Program Overview on the Berlin Science Week Website: Link

NEW DATES IN SPRING 2025

All interested parties from the fields of art, science and society are invited to actively participate in the continuation of the KairosCapsule. We would be also very grateful for any suggestions for financial support and promotion of the formats.

KairosCapsule: Recalibrate your sense of time

Immersive experience and experiential research. Time and space 10 meters below Berlin to challenge assumptions, biases and (mis)perceptions of our time.

Enter the KairosCapsule: An immersive experience and experimental research project

We invite you to participate in an immersive time laboratory that explores the relationship between physical and emotional influences on our perception of time. This project investigates how our senses shape our understanding of reality as we navigate the world.

In the face of today’s social and environmental crises, the complexity and urgency of the challenges we face require us to pause, reflect, and focus on what truly matters. Yet, in our fast-paced, overloaded lives, we often struggle to find time — until it’s too late.

10 meters below the surface of Berlin, closer to the Earth’s center of gravity, time slows down. As David Farrier beautifully puts it: “Time lives in the body, not as the ticking of a clock, but as the pulse of the blood.”

In this very special location below surface and beyond time we invite you to listen to your body and feel the inner clock ticking. Together we will consciously shift from Chronos (chronological time) to Kairos (a collective state of being in the present moment). Making time for the things that really matter.

Join us in the KairosCapsule and become part of a unique, experimental research process, reconnecting cognition with lived experience. Our immersive interventions take you on both individual and collective journeys through light, sound, time, and space, all within a timeless environment. Each experience is designed to explore how time perception, regeneration, and neurobiological patterns intersect.

In parallel to the public lab experiments, we are taking 12 participants on a more intensive study of time perception away from the daily dictates of clocks and commitments. The participants will spend the night awake in the laboratory at 11 degrees celsius in absolute silence and darkness in order to synchronise their perception of time with their individual human sense of time.