Join the discourse around various local, national and internationals topics with experts from the field during the recurring talkshow STATEMENTS, delve deeper into the toolkit of Zoöp during the live research initiative Research Nights or celebrate the opening of the exhibition in which nominees of the Prix de Rome Architecture 2022 share their perspectives on healing sites.

Aminata Cairo tells us about her take on inclusion, using music, dance and words, during this interactive evening. Plus, Research Nights returns with a roundtable discussion exploring the regenerative retail concept of New Store.

An evening of books and moving images. Designer Irma Boom talks about her latest publication and we explore artistic interventions in the archive and join a manifestation.

What would an architect do for the chance to build the world's tallest building? And how would it be if people were just 50cm tall? Experience an evening of contrasts with Arne Hendriks and Deyan Sudjic.

Meet Het Nieuwe Instituut's Maike van Stiphout and learn more about the Zoöp, a new organisational model that prioritises all life, not just humans. Then bring all your plant-related questions to the session on Green Inclusivity. Plus a Collecting Otherwise Round Table and the book launch of A Radical Vision by OPEN.

In collaboration with the Ambasz Institute / Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, US) Het Nieuwe Instituut is hosting Material Worlds: Solar, exploring the use of the sun as a source material. Plus a chance to meet Solar Biennale creators Pauline van Dongen and Marjan van Aubel.

Makers and digital fabricators explore the possibilities of ceramic 3D-printing as a 21st-century craft. Join moderator Jasper de Haan and the guest speakers for conversations about artistic research, critical reflection and ways to apply 3D-printing in clay to your own practice.

Sophie Krier and Erik Wong, curators of the exhibition In Search of the Pluriverse, invite visitors to join an evening on the ‘invisible threads’ that hold a community or a group together, and on textile as our first home – a home to dwell in or to take along on the road. With artist and researcher Joke Robaard and Arc Architects owner Tom Morton.

Together with Richard Vijgen, Foeke Postma (Bellingcat), Martina Zaharieva and Cristina Colonnesi (BabyFace Reader), we take a look at the future of image and facial recognition by computers. What does artificial intelligence do when ‘looking’? Who, what and how can a computer actually see and recognise things? What applications of image recognition by AI can we expect in the future? And how will we deal with them?

On the occasion of the release of jaune, geel, gelb, yellow. Monochrome by artist Antonis Pittas, publishing house Jap Sam Books will hold a special book event with the artist at Het Nieuwe Instituut as part of Thursday Night Live! With contributions from Dirk van den Heuvel, Anne Hoogewoning and Alex Farrar. 

Het Nieuwe Instituut celebrates the launch of Disegno’s spring 2022 edition, Disegno #32, and Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Design Drafts’ open call for up-and-coming design writers, in collaboration with the London-based magazine.

In the third and closing iteration of the Colonial Spectres series, researcher Theo Paijmans and filmmaker Janilda Bartolomeu will provide an in depth look at how the rise of Spiritism in the Netherlands coincided with the Dutch colonial occupation of Indonesia. They will continue to discuss how Couperus' novel serves as a departure point to address how spectres arise from both colonial oppression and colonial guilt.

Ardeth (Architectural Design Theory) is a magazine dedicated to the power of project in architecture. The eight issue, titled BURN-OUT, was co-edited by Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Research Department, Marina Otero Verzier and Katía Truijen, and features contributions by former Research Fellows and RESOLVE Collective. Join us for a celebratory launch event with talks and discussions on burn-out.

During this edition of the Thursday Night Workshop, Het Nieuwe Instituut will become the stage for a tantalizing Shibari night curated by Manuela Gonçalves Tavares. Together with other experienced creatives from the scene, she will teach attendees all about Shibari, a Japanese art form that uses ropes to foster intimacy between its practitioners. Attendees are invited to participate and experience Shibari firsthand during a Rope Jam. The night will be concluded with a bondage art performance.

Journalist Tara Lewis hosts this Design Dialogue about artificial intelligence in research, design and the visual arts. She talks to three very different guests – Alice Bucknell, Tivon Rice and Richard Vijgen – whose work using AI is currently on show at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Together, they look at their artistic practice ‘through artificial eyes’.

What kind of infrastructures support doing research in collective and public ways? Three international groups, all Het Nieuwe Instituut fellows of the past year, share their approach to transforming institutes. During this evening, the soft closing of the Fellowship Programme 2021 at Het Nieuwe Instituut, the audience is invited to join the conversation with the institute's current fellows: MELT, The School of Mutants and Tropic Fever. This event is moderated by Delany Boutkan and Federica Notari. 

Join this experimental, hybrid event, in which you are invited to take a guided tour through Enter, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s online platform. Travelling from ‘room’ to ‘room’ together with Florian van Zandwijk, Aileen Ye and various guests, you will make new discoveries and share ideas, laughs and conversation.

In the light of International Women's Day 2022, this evening marked the National Collection's acquisition of women architects' archives from the early 20th century with a symbolic hand-over by Elske Schreuder. The stories uncovered by the invited researchers illuminate the hitherto hidden roles of women in architecture, planning and design. With contributions from Hetty Berens, Erica Smeets-Klokgieters, María Novas Ferradás, Veerle Alkemade and Catherine Koekoek, the evening was moderated by Lidewij Tummers.

In the second event in the Colonial Spectres series, researcher and filmmaker Janilda Bartolomeu talks to filmmaker and professor Sophia Siddique Harvey and film studies professor Rosalind Galt about the position of women in Indonesia during the Dutch occupation.

Sea levels are rising. A rise of one metre would cause millions of people to lose their homes, fleeing the water as their land becomes uninhabitable. In this live edition of The One Minutes hosted by Het Nieuwe Instituut, we look at the sea through the eyes of young people from the Maldives, novelist Alma Mathijsen, Maltese NGO Kinemastik, musician Imyenayare of the Ka'lina Terewuyu people and many others.

Speaker, academic and storyteller Aminata Cairo reads from her recently published book Holding Space, in which she explains her own approach to inclusion. As with the book, this presentation is an experience: with music, dance and words, Cairo involves everyone present in the joint pursuit of an equal space where everyone is valued.

In the Significant Content event series, popular creators from various social media platforms talk about the artistry behind their work. This edition features two Instagram meme pages @this.and.a.blunt and @joan.of.arca.

The research project Submerged Heritage pivots around the Brokopondo water reservoir in Suriname, which was created to power the modern hunger for aluminium. Researchers Daphne Bakker, Miguel Peres dos Santos and Vincent van Velsen talk about the project on stage in Rotterdam, while Mimi Sheller delivers a remote lecture on her book Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity.

The One Minutes Series for November and December is curated by artist Madison Bycroft. The selected videos are a response to Bycroft’s open call on the topic of double-speak, duplicity and ambivalence: Forked Tongue. 

For the first event in the Colonial Spectres series, researcher and filmmaker Janilda Bartolomeu is joined by historian Caroline Drieënhuizen, curator Amanda Pinatih and scholar Robin Hartanto Honggare. They will discuss the contested histories of object collection in, during and after Dutch colonial rule in the former Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and how this practice helped forge Dutch identity.

Current Obsessions invites four of the participating artists of the exhibition GEM Z: The Farthest from Earth We've Ever Been, currently on display in Gallery 3 By You in Het Nieuwe Instituut. In addition to the GEM Z artists, Grammy nominated filmmaker Andrew Thomas Huang will join the talk. Huang was one of the tutors of the programme and will shed a light on his multidisciplinary practice in which he crafts hybrid worlds rooted in Sinofuturist folklore, mysticism and spiritual realism.

Parallel to the exhibition The Architecture of Staged Realities, the second event in this series will delve deeper into storytelling, identity and multivocality (multiple voices). With contributions by visual artist Rachel Stella Jenkins, University of Toronto professor Nicholas Sammond, and architecture historian Lara Schrijver. The evening will be moderated by Hasna El Maroudi.

In the first event in the Social Talks series, we revisit the century-old concept of the ‘minimum dwelling’ in the light of today’s urgent housing shortage. Conditions and living patterns have radically shifted over the past 100 years, but could this historic formula be a solution to modern problems? With contributions by Golnar Abbasi and Arvand Pourabbasi (WORKNOT!), and Giovanna Borasi (director of CCA). The evening will be moderated by Tara Lewis.

Parallel to the exhibition The Architecture of Staged Realities, this event will delve deeper into mediation, identity and architecture. Architecture historian Léa-Catherine Szacka talks about mediated architecture, ideas and ideologies captured in a facade, and the narratives that play out in (real) architectural neighbourhoods. Architect and activist Adam Nathaniel Furman looks at the conditions of representation and how an alternative to heteronormative imagery influences the expressive facade. With a contribution by architect and planner Jaakko van 't Spijker. 

During the third public gathering of Collecting Otherwise, the audience is invited to join the conversation. Which alternative methodologies can enrich the archives of the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning? And how do we collect otherwise, including other points of view? Invited speakers Jos Boys (Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative/UCL) Mitchell Esajas, Nychenda Fecunda (The Black Archives), Aska Welford, Rika Theo (UvA) and Working Group members Micheal Karabinos and Harriet Rose Morley, will join the discussions on case studies presented during the event.

Leading up to Set Stage Screen: A Situated Video Channel, this online programme on 24 September invites artists and filmmakers Hannah Dawn Henderson, Safiq Nasution, Natalia Papaeva, Ashley Röttjers and Geo Wyeth & Jay Tan to introduce and reflect upon their work and the use of film and video, each using their own audiovisual languages and video format. 

Lietje Bauwens and Wouter De Raeve present their film WTC A Love Story during this Thursday Night Live! Through the fictionalised story of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers in Brussels, the film explores public participation in urban redevelopment. Jack Segbars will then lead a discussion about the ‘WTC method’ and how it might be used in cases such as the redevelopment of Rotterdam’s Tweebos neighbourhood.

Recent alumni of the WdKA/PZI present their design research in Once Upon a Time After. For the Master's in Design at WdKA/PZI, students conduct design research into current and relevant issues. Authorship and participation go hand in hand, in order to arrive at designed solutions. Find out how recent alumni achieved this, and how they followed up their graduation.

The One Minutes Series for September-October is curated by Manuwi C Tokai on the occasion of the exhibition Temporary House of Home at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Manuwi C Tokai invites everyone to submit a one-minute video in response to the question Akarani Bono Awowa? (Where is the place where you see the sun rise and set?) This is the Kali'na way of asking: Where are you from? Where is your home?

The latest in The One Minutes Series is Mind-body-problem. Artist duo Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen have selected videos that depict the relationship between the soul and the body – whether as a metaphor, a problem or even a bad joke. Mind-body-problem asks the age-old question: how can matter ever come to life?

Travelling Academy curators Erik Wong and Sophie Krier try to materialise the idea of the ‘pluriverse’ with Jay Jordan and Isa Frémeaux and Camila Marambio in this action-packed TNL! Afterwards, they dive into the topic of water in İstanbul with Nur Horsananlı, Yaşar Adnan Adanalı, Eva Pfannes (OOZE) and Li An Phoa. The conversation focuses on the plea that Yaşar Adnan Adanalı made in the recently published Thirst Walk & Talk: free drinkable tap water for all İstanbulites. What is needed to make this happen?

This second edition of How to Do a Zoöp takes a speculative look at Het Nieuwe Insituut, and the wider Museum Park, as a zoöp. Het Nieuwe Instituut as zoöp serves as a case study for the larger question of how to take the interests of more-than-human inhabitants into account when designing green public spaces? How would spatial arrangements and patterns of use have to be reorganised? How might the ecological quality of life, and the relationships between the entire multispecies community (including humans!), be enhanced?

From oil platforms to wind farms, entire infrastructures are built upon the seemingly empty expanse of the sea. In a special event organised by nai010 publishers and based on the new book, The Urbanisation of the Sea, researcher Nancy Couling and port city expert Carola Hein explore the consequences and possibilities of these maritime developments. With contributions by urban theorist Neil Brenner, urban designer Han Meyer and curator Chus Martínez. 

In this iteration of Remote Reading Room, Jack Halberstam will read from Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Halberstam’s remote, spoken word performance will be accompanied by a soundtrack by Ash Fure, and will be followed by an online Q&A. 

In collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut, Concrete Blossom presents a series of video essays and podcasts about language, imagery and space in hip hop culture. In this second part of Articulating Sauce, Malique Mohamud (Concrete Blossom) is joined by Zouhair Hammana as they reflect on the philosophy of Gucci Mane (‘the sauce’), knowledge in our social circles, and the embodiment of this knowledge in a westernised society.

In Gallery 3 By You, the Rare collective presents Raw, an exhibition exploring the creative process. In this related TNL! online event, three practitioners present their own vision of the singular moments, actions and ideas of the creative process, identifying values that usually remain hidden.

The second edition of Open Archive takes a look behind the scenes at the work of the three selected artists – Jessica de Abreu, Michiel Huijben and Femke Dekker. These makers went in search of new stories in digital collections to create media artworks on the theme 'activism and archives', to be shown at Het Nieuwe Instituut in June 2021.

With this seminar, research collective Nomaos aims to put the individual lines of thinking advanced in the exhibition What Do Landscapes Say?, into the larger discourse consisting of the overlap between art, cultural theory, social studies, urbanism, and architectural theory. 

The final event in the TNL! Lithium series will recharge online visitors with a lecture by architect Christie Pearson on the intricate history of European spa towns and public bathhouses, and their relations to different forms of power. Following that, set designer Katrin Bombe will give insight into the scenography of the Lithium exhibition, staged as a mineral spa.

As of 1 January 2021, Het Nieuwe Instituut is a heritage institution. To underline this role, the institute is developing a multi-year exhibition: Designing the Social, based partly on the architecture collection. This event offers a behind-the-scenes look at the research, and a chance to join the discussion.

In 2018, designer Basse Stittgen won the New Material Fellowship with his work Blood Related. To wrap up his research on cow blood, he worked with designer and filmmaker Juan Arturo García on a short film on the slaughterhouse industry. During this event the film Blood Related will be launched, and the research preceding the film will be discussed with invited guests.

What is the story behind the creation of a battery powered future? Through contributions by Unknown Fields (Kate Davies and Liam Young) and astronomer Francisco Förster, the third event in the TNL! Lithium series will explore the cosmological origins of lithium, and its role in the ‘green’ energy transition.

Solar power is one of the great hopes of the so-called clean energy transition to renewables. This TNL! Design Dialogues event brings together solar designers Marjan van Aubel and Pauline van Dongen and Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Anastasía Kubrak and Flora van Gaalen to talk about making the transition a reality.

On 18 February 2021 architect and recipient of the first Tilting Axis/Het Nieuwe Instituut Research Fellowship, Sean Leonard presented his research project on the relations between architecture and water.

Reconnect with Lidewij Tummers, Sandra Rottenberg and others as they discuss American architect and architecture historian Dolores Hayden's influential essay during the event, What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like?

The second event in the TNL! Lithium series will address the relationship between lithium and mental health. Contributions by the LiCo (Lithops Corporation) collective

and anthropologist Emily Martin will explore the role of lithium in our culture of productivity, and the cultural life of mania.

On International Human Rights Day (10 December), Values for Survival Cahier 2 was launched. The cahier is the second publication of Values for Survival, the public research programme accompanying Who is We? the Dutch contribution to the 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice. Values for Survival curator Caroline Nevejan, Jane da Mosto (of We Are Here Venice) and the cahier researchers will talk about the research and reflect on the question: How can intuition and experience be shared between people who do not know each other and cannot meet? 

In collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut, Shay Kreuger presents the talk show STATEMENTS, a lively discussion about local and (inter)national issues in design, art, culture, politics, entertainment and society. Topics on the table for this very first edition of STATEMENTS include coronavirus design, cancel culture, and women in the hiphopculture. 

As part of the programme for the Jaap Bakema Study Centre conference, which aims to critically explore the interplay between architecture and digital culture since the 1970s, Armin Linke discusses a selection of projects with Georg Vrachliotis and Dirk van den Heuvel. This presentation reflects on the current state of global technological landscapes, from media archives and data archaeology to control rooms and server farms. 

A screening of videos by Sarmen Beglarian, Vasyl Cherepanyn and Milica Tomić followed by a conversation together with Arna Mačkić on the resignification and destruction of monuments in Kyiv, Ukraine and Omarska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is the third edition of Monument, a collaboration with e-flux Architecture, to discuss how monuments have—once again—come to play a pivotal role in mobilizing and rearticulating struggles for recognition.

A screening of videos by The Black Archives and Quinsy Gario followed by a conversation with Simone Zeefuik on new rituals and performances to make monuments mean otherwise. This is the second edition of Monument, a collaboration with e-flux Architecture, to discuss how monuments have—once again—come to play a pivotal role in mobilizing and rearticulating struggles for recognition.

A screening of videos by Manuel Correa and Dima Srouji, followed by a conversation on the practice of unearthing monuments and its contribution to the construction of history. This is the first edition of Monument, a collaboration with e-flux Architecture, to discuss how monuments have—once again—come to play a pivotal role in mobilizing and rearticulating struggles for recognition.

BNO IMG LAB is back! From September to December the spotlight is on the best, the brightest and the nicest art academy students of 2020. Pioneers from all disciplines showcase their successes and failures during the making of their graduation projects. 

A look back at the closing event of the exhibition The Hoodie, in which Flora van Gaalen (Het Nieuwe Instituut) and Malique Mohamud (Concrete Blossom) explore the collaboration of their organisations. They look at how it began, the forms it has taken and how the institute works with existing and new public groups. They also answer the question: what basis is there for future cooperations? 

The series Gossips aims to bring women together and to revive and reanimate the idea of ‘the gossip’ and ‘gossiping’ – originally a free space where women could develop and share ideas and thoughts. The series also sets out to collectivise the feminist discourse and to offer a platform where new expressions can be conceived and developed, expressing opposition to the terms used to define and demote women. The third event in the series invites theorist Oxana Timofeeva, and is moderated by curator iLiana Fokianaki.

The series Gossips aims to bring women together, to re-generate and re-perform the original concept of ‘the gossip’ as a support structure for women’s ideas, thinking processes and exchanges. The second event in the series invites art critic Elisabeth Lebovici and curator Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, and is moderated by curator iLiana Fokianaki.

Music videos often expose the realities of local communities, circulating them across platforms and borders. Under lockdown and self-isolation, music video formats have actually enabled forms of solidarity and collectivity across different countries. This online event will look at how local realities and changing notions of public space are represented in music videos. Speakers will also reflect on how fans and communities, held together by music, are responding to the current situation, and what modes of collaboration are emerging during social distancing.  

During the opening of The Hoodie, Melanin Kris (of Levisionairs) and cast took visitors on a journey, beginning with a vision of the hoodie as ground zero, and ending in a celebration of his birthday at the amplified afterparty. The event led to the release of his new clothing line of ‘hoodies with poetry’. Just as he was getting up to speed, the corona pandemic hit Rotterdam and he had to grapple with a new strategic challenge as an independent storyteller, essential worker and artist-entrepreneur.

This Thursday Night Live! programme revisits the lecture Do Comrades Gossip? by Jodi Dean. Looking back at a night of intimate conversations, writer and philosopher Simon(e) van Saarlos reflects on the evening through the lens of personal memory and practice.

Life in isolation invites us to reflect and redefine who we are. Many of us are wondering who we would really like to be, and why.

A live conversation with the artist Bogomir Doringer, who will discuss surveillance, fear, lust, temptation - and his contribution to The Hoodie. 

Bot Club investigates the possibilities of Garry Kasparov's 'centaur model' as a metaphor for healthy working relationships between humans and artificial intelligences. Human-AI relations are complicated and often downright disfunctional. At this event, the aim is to bring the myths, technologies and politics of human-AI relationships closer together - from a position of mutual respect, yet with an awareness of each other's shortcomings. 

In the Netherlands, there are 10,000 'experimental' houses, thanks to the unique housing policy of the 1970s. From 1968, an experimental programme was responsible for housing renewal and urban regeneration, in reaction to the monotonous residential districts of the 1950s and 1960s.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work (Signs, 1980). This essay, by American architect and architecture historian Dolores Hayden, became a major influence on feminist thinking about design, construction, living and gender. In it, Hayden argues that architectural design and urban planning limit women's position in society, and investigates radical alternatives that could faciliate a more equal role.

This night we will launch Young NVTL, a new initiative from the professional organisation for landscape architecture intended for young professionals. Besides presenting our plans, Young NVTL offers you the chance to take the stage and share your opinion on the future of landscape architecture. 

No time for losers 'cause we are the champions... From lacing up our own shoes to graduating from university, and from tidying our room to staging our first show, we reap the rewards. But why is it that our triumphs are always celebrated, while our less successful endeavours are ignored?

Build, build, build is the much-heard mantra to meet the urgent demand for housing in the Netherlands. But as the number of small households and constructions costs continue to rise, the question is: what will we build in the coming years? Does compact housing offer a solution?

For The Record: Staging Realities will examine the role of set and stage design in music videos and live events.

Sacred Beings is a themed programme exploring contemporary non-Western queer culture, curated by IFFR’s first Young Curator. Darunee Terdtoontaveedej. At the heart of this multidisciplinary programme is an installation that brings together the documentary photography by New Zealand-based academic Sharyn Davies, the portraits shot by Thai photographer Watsamon Tri-yasakda and a short film by Thai artist and filmmaker Sarnt Utamachote.

‘The debate’ rages everywhere. And it doesn’t even really seem to matter what that debate is about. People disagree vehemently. All. The. Time. In the midst of this noise, disagreement and polarisation, stands the museum. Some say it’s a ‘leftish hobby’, while others claim the institution is too conservative, not inclusive enough. The debate has permeated the museum walls. Are museums neutral spaces where opposing views can meet? Should they be a safe haven, a space where you can escape politics and society, a place that lets you recharge? Or should they take a stand? Is really everyone welcome in the museum? And what does this actually mean?

Geological Filmmaking stages an encounter between film and geology across their formal, material and temporal dimensions, and highlights some representational and perceptual issues surrounding the ecological crisis. It uses the geologic and the filmic as prisms through which to theorise points of exchange between human and nonhuman processes that occur on incommensurate spatio-temporal scales – yet are still intertwined. 

More and more people all over the world move into urban areas with hope for better career options and more exciting lifestyle. Unfortunately, amenities that allow for comfortable modern lifestyle, have a negative impact on the environment. Currently, cities are responsible for more than ⅔ of all carbon dioxide emissions. The emissions could double within the next 30 years if no new solutions are applied.

What does such a dark city look like? What are the design principles for urban planning, street lighting and architecture? What does it contribute to our physical and spiritual health? Studio Monnik immerses you in a theatrical future in which the city has recaptured the view of the stars. Think along and embrace your inner urban astronaut.

The most competitive domain in global technology is the development of AI. Many believe that it holds the key to economic, political and technological dominance for the parties managing to wield its power. China stands at the forefront of these developments, in direct competition with various states and tech companies, and is developing a specific Chinese branch of manmade intelligence (a literal translation of the Mandarin phrase for AI) based on the unique techno-political circumstances in the Chinese geo zone.

Every year in November we open the stage for new upcoming talent. The ten most promising young makers, freshly graduated from the academies, are ready to conquer the world with their ideas, images and products.

During How Do You Do: Open Archive, artists, designers, researchers and heritage professionals will discuss the creative re-use of open collections. The event, organised by Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, forms the conclusion of the Open Archive project.

The cultural sector is in flux. Change and leadership are necessary and can happen at any level in the organisation. Especially early career professionals want to break through barriers and change existing structures. They want to experiment and be more inclusive, both when it comes to programming and staff hires. It’s not easy though to truely change things. How can you become a leader, when you are not in charge?

On Thursday 14 November BNO IMG LAB will again be all about the Cross Comix Festival, taking place throughout the week in Rotterdam. This 'Indian Roots' edition is dedicated to comic-making, with screenwriter Stijn Schenk, colourist Marloes Dekkers, illustrator and writer Frits Jonker, and many others.

Giovanni Bellotti and Alessandra Covini of Studio Ossidiana talk about the Animal Encounters installation and their research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. Afterwards, they discuss architecture, ecology and cross-species exchange with Dirk van den Heuvel.

The city of the future is in constant transformation and seeks creative solutions to tailor-made housing and mixed-use environments. During 'Evolutionaries' we use the radical ideas of Yona Friedman’s Spatial City as a blueprint for the challenges that today’s architects and urbanists are faced with. How can we create a contemporary urban environment that allows architecture to evolve beyond rigid structures? How do cities cope with flexibility in structures worldwide, such as China and South Africa? How can cities become more ‘elastic’ and adaptive, and why is this necessary?

A talk and small exhibition of the IDEA magazine's popular series on graphic designers in Asia region called "Yellow Pages." The main authors/designers Tetsuya Goto (OOO Projects, Japan), Min Choi (Sulki & Min, South Korea), Ingo Offermanns (Germany) and Saki Ho (Hong Kong) will give a talk about their activities and emerging graphic designers in East Asia region. * This is an English spoken edition!

After a long period of globalized outsourcing, new forms of manufacturing emerge in the Netherlands. What characterizes the locations of new manufacturing, compared to old industries? How does manufacturing relate to other urban activities such as dwelling, recycling or learning? Are we making enough room for it in current urban developments?

Thursday Night Live! will explore the relations between the 1980s culture of cyberpunk, the spread of the computer virus and its biological counterpart AIDS. With a.o. lectures from Ivan Lopez Munuera, Charles Boucher and Andrea Bagnato, a \/\/iFi + OSS/**** performance by JODI and a performance by Red Light Radio. This event is part of the extended programme of Malware: Symptoms of Viral Infection, curated by Bas van de Poel and Marina Otero Verzier.

Museum apps are everywhere and everyone has something to say about them. But what do we really know about museum apps? Do we really understand the potential and challenges of this new(ish) medium? Night Shift will look into the museum app on October 17^th. Not to be blown away by cool pitches and awesome promises, but we’re also not ready to say goodbye to the museum app. On the 17^th we want answers. Answers to your questions.

In Spirits in the Material World, artist Heman Chong reflects on spaces that exist in the darkness; the slippages into the netherworld. The installation is on view in Het Nieuwe Instituut from 10 October 2019 to 29 December 2019.
On 10 October, Heman Chong and Director of Research Marina Otero Verzier will further elaborate on Spirits in the Material World in an informal opening talk.

For the Record: Designing Realities will examine the politics of production design in popular music videos during the Nederlands Film Festival. Recent music video releases of among others Janelle Monáe and Sevdaliza will form the basis for a debate on the articulation of political realities through production design and fashion. 

Are there places designed for or by queer communities? Or is it mainly a history of communities appropriating spaces? Together with archivist Alfred Marks, the State Archive for Architecture and Urban Planning will be viewed from a queer perspective. Dirk van den Heuvel discusses the results of his ongoing research into queerness in architecture, and Aad Koster takes you into Rotterdam's queer history.

How can we better transform the future? What can we learn from the past few years in which studios and apartments have been realised in old office buildings? Woningbouwatelier (the Housing Construction Workshop) sees new opportunities by focusing less on the product and more on future residents. During the Guest Programme 'New Future For Old Buildings', Woningbouwatelier will investigate.

This Design Dialogue focuses on the shifting position of the designer within the global geography of freelancing and current economic climate in the creative sector; one where labour is increasingly outsourced, delegated, masked and displaced. With Stefan Stefansson, Lara García Díaz, Fanfare (Freja Kir and Miquel Hervás Gómez) and Silvio Lorusso.

Europe has a thriving cultural conference scene. You could attend an inspiring event almost every month. In theory, that is. The reality for most museum staff and freelancers is of course: No time. No money. But fear not! Night Shift will kick off the new cultural season with a summary of the most fun, interesting and inspirational conferences that took place in Europe this year.

In recent years a lot has happened in the area of ​​community centres. After restrictive measures caused spending cuts and closures, they are back on the rise. These buildings act as centres for educational and recreational activities for the neighbourhood, as well as being multi-purpose buildings. With their resurgence, the typology and identity of these buildings is in the spotlight again, from the creativity of their designed spaces to their commissioning and sustainable financial models.

Sacred Hill, a project by Ali Eslami and Klasien van de Zandschulp, researches how ‘sacredness’ can be used to make sense of, and shape, our virtual space. This evening they will test a performative experiment as part of the VR experience. The installation will be open all evening, but this experiment will have limited capacity.

Healthy water is of vital importance. As a former construction materials wholesaler, Henk Pannekoek discovered that shell lime is not only a natural building product but is also an important natural medicinal product and can influence the quality of water. Dive into the fascinating world of vital water during this Aqua Aurora tupperware party. Taste the difference yourself!

Proxies on Trial puts everyday objects in the dock. They are accused of ‘crimes’ such as climate change, financial crises or 90s music. The result is a fictional debate about how to deal with complex cases of (partly non-human) collective authorship.

A lecture evening about water curated by Rianne Makkink (WaterSchool). Together with physician and researcher Yuka Mizusawa (the message of water) and artist and designer Aliki van der Kruijs (water as design element), she will explore the properties and agency of water.

How might design, philosophy, science and mythology inform each other, while producing fresh and imaginative multi-species responses to address the genesis and future of ecological devastation? Join the panel discussion on 11 July 2019 at Het Nieuwe Instituut. 

Big Nate, from Smells Good in the Hood, lays on a delicious daytime barbecue in The New Garden, featuring soul food from all over the world. While enjoying the garden barbecue, you can discover the stories of The New Garden’s visitors together with Maher Al Sabbagh, the host of this edition of Just Hanging Out. Just Hanging Out investigates public space in Rotterdam, and in particular the space of The New Garden.

Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Van Eesteren-Fluck & Van Lohuizen (EFL) foundation present Archive Explorations, an evening about architect and urban planner Cornelis van Eesteren. The event celebrates the occasion of the official transfer of the Van Eesteren archive to Het Nieuwe Instituut. Floor Milikowski, Linda Vlassenrood and Suzanna Jansen discuss their research, and Hetty Berens (Conservator, Het Nieuwe Instituut) shows highlights from the Van Eesteren archive. 

How do we tackle the transition to a circular economy at different scales of planning and governance? What consequences does this have for the development strategy of work locations? Do we reserve sufficient space in the right places for circular practices and businesses? How can we embed circular thinking in the current urbanization agenda?

On Thursday 27 June BNO IMG LAB presents 'Lekker Stangen' at Het Nieuwe Instituut, a contradictory evening under the inspiring leadership of guest editor Stang Gubbels, who personally selected the speakers!

‘’I try to understand what I see. I see only what I understand. I have learnt to observe closely, just like you’. In de Thursday Night Workshop ‘Object Detection Roleplay’, Arthur Boer and Boris Smeenk invite you to discover more about how object detection algorithms ‘see’ based on a performative approach.

Through a collection of contributions that vary in format and mode of address, the ‘Schemas of Uncertainty’ book explores the relationship between prediction and prescription. It traces the effects predictive technologies have on the imagination of possible futures, futures other than that of technological progress. 

A recent study conducted by Microsoft found that the average human attention span is down to eight seconds; one second less than that of a goldfish. So who is this millennial? The American historians Neil Howe and William Strausse first introduced the term in their book Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation. In this book, published in 2000, millennials are defined as a generation born between 1982 and 2002. A generation with a brain that functions differently due to the rise of the internet. A generation that, according to research, has a shorter attention span than older generations. 

A practical two day workshop on building camera rigs, capturing aerial imagery using kites and balloons, as well as processing those images to create geo-rectified aerial photographs. 

Graphic Assembly unearths the role played by montage and collage in the development of architectural culture over the past century, revealing their unexamined yet crucial significance. Craig Buckley brings together experimental architectural practices based in London, Paris, Vienna, and Florence, showing how breakthroughs in optical media and printing technologies enabled avant-garde architects to reimagine their field.

This year the focus of the Day of Architecture Rotterdam is on the Lloydkwartier. During this kick-off OMI (Office for Metropolitan Information) and Het Nieuwe Instituut will look into the special history of this area, the current and future developments and the exciting transformations that have happened.

NINJA ¬Independent Narratives, Journalism and Action¬ – aka Mídia Ninja – is a decentralized network of volunteer journalists who produce and disseminate reports based on collaborative work and online sharing. Ninjas are primarily involved in real time broadcasting, but also produce news stories, documentaries and investigative journalism in Brazil and abroad.

It’s safe to say that Jordan Peele is Hollywood’s king of horror. After Get Out he returned to the screen with the movie Us, the story about the Wilson family, their doppelgängers and a maze of underground tunnels where the Tethered live. Us has been welcomed by praises and loads of theories about who’s who and what’s happening why. For example -and how can we say this without spoiling it for the people who haven’t seen it but want to do so before May 26- … why isn’t Jason’s trick working? But also, what’s the symbolism? Did you catch the references to other horror films? And, of course… are there connections between Us and Get Out?

What do changing gender roles, practices and identities mean for the design workplace and for the construction of the built environment? The Center for the Advancement of Masculine Practices (CAMP) is an initiative by environmental psychologist Adeola Enigbokan and spatial strategist Gavan Blau to discuss decentering masculinity in architectural practice. Masculine practices are not limited to men. Rather, these have, historically, come to epitomize notions of leadership, assertiveness, strength, within the discipline and practice of architecture—stereotypes that, in turn, have manifested in androcentric, non-inclusive architectures. 

In this talk, The Afterlife of Soil, Christina Sharpe will think about wakes, slavery museums and memorials, about soil and dust. In order to do this she will turn to, among other sites, The Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and the Legacy Museum from Slavery to Mass Incarceration in Montgomery, Alabama. She will also look to the work of two Black women visual artists Simone Leigh and Torkwase Dyson.

A museum is a public institution that must be accessible to as many people as possible. This is the ambitious starting point of many cultural policies and policy plans. But is it possible to satisfy everyone? While one person is attracted by appealing events in museums, the other attaches great importance to the classical experience of the museum as a beacon of tranquility. A museum text in layman’s terms increases accessibility, but can also cause crooked toes.

This edition of For the Record will look into the interconnectivity of digital subcultures though the lens of K-pop and K-drama fandoms. 

Are existing interaction environments inclusive and diverse enough? Are innovation hubs open platforms of knowledge exchange or the gatekeepers of intellectual property? Which spatial ecosystems link knowledge production to other economic sectors such as agriculture, manufacture and logistics?

As part of Het Nieuwe Instituut’s research on burn-out and exhausted bodies, this series investigates how voice, oral histories, and collective, embodied listening, could be deployed as a counterbalance of the pervasiveness of the image and the growing pressure to put bodies on display. For this first event, Professor of anthropology Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing read, by means of an audio piece, her work The Mushroom at the End of the World.

Counting the uncounted: Combining crowd and open source intelligence to report civilians deaths in war. The lecture will explore how recent wars, in particular the international fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, are being extensively documented by civilians, militants and state militaries via social media. Taking Airwars' recent collaboration with Amnesty International as our focus, we will discuss how social media is being used to track civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria, combining remote monitoring with crowdsourcing and field investigations.

How does the Bauhaus functionalistic credo live on in architecture, and how does architecture relate to the human dimension? These questions invite different cinematographic approaches from contemporary artists.

Designing for Precarious Citizens is a research-by-design project by Artez Future Makers, the centre of expertise for interdisciplinary design based research. Starting point of this project is the work of Dutch architect Johan Niegeman, who attempted to design a better quality of housing for the masses. Apart from dedicating himself to designing for these ‘precarious’ citizens, Niegeman was convinced that design should always be achieved with the best techniques available.

100 years ago 'Staatliche Bauhaus' was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. From Germany, this art academy grew into one of the most influential worldwide architectural and design movements of the 20th century. On the occasion of Bauhaus' jubilee, Germany Travel has developed a TINY [BAU]HAUS together with DUS Architects as a sample of the impressive Bauhaus heritage in Germany.

What if losing is a game? Game designer Karel Millenaar believes that every complex idea can be simplified while you play. Taking losing as his point of departure, he involves the players in a speeded up process of thinking and making from which different games emerge. Since you learn the most by doing, these games are played and evaluated together. Not dwelling too long on an idea and simply starting to mess around is precisely what makes problems easier to grasp.

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A conversation with Adrian Lahoud, Dean of the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art and Sudanese diplomat Lumumba Di-Aping reflecting on Lahoud’s research ‘Climate Crimes’.

Research through Design is the designerly contribution to the creating of new knowledge. Knowledge that can be used by others. And brought about by designerly interventions such as speculating about the future, making prototypes, and engaging with complexity and ambiguity without necessarily trying to ‘box them in’.

Move through your own utopia with VR artist Paula Strunden. Paula will demonstrate an intuitive technology that brings Virtual Reality within reach.

Are people welcome in the workplaces of the future? Will site value soon be determined by global data flows? What role does the government still have in this? The 'Architecture of Labour' is a program of six public debates on the spatial dimension of work and its transition toward new modes of production. This guest program runs between March and December 2019, and is developed in collaboration with Deltametropolis Association and Spontaneous City International.

Perhaps the lack of digital documentation of the work of Cubic3 Design is the reason the duo is overlooked in Dutch design history, or maybe it’s that they are just not understood. What would it mean to them if they did get this kind of online recognition?

In Speculative Design Archive Live!, a range of experts will enter into discussion with one another on issues raised by the Speculative Design Archive. During the debate on Thursday 21 February 2019, we will devote attention to new approaches to dealing with archives and heritage through forms of collaboration making them more accessible and easier to use. 

With its combination of various arts such as painting, photography film, architecture, fashion, product and interior design and textile art, the Bauhaus is still considered the epitome of a technologically advanced modernity. Last but not least, the attempt to create the whole society aesthetically, inspired many artists worldwide. Even in the contemporary Moving Image, the Bauhaus heritage is referenced in many ways, directly or associatively. 

As a teenager Diana Ritfeld was excited by the traditional Suriname headscarves that her grandma wore. These angisas are Surinamese cultural heritage; each form expresses a different message. The creative headscarves that Ritfeld wears and distributes are created without any pre-conceived plan and are artistic, free designs. Be just as spontaneous in creating your own headscarf with the help of Diana.

Joke Robaard and Camiel van Winkel are interviewed following their publication Archive Species: Bodies, Habits, Practices

For the Record: Performing Gender will examine gender roles and feminist positions in popular music videos. Iconic videos of Madonna and Prince, as well as recent video releases of Sevdaliza and others, will form the basis for a debate on the articulation of gender through the cinematographic gaze and the performing body. 

From Thursday 24 Januari - Sunday 3 February Het Nieuwe Café is the ‘Meme Café’, the heart of the thematic programme Rabbit Hole. A place where the audience can immerse themselves in the memeverse. On show are special meme-related works and installations by artists and filmmakers, there are possibilities to contribute to the exhibition by adding your own memes and several events are organised in the cafe. The programme opens on 24 January during Thursday Night Live! with a special Meme Night in the Meme Café. 

Design objects are increasingly being presented and traded in the contemporary digital landscape using images circulated on social media such as Instagram. A design increasingly derives its value from what it says in a picture. This changing relationship between the physical object and the online image also influences the cultural-historical status of a design, and has consequences for collections and archives. What does it mean for the archival practices of the future if more and more value is being given to digital images? 

From creative mythologies to special effects, from virtual reality to climate denial, from placebo effect to religious faith, from hardcoded protocols to free floating values, form unquestioned futures to contested presents. When do things get real enough for us to act upon them? And how do we get a meaningful choice on when things are real enough? Reality Club is a series of Thursday Night on media and realities.  

You could call Bas van Beek (1974) an ‘antidesigner'. His work criticises market mechanisms, branding, empty conceptualism and the uncritical personality culture around designers. For the project Archiploitations, Van Beek uses found archive material as a basis for producing new work, sometimes realising historical designs that could not be executed with the techniques of the time, or translating an existing design into his own style. 

Burn-Out Blow-Out marks the end of the working year, and with that we invite you to a performance based night, exploring the theme of BURN-OUT, in collaboration with Cen Giz (MONO), Schueller de Waal and Het Nieuwe Instituut fellows. The night will end with a burn-out blowout party in Het Nieuwe Café. 

During this Speculative Design Archive debate the emergence of new modes of authorship and authority with their own independent narratives will be explored. 

With Bethany Nowviskie, Dragan Espenschied, Klaus Rechert, Michael Murtaugh, Nicolas Maleve, Renee Turner and Cristina Cochior. Moderation by Annet Dekker.

Het Nieuwe Instituut acquired the archive of MVRDV, including a large number of maquettes, in 2016, but cannot keep it in its entirety. In this Archive Talk, curator Suzanne Mulder discusses the considerations and conversations that precede the choice of models that will be included in the State Archive for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning. How does such a complicated selection come about?

The second Vertical Atlas event focused on the Russian digital cosmos. How does a country with a tradition of central planning cope with the decentral internet and powerful foreign cloud-platforms? With Svitlana Matvyienko and Ksenia Tatarchenko.

From its main port in Rotterdam, to its productive hinterlands of greenhouses and farms, the logic and relations that define the physical and social landscape of work and labor in the Netherlands are being redefined by machines, data and interfaces. In this event, Meiny Prins, Susan Schuppli, Stephan Petermann, Víctor Muñoz Sanz, Marina Otero Verzier and Marten Kuijpers will engage in a public conversation on the spatial implications of automation for the built environment. Arjen Oosterman will moderate the evening.

Pendrecht in Rotterdam and KhTZ in Kharkiv are two neighbourhoods chosen by artist Wendelien van Oldenborgh to examine through the lens of gender, class and race. An introduction to a new work-in-progress about construction and perception. With contributions by Levgeniia Gubkina, Hannah Dawn Henderson, Ola Hassanain and Alexandre Furtado Melville.

BNO IMG LAB presents designers that use unusual materials for design purposes, transforming materials and applying smart reuse. Designing by mixing and remixing, making grateful use of what is already there.

On Thursday 18 October three new exhibitions open to the public. Speculative Design Archive, Habitat: Expanding Architecture and Prix de Rome Architecture 2018, each examine the remains of our material and spatial design culture from a different perspective.

Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2018 prelude with guided tour and screening of the film Away From All Suns at Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Join artist Jonas Staal and curator Marina Otero Verzier on 20 September for the finissage and book launch of Steve Bannon: A Propaganda Retrospective, and ongoing debate on the possibility of emancipatory propaganda art.

Episode five of the Garden Broadcast series looks at the inhabitation of the garden as a hospitable site for political refuge, dissent, or utopian experimentation. With guests Antonio Ottomanelli, Leanne Wijnsma, Laurie Cluitmans and Behoud Lutkemeer.

Join the editors and contributors for the book launch of Work, Body Leisure, published in conjunction with the Dutch Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2018. The publication explores the spatial configurations, living conditions, and notions of the human body engendered by disruptive changes in labor, its ethos, and its conditions.

An evening conversation on FREESPACE, the theme of the Biennale Architettura 2018, jointly organized by Het Nieuwe Instituut and Creative Industries Fund NL. With presentations by the curators of national contributions, as well as the teams selected through the Open Call Architecture Biennale Venice #2 and #3, organized by Creative Industries Fund NL. Moderation by Lara Schrijver, Professor in Architecture at the University of Antwerp.

Take your controller apart and put it back together again! In this hands-on workshop with Anja Groten and Heerko van der Kooij (Hackers & Designers), participants join battle with the computer.

In this second debate, we will take a closer look at Rotterdam’s green and healthy side. How can we keep the city safe for pedestrians and cyclists? Does it have enough parks and open spaces? Where do clean air and the port come in? With Cees van der Veeken (LOLA Landscape Architects), Willemijn Lofvers (Bureau Lofvers), Froukje van de Klundert (Posad Spatial Strategies), Cesare Peeren (Superuse Studios) and Catherine Visser (DaF Architecten).

From passion to obsession. BNO IMG LAB presents artists who do not distinguish between living to work and working to live. Artists who are unstoppable when it comes to their great love for images, products, and ideas. Artists who do not put a brake on themselves or their creations, but where does this unbridled love for the design profession come from?