guests to unveil reality through fiction.
We immerse in storytelling with the explicit intention for visioning beyond the current world, challenging mainstream power dynamics and ideals, making new just worlds as tangible as possible in our fantasy. Step into the world of visionary fiction, decolonize the imagination, think long term, feel connected to other humans, lifeforms, landscapes, embrace the commons, explore the past and the future in the continuum of the present.
22 Oktober
Rehearsing The Revolution
Warming up Festival, Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam
11:00 – 17:00 | Rehearsing the Revolution | presentation and practice for change with Petra Ardai during Warming up festival in the Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, a festival about art and climate change. Would you like to participate in the workshop/presentation? Sign up with the link below or send us an email! More about this project
8,9,10 Oktober
Rehearsing The Revolution
Performance, Buffer Fringe Festival, Cyprus
In Rehearsing The Revolution we discover reality from different points of view. In the bufferzone of Cyprus we will work with artists from this area in search of stories which connect us and which we want to leave behind during the Buffer Fringe Festival
More about this project
19-25 July
Rehearsing The Revolution, Cyprus, Buffer Fringe Festival, Nicosia Cyprus
We work with creators, artist an other makers in this zone . What does it mean to work in this area and what role do stories play in conflict situations? Can we change the story?
13-16 July
Rehearsing The Revolution – Hongarije, Füge, Budapest, Hungary
Rehearsing the Revolution is present in Budapest where we work with Füge, an independent production house and umbrella organisation in Budapest. More about this project
21-25 June
Oeduverse, Summer School, online
De OEduverse Summer School helps European PHD students to shape their ideal research environment. SPACE collaborates by moderating this Summer School and organises the workshop: Own your Story: how to use storytelling in science communication. More about this project & OEduverse
17 June
Rehearsing The Revolution online #2 Legacy and Responsibility
In de online series of Rehearsing the Revolution SPACE invites guests to unveil the reality through fiction. This episode we investigate the role stories play when it comes to legacy and responsibility.
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15 June
Nursing AI in collaboration with University of Heidelberg online
Nursing AI is an international research and design project in which Petra Ardai/SPACE – as the only artist in the consortium – will design a workshop based on the method of immersive collaborative storytelling.
9 June
Plurality University Agora, How can we make Narratives More Plural?
Let’s think about the value of plurality in stories. How important is the diversity of stories, and the diversity of the ones creating and spreading them? Is there such a thing as too many stories?
5,6, 8 June
Rehearsing The Revolution Rotterdams Wijktheater
In Rehearsing The Revolution ten former players will depart on a quest to find a theatrical vaccin for the growing polarisation in our society. At the New Makers Festival Rotterdams Community Theatre.
1 June
Nursing AI, Intervention in collaboration with UvA online
Nursing AI is an international research and design project in which Petra Ardai/SPACE – as the only artist in the consortium – will design a workshop based on the method of immersive collaborative storytelling.
29,30 May
Rehearsing The Revolution Rotterdams Wijktheater
In Rehearsing The Revolution ten former players will depart on a quest to find a theatrical vaccin for the growing polarisation in our society. At the New Makers Festival Rotterdams Community Theatre.
1/5 and 24/25April
Rehearsing the Revolution working session, Tolhuistuin
What will the world look like if the sea determines which rhythm we follow, if the care robots want to save humanity at all costs, the chickens offer practical solutions and the children of the future take the blame?
2020
Eindpresentatie Rehearsing The Revolution Rotterdam
In Rehearsing The Revolution ten former players will depart on a quest to find a theatrical vaccin for the growing polarisation in our society. At the New Makers Festival Rotterdams Community Theatre.
23 oktober t/m 1 november
(IM)POSSIBLE BODIES
On Friday 23 October (IM)POSSIBLE BODIES, successor to ROBOT LOVE, opens the offline and online festival where you experience Al, cyborgs, data, digital twins and robots.
Join us on a journey of discovery among cyborgs and discover that we have been cyborgs for a long time, and how the new reality that technology brings us will shape our future of living and working.
October 27 ,28, 29, 30 and November 1
Rehearsing The Revolution – Almere
The revolution starts in Almere! As part of Corrosia Square, SPACE is making Rehearsing the Revolution. This international theater project about the future of the world has its premiere in Almere..
November 4
A Fair Share of Utopia
‘If you would die today and reincarnate one generation later, in what world would you want to be born, regardless of where or who you are?’ This is the question posed to the artists of ‘A Fair Share of Utopia’ and inspired them to create new works for Nest and CBK Zuidoost.
Find more information here.