Trust

Our shared workspace in Berlin is looking for new members! Join and co-conspire with a community of artists, designers and researchers in Schöneberg. There are multiple membership tiers – dm us or reach out to reach out to [email protected] for more info or to request a visit. Founded in 2017, Trust is a knowledge community and collective project for the research, development, and maintenance of shared infrastructure and imaginaries. The Trust IRL space is also home to our lecture program and the Cybernetic library.

ℐ𝒻 𝒯𝓇𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓁𝒾ℴ𝓃 𝒻𝒶𝓃𝓈, 𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓃 ℐ 𝒶𝓂 ℴ𝓃ℯ ℴ𝒻 𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓂. Let the world know how much you love Trust and help us raise funds to keep the network thriving. We’re offering the TSHIRTs on a sliding scale, allowing you to contribute as much as you’re able. Trust is an autonomous and independent organization, and all our activities are funded by our members. Link in bio ⛓️‍💥👕

Knitting Circle is back for the fall, every second Wednesday at Trust (🧶_🧶) All crafts welcome! Find us in the knitting circle channel on discord for chats and updates ♡

Dreamwork An Artist Workshop into the Creative Shadow w/ BEA1991 IRL ⌂ Sunday, May 10th 14:00 – 17:00 CEST Kluckstraße 25, 10785 Berlin Drawing on Jungian dream analysis, the language of geology, modern interpretations of Animism, Pantheism and Immanence, Bea weaves various toolkits together with her more instinctive practice as an autodidact musician, designer and artist counsellor. Over three hours, fellow artists are invited into introspective landscapes of Creative Individuation. Through group and solo exercises, we peel back the Artist Ego, explore hidden judgements around inner creativity, and bring into focus what is wanting to emerge ~ while actively protecting what wants to remain mysterious. RSVP to [email protected] | 20€ — Bea has creatively counseled for brands and artists like Andrew Callaghan (Channel 5), design staff at Potatohead Bali and ECCO Leather, musicians at The London Contemporary Orchestra and at educational institutes like the Sandberg Institute, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Goldsmiths University and the Conservatorium Amsterdam.

The Pixel Prize Exhibition with 0xfff, Paul Seidler and Iannis Bardakos & Louis Parker Organised by JUST Open Source Stiftung IRL ⌂ Opening Friday, May 1st - 15:00 – 20:00 CEST Running 1–3 May, 11:00–18:00

Superstorm Monday 9 March - 19:00CET Trust Discord Design and Politics in the Age of Information w/ @noemi.biasetton Co-hosted by @_lauracugusi_ The Superstorm is a conceptual and narrative metaphor to illustrate the evolution of the relationship between political communication and new media technologies, which culminated in the tempestuous Western political visual culture of today. Within this vortex, complex and unexpected events occur, where politics is mixed with entertainment and communication is hyper-mediated through algorithms, memes and alternative realities. As politicians refine marketing techniques applied to the electorate and online users become political trendsetters, designers face an impasse. But not all is lost in the Superstorm. Surprisingly, it might precisely be this uncertain future that holds the key for designers to question and reformulate their role and purpose within the political sphere. In her first book Superstorm: Design and Politics in the Age of Information, Noemi Biasetton traces the development of the Superstorm from the 1960s to the present and proposes new coordinates that designers may consider in order to, eventually, face its relentless evolution. Join the event via the Trust Discord server (:link: in bio)

An Update on Policing in Berlin Monday, January 19th - 19:00 CET Kluckstraße 25, 10785 Berlin Join us for a discussion with experts on the meaning and impact of new legislation coming into force this month ("ASOG" or Allgemeines Gesetz zum Schutz der öffentlichen Sicherheit und Ordnung), which ranges from allowing AI on Berlin surveillance cameras to use of fatal force Entry is by donation, all € will go to 3ezwa and no one will be turned away for lack of funds

Uninsurable Futures Revisiting the Politics of Anticipation with Patricia Reed IRL ⌂ Thurs 18 December – doors open 19:30 CET – Trust, Berlin 5€ (free for members) STREAM • Thurs 18 December – event starts 20:00 CET – Twitch Trust invites theorist, artist, and designer Patricia Reed to revisit some of the theoretical work she developed around finance, anticipation, and futurity over the past decade. Her 2018 text « Optimist Realism: Finance and the Politicization of Anticipation » explored how finance captured the future through derivatives and credit, operationalizing what hadn’t yet happened to reshape the present. She’ll revisit Suhail Malik’s « Surfeit Futurity, » (2021) which argued we face not a cancellation of the future but an overwhelming excess of it. More futurity than our present capacities can order or give meaning to. How do these frameworks hold up against current conditions? Does hyperstition—fictions that make themselves real—still describe what’s happening when certain futures are no longer speculative gambles, but too likely to insure? This is less a presentation than an attempt to think together through shifting ground. Patricia Reed is a theorist, artist, and designer living in Berlin. Her work addresses social transformations of coexistence at planetary dimensions, focusing on the interactions between world-models and practices of inhabitation. She is Head of the Critical Inquiry Lab (MA) Department at Design Academy Eindhoven, and a lecturer at Folkwang University. Recent essays have appeared in Informatics of Domination (2025) Pierre Huyghe: Liminal (2024), Navigation beyond Vision (2023), and Ceremony: Burial of an Undead World (2022). As Laboria Cuboniks, Reed is co-author of Xenofeminist Manifesto, which was republished by Verso in 2018. A Spanish anthology of her essays entitled Cosmovisiones de otro mundo has been published by Holobionte Ediciones (2025).

Lecture performance: Perversion of Science by Madeleine Andersson & Mandus Ridefelt Tueday, December 16th 19:00CET Trust Discord Server The history of science is one of the normative. What happens when you are obsessed with the norm? It quickly turns to the question of the anomaly. Join artist Madeleine Andersson and biologist/writer/artist Mandus Ridefelt for Perversion of Science, a lecture performance obsessed with the anomalous. We will trace scientific methodology shifts according to what our idea of a legible experiment is - impacting on the ways experiments are designed. We observe, lick and poke at the existential dimensions of self-experimentation and place the pervert as the antagonist of a kind of knowledge that doesn’t accept boundaries, be they ethical, planetary or of the self. Madeleine Andersson is an artist based in Copenhagen, with a research-based practice positioned at the intersection of science and pop culture. The work by Andersson has previously exhibited at Kunsthall Trondheim (2025), Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm (2025), O–Overgaden, Copenhagen (2024), documenta institute, Kassel (2024), Vermillion Sands, Copenhagen (2024) and Färgfabriken,Stockholm (2023). Mandus Ridefelt is a writer and science communicator living in Copenhagen. His work concerns science, art and philosophy as conceptual constellations and infrastructural speculation. He has worked with a range of organizations including International Society for Artificial Life, Index Foundation (SE), Society for Multidisciplinary and Fundamental Research, Diakron (DK), Medialab Matadero (ES), Simiyya (EG/DK).

Culture and Creative R&D Monday, December 15th - 19:30 Kluckstraße 25, 10785 Berlin A Conspirator’s Forum w/ Future Art Ecosystems, Trust, Nick Houde & friends What does art do? What is creative R&D? Cultural producers are being pushed to explain not just what they make, but how they matter – economically, socially, politically – inside the systems they’re entwined with. Join us next Monday for an open forum on creative R&D – a distinct domain where artistic experimentation, advanced technologies and cross-sector collaboration function as infrastructure for societal innovation and public value.

HARDCODED: Mechanisms and aesthetics of online radicalisation w/ Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Cade Diehm IRL ⌂ Thurs 13 November – 19:30 CET – Trust, Berlin 5€ (free for members) STREAM • Thurs 13 November – 20:00 CEST Twitch: itch.tv/trust_support Next week at Trust, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Cade Diehm will present work about the aesthetics and mechanisms of online radicalisation. Danielle’s latest commission for Serpentine is a multiplayer immersive game and theater experience that explores themes of polarisation, censorship and social connection. These processes unfold in our online lives and the sub-groups and communities (like Trust) that we all belong to. When artists engage with new technologies and internet cultures, they are often accused of proximity with an emergent new right-wing, sometimes positioned against the caricature of the leftist, immobilised by the sticky substance of criticism. Cade and Danielle will discuss how aesthetics travel and can be hijacked, and the ways they obscure or reprogram existing power relations. They will be our guides in exploring the interaction between the technical and aesthetic, and the potential for political struggle – asking if politics can be hardcoded into aesthetics, games, or infrastructure.

Late Futurism Tuesday 11 November - 7PM CET The Future as a Mode of the Present w/ Silvio Lorusso In this talk, Silvio Lorusso examines how visions of the future have flattened into a managerial present shaped by "late futurists", that is, experts posing as visionaries. Drawing on authors and thinkers like J.G. Ballard, Franco "Bifo" Berardi and Cornelius Castoriadis, Lorusso makes a distinction between the future and the new, exposing the professionalisation of imagination and proposing an estrangement of the present as a way for someone – perhaps not us – to reclaim radical possibility. Silvio Lorusso is an Italian writer, artist and designer based in Lisbon, Portugal. He published Entreprecariat (Onomatopee) in 2019 and What Design Can’t Do (Set Margins’) in 2023. Lorusso is an assistant professor at the Lusófona University in Lisbon and a tutor at the Information Design department of Design Academy Eindhoven. He holds a Ph.D. in Design Sciences from the Iuav University of Venice. This event will take place in the Trust Discord, Join via link in bio 🔗