Research Unit OpenLAB
Date
Venue
Institution
Programme
Research Unit 1
Thursday, November 27, 2025 - 19:45h
Nave 17
The Research Unit is an experimental line of work at Medialab Matadero that probes the weak signals and emerging imaginaries of a world that hasn’t arrived yet. Its mission is to investigate or envision products and services that link speculation with infrastructure, turning future scenarios into tools for making sense of the present.
In 2025, Medialab tasked Business Serio™ —a Madrid-based agency for thought, creativity, and cultural action — with coordinating the Research Unit. Medialab gave them one mission: build a creative commando unit capable of spotting traces of strange technological presents, and accelerating them.
Business Serio™ with Ana Petra Moriyón, Clara Escalera, Fermín Zabala, Elena Zaghis, Fran Grima, Danya Orlovsky
The Sunsetting Project
Friday, November 29, 2025 - 19:45h
Casa del Lector Auditorium
The Sunsetting Project designs recovery technology for organizations moving beyond burnout economies. They develop systems for structured rest, corporate deceleration and workforce regeneration at scale. Productivity has a new architecture built on pause, return and endurance.
Eurocore - A workshop about volatile aesthetics and geopolitical moods
Saturday, November 29, 2025 - 16:00h
Nave 17 Terrario
Eurocore treats Europe as an emerging field of volatile aesthetics, where the constant circulation and mutation of coded imaginaries stoke uncertainty and fuel authoritarian fantasies. This micro-experimental project uses the very language of the networks to observe how our understanding of propaganda is shifting: from a traditional top-down model to an ambient, subliminal persuasion that doesn’t flow like a message, but like a vibe.
WARMONY - Killing is Obsolete
Saturday, November 29, 2025 - 17:00h
Nave 17 Terrario
Warmony is a defense platform for the post-lethal era. Autonomous systems detect, isolate and neutralize threats while keeping them visible to public record. Warfare becomes design: measurable, traceable and accountable. Welcome to the new survival: control, exposure and recovery.
The End of Death
Saturday, November 29, 2025 - 18:45h
Casa del Lector Auditorium
The End of Death is a public archive that documents the contemporary redefinition of death. We collect and share audiovisual records of emerging practices related to immortality, including cryonics, AI legacies, digital cemeteries, posthuman memorials, transhumanist conventions and new spiritual infrastructures.