Nieuwe Instituut

Opening today: Promised Land!
Visual artist Serana Angelista adds context to photographs from their family archive using natural materials such as cowrie shells. The artist shifts the viewer’s gaze from the face of the person portrayed to the circumstances in which they lived and the emotions and associations this evokes. Promised Land addresses the reliability of institutional and living archives and is part of the exhibition curated by Gyonne Zafira in Rotterdam and Aruba, How Do We Remember? Learn more via this link: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/how-do-we-remember

Visit Forms of (ex-)Change, where graphic designers from the Netherlands and Germany engage with the idea of change in the broadest sense of the word. The exhibition, which was originally developed on the occasion of the Leipzig Book Fair 2024, is a collaboration between the Nieuwe Instituut and the Dutch graphic design programme at Werkplaats Typografie, the independent Leipzig bookshop MZIN, and the System Design class at the Academy of Fine Arts (HGB) in Leipzig.

Portals is an interactive exhibition at the Research Centre focused on acquiring, preserving and providing access to born-digital archival material. The architecture collection managed by the Nieuwe Instituut comprises not only paper archives but also archival material originally produced in digital format, including 3D models, images, videos, animations, renderings and emails, from the digital archive of MVRDV architects. You can visit the Research Centre during the museum’s opening hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 10.00 to 17.00 and until 21.00 on Thursdays.

Join the Network for Archives of Design and Digital Culture () on the 20th June for a day-long symposium exploring archives of design and digital culture. Explore innovative approaches to networked archives, exciting archival practices in roundtable discussions, live podcast recordings and hands-on workshops.⁠
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🎟️ Find out more about all workshops, activities and roundtables on our Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/living-archives-a-celebration-of-design-and-digital-culture-tickets-890842121767?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
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During this week, there are all kinds of events on the calendar. Here is a short overview! ⁠
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🌱Q***r Salon #4⁠
The fourth edition of the Q***r Salon goes beyond the walls of the institute to focus on the garden as a q***r sanctuary. Together with guests such as landscape architects Joost Emmerik and Riek Bakker, and artist Frank Bruggeman, we will explore the archives of the landscape designers Michael van Gessel, Yves Brunier, and Riek Bakker, and take a stroll through the New Garden and the Museumpark.⁠
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🎙️Changing Institutions with Sara Ahmed⁠
The Erasmus School of Philosophy (ESPhil) and Nieuwe Instituut present Changing Institutions with Sara Ahmed: Common Sense, Complaint and Other Lessons in Legacies. In her lecture, Ahmed will explore diversity in institutions and the resistance and critique surrounding it, as well as the tools that can be used to explain or challenge the issues. This will be followed by a conversation between Ahmed and journalist and programme maker Clarice Gargard.⁠
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🔍️ Living Archives: a Celebration of Design and Digital Culture⁠
Join the Network for Archives of Design and Digital Culture on the 20th June for a day-long symposium exploring archives of design and digital culture. Explore innovative approaches to networked archives, exciting archival practices in roundtable discussions, live podcast recordings and hands-on workshops.⁠
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⭐️ Thursday Night Detour with Laura⁠
In her Thursday Night Detour, Detour Guide Laura Grimm will explore the architectural elements which are part of the museum building: from a glass tower to a brick cube or a metal arch. Discover more about these shapes and create your own building.⁠
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👕 An Evening With: Bobby Kolade (BUZIGAHILL)⁠
Nieuwe Instituut and State of Fashion together welcome Ugandan designer Bobby Kolade, of the Kapala-based clothing brand BUZIGAHILL, for a discussion that ranges from fashion and the second-hand clothing supply chain to waste colonialism and its impact on the local environment.⁠
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⁠Learn more about all the events via this link: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events

During this week, there are all kinds of events on the calendar. Here is a short overview! ⁠

🇵🇸 Design for Change #1: Graphic Design for Gaza
Drawing on the visual language, symbolism and social impact of posters and other media, designers Sana Iqbal, Rasha Dakkak and Anja Groten discuss how graphic design can be used as a means of protest. Aric Chen, director of the Nieuwe Instituut, moderates the discussion. Limestone Bookshop presents a temporary display table with publications related to the theme.

🌱 Charging the Commons
Nieuwe Instituut Zoöp, together with the research and design initiatives Charging the Commons and Dark Matter Lab, is organising a workshop to explore how design can contribute to the technological and organisational conditions of a more-than-human consciousness. What kind of ‘relational interfaces’ can help us to imagine relationships with each other, different life forms and the planet that are based on stewardship and the common good, rather than domination and ownership?

📖 Book Launch: Art Applied by Inside Outside/Petra Blaisse
This event presents Art Applied, a new book documenting the work of designer Petra Blaisse and her studio Inside Outside. The book offers a kaleidoscopic view of more than three decades of interior, exhibition and landscape design.

⁠Learn more about the events via this link: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events

Thank you all for joining us at the Nieuwe Café for the festive opening of the presentation Dutch, More or Less: Contemporary Architecture, Design and Digital Culture. General and Artistic Director Aric Chen explained more about the presentation, and Nieuwe Instituut researchers Ramon Amaro, Delany Boutkan and Dirk van den Heuvel talked to various designers and artists about their own “more or less Dutch” practice.

Designer Elisa van Joolen and the Nieuwe Instituut are working together again in 2024. From the end of May, the EVJ museum bag will be available once more: not a disposable carrier bag, but a handmade design object made from upcycled materials that you can take care of for a few months. The designer and the institute are celebrating the renewed collaboration with a modest launch, and you can sign the contract to become a bag “caretaker” right away. Why not adopt one this spring?

Learn more via this link: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events/launch-evj-2024

This year the festival heart of Rotterdam Architectuur Maand is located in Museumpark! Follow the route that takes you zigzagging through the park and visit the ‘Time Tower’ by architect Alexandra Sonnemans in the garden of Huis Sonneveld.

This lookout post and exhibition space takes visitors on a journey through the rich history of the Land of Hoboken. The exhibition uses historical images to show how the area is constantly developing. Over the years, new ideas about the design, architecture, recreation, culture and nature are constantly emerging. To this day, the Museumpark is still being adjusted. Learn more via this link: https://rotterdamarchitectuurmaand.nl/en/programme/item/time-tower/

🇳🇱 Geen hogere btw! Je belast er heel Nederland mee.⁠
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De voorgenomen btw-verhoging is een extra belasting op jouw cultuur, sport, horeca, boeken en media. Het is een extra belasting op je kostbare vrije tijd, op je nieuwsgierigheid, op het toejuichen van je favoriete voetbalteam, op het boek dat je wilt lezen, op je schilderij aan de muur, op je fanfare in de buurt, op een hotelovernachting in het land, op het tijdschrift in de trein, op de sportschool in de wijk, en op de krant die je op de hoogte houdt van de wereld om je heen.⁠
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Spreek je uit: www.geenhogerebtw.nl
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🇬🇧 No higher VAT! It Taxes All of the Netherlands.⁠
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The proposed VAT increase is an extra tax on your culture, sports, hospitality, books and media. It is an extra burden on your precious free time, on your curiosity, on cheering for your favorite football team, on the book you want to read, on your painting on the wall, on your marching band in the neighborhood, on a hotel stay in the country, on your magazine in the train, at the gym in the neighborhood, and on the newspaper that keeps you informed about the world around you.⁠
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Speak up: www.geenhogerebtw.nl
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During this week, there are all kinds of events on the calendar. Here is a short overview! ⁠

👕 Versatile Academy #1: Textile Wasteland
Versatile Forever, Fashion in Flux and Nieuwe Instituut invite Ghanaian artist Sel Kofiga for a performative lecture in collaboration with sound artist Phantom Wizard about post-consumer waste. After the performance, Kofiga will be joined by amongst others Brigitte Stepputtis (Global Head of Couture, Vivienne Westwood and Inez Naomi Correa Alves (founder Versatile Forever) for a panel talk.

🌴 Young NVTL Debate: A Palm Tree in the Polder
Young NVTL is organising an evening debate with a focus on the integration of non-native trees in landscape design. A panel of experts will lead the discussion, addressing important considerations such as ecological impact and aesthetic integrity. The evening provides an active and engaging exploration of the challenges and opportunities that climate change presents in shaping our natural environment.

🏠️ Final presentation: aHOUSEforHOME
In a pop-up presentation on the Deck of the Nieuwe Instituut, young Ukrainians will present their personal visions of reconstruction and future urban development – developed over the past three months in the aHOUSEforHOME architecture and urban planning laboratory. How do they see the city of the future? Where do they feel at home? And what do they want to (re)build to make their dreams come true?

🗺️ Platform of the Future: Interim Presentation
Participants of the design learning and research programme Platform of the Future: Each One Teach One present two episodes of their reality series of the same name. Eight 20-somethings from Rotterdam map the city’s culture and together design a future youth platform. They share their expectations, experiences and plans for the future.

⁠Learn more about the events via this link: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events

Thank you all for joining us during the Design Fair! ⁠✨🪑🪞🛋🎊⁠
Once again, the open-air market offered a remarkably diverse range of unique design items for every household and budget. ⁠

This year too, the fair served as a platform for young designers with The Young Design Section curated by interior stylist, art collector and curator Berry Dijkstra. The Dead Darlings Collective was back with their traditional design auction! Visitors enjoyed live music, workshops by Studio Nani and Arthur Guilleminot, snacks and drinks by Nieuwe Café. Pizzas were baked in Weltevree's outdoor oven and in the New Garden you could fully relax in a Dutchtub. In short: We had a blast during the Design Fair!⁠

📸 by Florine van Rees

During May, there are all kinds of events on the calendar. Here is a short overview!⁠

🎶 Steven Kamperman Performs his Maison Moderne
On the opening weekend of Rotterdam Architecture Month, Steven Kamperman will take us on a musical exploration of the atelier home of Nelly and Theo van Doesburg in Meudon-Val-Fleury.

👕 Fashion in Flux Showcase #1: Feeling Fashion
Fashion in Flux and Nieuwe Instituut are inviting FASHIONCLASH artistic director Branko Popovic to curate an afternoon inspired by the vision and work of Ghanaian artist, researcher and maker Sel Kofiga. Popovic will showcase Sel Kofiga’s latest textile work, work by emerging fashion makers, as well as performances related to the works on show.

🎙️Versatile Academy #1: Textile Wasteland
Versatile Forever, Fashion in Flux and Nieuwe Instituut invite Ghanaian artist Sel Kofiga for a performative lecture in collaboration with sound artist Phantom Wizard about post-consumer waste. After the performance, Kofiga will be joined by amongst others Brigitte Stepputtis (Global Head of Couture, Vivienne Westwood and Inez Naomi Correa Alves (founder Versatile Forever) for a panel talk.

🌴 Young NVTL Debate: A Palm Tree in the Polder
Young NVTL is organising an evening debate with a focus on the integration of non-native trees in landscape design. A panel of experts will lead the discussion, addressing important considerations such as ecological impact and aesthetic integrity. The evening provides an active and engaging exploration of the challenges and opportunities that climate change presents in shaping our natural environment.

🏠️ Final presentation: aHOUSEforHOME
In a pop-up presentation on the Deck of the Nieuwe Instituut, young Ukrainians will present their personal visions of reconstruction and future urban development – developed over the past three months in the aHOUSEforHOME architecture and urban planning laboratory. How do they see the city of the future? Where do they feel at home? And what do they want to (re)build to make their dreams come true?

And much more! ⁠Learn more about the events via this link: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events

During this week, there are all kinds of events on the calendar. Here is a short overview! ⁠
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🗺️ Back to the Future: On the role of scenarios in spatial planning⁠
The PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, the Board of Government Advisors (CRa), the Deltametropolis Association and the Nieuwe Instituut are hosting a symposium focusing on the role of scenarios in spatial planning. Aligned with the exhibition Designing the Netherlands, we shall explore the rich tradition of scenarios in spatial planning and anticipate future developments.⁠
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🇸🇷 Angisa Workshop with Carlien Macnack (session 3)⁠
Nieuwe Instituut is organising a series of workshops under the guidance of stylist and art teacher Carlien Macnack. ⁠
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🛍️ A new chance to borrow an EVJ bag⁠
Designer Elisa van Joolen and the Nieuwe Instituut are working together again in 2024. The designer and the institute are celebrating the renewed collaboration with a modest launch, and you can sign the contract to become a bag “caretaker” right away. Why not adopt one this spring?⁠
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🌱 Research Nights: Zoönomy in Practice⁠
This Research Night is about exploring the necessary steps to develop a regenerative economy, or ‘zoönomy’, that supports all life. Two experts present their practice and discuss them with each other and the participating audience.⁠
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⭐️ Thursday Night Detour with Laura⁠
In her Thursday Night Detour, Detour Guide Laura Grimm will explore the architectural elements which are part of the museum building: from a glass tower to a brick cube or a metal arch. Discover more about these shapes and create your own building.⁠
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📖 Book Launch: Architecture in the Netherlands Yearbook⁠
Publisher nai010 presents the 37th edition of the yearbook Architecture in the Netherlands. Published in collaboration with AIR, this overview of the past year in architecture is released to coincide with the start of Rotterdam Architecture Month. ⁠
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🕺 Invitation to the opening of Dutch, More or Less: Contemporary Architecture, Design and Digital Culture⁠
Join us at the Nieuwe Café for the festive opening of the presentation Dutch, More or Less: Contemporary Architecture, Design and Digital Culture!

What purpose do spatial scenarios and other foresight studies serve in these times of significant spatial transitions? How can we optimally employ scenarios to foster dialogue with politicians and society about the future of the Netherlands? On Tuesday, 28 May, the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, the Board of Government Advisors (CRa), the Deltametropolis Association and the Nieuwe Instituut are hosting a symposium focusing on the role of scenarios in spatial planning. Aligned with the exhibition Designing the Netherlands, we shall explore the rich tradition of scenarios in spatial planning and anticipate future developments.

🔵 Back to the Future: On the role of scenarios in spatial planning⁠
28 May 2024 | 13:30 - 17:30⁠
Learn more via this link: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events/scenarios-in-ruimtelijke-ordening

This Sunday the Design Fair will be back! Will we see you there?! ⁠
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Once again, the open-air market will offer a remarkably diverse range of unique design items for every household and budget. This year too, the fair will serve as a platform for young designers, presenting a specially selected group of up-and-coming makers. The Dead Darlings Collective will also be back with their traditional design auction. Visitors can also enjoy live music, workshops, snacks and drinks. ⁠
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Click this link: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events/design-fair-2024 for more information about the participating labels, designers and the programme. Entry to the Design Fair is free! ⁠
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🔵 Design Fair 2024⁠
26 May 2024 | 12:00 - 18:00

During this week, there are all kinds of events on the calendar. Here is a short overview! ⁠
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🎶 O. Festival First Dates: Kitty Lai Ngok-man & Kijan⁠
With First Dates, the O. Festival for Opera. Music. Theatre. brings together singers from different musical worlds and challenges them to perform together for the first time in the Nieuwe Instituut. ⁠
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🌱 BioBlitz010 at the Nieuwe Instituut Zoöp⁠
Nieuwe Instituut Zoöp is located in the middle of a surprisingly biodiverse environment. But what actually lives in “Rotterdam National Park”, as our neighbours from the Natural History Museum Rotterdam and its urban ecology research department Bureau Stadsnatuur call the city? ⁠
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🎙️International Clinic: Residencies⁠
During this International Clinic, we will explore the world of residencies through conversations with practitioners. They will share their experiences of recent residency programmes and how they have shaped their practice. ⁠
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🗺️ Thursday Night Detour with Jafeth⁠
Detour Guide Jafeth Hagoort takes you through the exhibition Designing the Netherlands. 100 Years of Past & Present Futures from his perspective as an architect.⁠
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🇸🇷 Angisa Workshop with Carlien Macnack (session 2)⁠
Nieuwe Instituut is organising a series of workshops under the guidance of stylist and art teacher Carlien Macnack. In three consecutive workshops, she will teach participants how to prepare a traditional Afro-Surinamese angisa and how to fold and wear it in different ways. ⁠
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🔨 Thursday Night Detour with Esmée⁠
Gain new creative insights during the free Thursday Night Detour with Detour Guide Esmée Dros through the exhibition Designing the Netherlands. 100 Years of Past & Present Futures.⁠
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🎨 An Evening with Jeanne Gang⁠
American architect Jeanne Gang has become world famous for her environmentally conscious approach to design, buildings and cities, and for her innovative material choices. With Aric Chen, Director of the Nieuwe Instituut, she will discuss how architects and designers can respond to the sustainability challenge.⁠
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⁠Learn more about all the events via this link: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events

Work in progress! ⁠🔨
On show from 31 May 2024, Dutch More or Less: Contemporary Architecture, Design and Digital Culture! This is a presentation of more than 30 years of Dutch design. Rather than retelling the history of Dutch design, it brings together the ideas, themes and projects that have placed Dutch designers at the forefront of international design. But how do they differ from other designers? And how has the image of “more or less Dutch” design evolved? Learn more via this link: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/dutch-more-or-less
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Images by Jeannette Slutter

Opening today!
Thursday May 16 2024 | 17h–19h⁠

Curated by Maureen Mooren, head of design at the Nieuwe Instituut and professor at the HGB, and Armand Mevis, graphic designer and head of Werkplaats Typografie, Forms of (ex-)Change invites graphic designers to explore change in relation to themes of personal importance. While the exhibition is about exchange, it is also the result of exchange – between disciplines and practices, and of knowledge and culture.

The creation of a graphic message is never a neutral exchange between sender and receiver, as the receiver’s interpretation, bias and personal background all come into play. It is also about inclusion and exclusion, cultural understanding and access. And since the audience has to interpret the work, there is always the risk that the makers’ message will be misunderstood. In Forms of (ex-)Change, the temporary collective of professional and student designers create a multi-layered image of exchange and change – the (ex-)change of their practice.
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Forms of (ex-)Change⁠
May 17–October 6, 2024⁠
Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam

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We're excited to share the news about the upcoming display Dutch, More or Less: Contemporary Architecture, Design and Digital Culture!n This new, long-term evolving exhibition celebrates the diversity of Dutch design within the three design disciplines represented by the Nieuwe Instituut. ⁠
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Dutch, More or Less: Contemporary Architecture, Design and Digital Culture is a presentation about more than 30 years of Dutch creative practice. Rather than simply telling the story of Dutch architecture, design, and digital culture, it aims to show how these disciplines have evolved from exploring what they are to what they can do, in a way that has placed the Netherlands at the forefront of international practice. What are the questions and issues they address? How has the image of “more or less Dutch” design evolved, and where does it go from here? With more than 65 contributions from designers, makers and agencies.⁠
Learn more via this link: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/articles/aankondiging-dutch-more-or-less

Last week we became an architect for a day during FamilieFest Buildingtingeling. 🔨✏️🍞🌱⁠
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Thank you for helping us build a city of lights, joining the take-over of the outside space of the museum, getting to know design secrets from real architects and found out how to look at the museum building through the eyes of non-human life. And when all this designing made us hungry, we build our own sandwiches at the Bread Bar. ⁠

Will you join us on the next adventure? Learn more via this link: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/projects/kinderen

Designer and the Nieuwe Instituut are working together again in 2024! From the end of May, the EVJ museum bag will be available once more: not a disposable carrier bag, but a handmade design object made from upcycled materials that you can take care of for a few months. The designer and the institute are celebrating the renewed collaboration with a modest launch, and you can sign the contract to become a bag “caretaker” right away. Why not adopt one this spring? 🛍️⁠
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The bags that you can adopt temporarily this year will be online on Wednesday 29 May at 20:00 on the special website evjbags.com. You can choose your favourite, sign a loan agreement using the online form, then pick up your choice from the lobby of the Nieuwe Instituut. Please note that you can only collect your chosen loan bag at one of the following three times: Thursday 30 May 2024, in the evening from 18:00; Sunday 9 June 2024, in the afternoon from 15:00 to 17:00; Sunday 23 June 2024, in the afternoon from 15:00 to 17:00.⁠
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Learn more about the via the link in bio.

During this week, there are all kinds of events on the calendar. Here is a short overview! ⁠
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🗺️ Thursday Night Detour with Jafeth⁠
Detour Guide Jafeth Hagoort takes you through the exhibition Designing the Netherlands. 100 Years of Past & Present Futures from his perspective as an architect.⁠
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🇸🇷 Thursday Night Detour with Shahaila⁠
Join Detour Guide Shahaila Winklaar for a free Thursday Night Detour through the exhibition Soengoe Kondre / Submerged Heritage and also explore the quirkiest aspects of the museum building.⁠
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📖 Book Launch – C.H. van der Leeuw: A Whimsical Idealist of Dutch Modernism⁠
Nieuwe Instituut and NAi Booksellers are celebrating the publication of a book about Rotterdam architecture patron Kees van der Leeuw, who, among other things, commissioned the construction of the Van Nelle factory. On this occasion, biographer Leonard Kooij, who has been campaigning for decades to preserve the factory as a world industrial heritage site, will discuss the relationship between the icons of modernism in Rotterdam and Dessau with Werner Möller, head of the Bauhaus Foundation’s collection. Our very own museum villa, Sonneveld House, plays a key role in the creation of the book and the exploration of “simultaneous modernism” in the two cities, to which the guests have already dedicated an exhibition in 2016.⁠
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⁠Learn more about the events via this link: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events

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🔵 An Evening with Jeanne Gang | 23 May 2024 | 19:30 - 21:00
American architect Jeanne Gang has become world famous for her environmentally conscious approach to design, buildings and cities, and for her innovative material choices. With Aric Chen, Director of the Nieuwe Instituut, she will discuss how architects and designers can respond to the sustainability challenge, introducing the new conceptual framework of “architectural grafting”, as explored in her recently published book. What lessons can architects and museums learn from the way that growers combine old and young plants, allowing them to become one and thrive together? The evening is organised in collaboration with the Independent School for the City.

After the huge success of the last two years, the Design Fair is back!
Once again, the open-air market will offer a remarkably diverse range of unique design items for every household and budget. This year too, the fair will serve as a platform for young designers, presenting a specially selected group of up-and-coming makers. The Dead Darlings Collective will also be back with their traditional design auction. Visitors can also enjoy live music, workshops, snacks and drinks.

More information about the participating labels, designers and the programme will follow soon. Entry to the Design Fair is free. Learn more via the link in bio.

🔵 Design Fair 2024
26 May 2024 | 12:00 - 18:00
Learn more via this link: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events/design-fair-2024

We are open today!
Come by and discover our exhibitions;

🤖 REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art is an exhibition featuring key works from 1960 to 2000, plus new interpretations by contemporary makers. REBOOT reveals the influence of digital technology on art and society. Alongside groundbreaking works by more than 20 artists. REBOOT is an initiative of Nieuwe Instituut and media art platform LI-MA.

✏️ Designing the Netherlands. 100 Years of Past & Present Futures
In the Netherlands, spatial planning is back on the drawing board, as government and architects try to find a response to the major societal and ecological challenges that affect us all, such as the climate crisis, housing, the energy transition and social justice. Designing the Netherlands is a collaboration with the Dutch Board of Government Advisors (CRa). With new design proposals as well as numerous examples from the architecture collection of the Nieuwe Instituut, this exhibition provides much-needed inspiration for a new vision of the design of our country.

🇸🇷 Soengoe Kondre / Submerged Heritage
The exhibition Soengoe Kondre / Submerged Heritage takes you to the interior of Suriname, the former Dutch colony on the Caribbean coast of South America, where an area covering 1560 km2 was submerged under water after the completion of the Afobaka dam in 1964. Built as the country was transitioning to full independence, which would come in 1975, the dam’s far-reaching consequences included the mass displacement of Maroons – the descendants of Africans enslaved under colonialism who, beginning in the 18th century, fought and escaped their bo***ge and established independent inland settlements.

🔨 Designing the Social
Designing the Social is an exhibition exploring 100 years of socially driven, idiosyncratic ideas about living together. Sometimes out of idealism, often out of pure necessity, alternative design strategies were developed in the pursuit of an equal society.

See and learn more about our exhibitions via this link: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/pages/now-on-display

We will be open next Monday (29 may)!
At the Nieuwe Instituut everything revolves around architecture, design and digital culture. Children, young people and their families discover here that everything around them is designed. There is plenty to do during this holiday!⁠
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🐙 Who What Which We⁠
Do you like to fly? Have you always wanted to be a part of a herd? Do you like putting down roots? Which questions can you ask to find out whether you are facing a dandelion, an octopus or a mushroom? Who What Which We challenges you to imagine yourself as an other-than-human life form. ⁠
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🤖 Maker’s space ‘Internew’⁠
On the occasion of the exhibition REBOOT. Pioneering Digital Art, a special ‘Maker’s Space’ has been developed where visitors of all ages can work on themes from the exhibition themselves. Designers and media artists Luuk Schipperheyn and Florian van Zandwijk ask visitors to use an interactive installation to try out what they would change if they were in charge of a new internet, the Internew.⁠
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🌱 Search for Zoöp⁠
Gather your entire family and go on exploration in and around the Nieuwe Instituut. In this museum about design, with everything we do, we work together with other living beings that are all around us, such as animals and plants. That is why our organisation calls itself a Zoöp. Go on exploration and discover in this Zoöp all the amoebas, geese and trees we work with and make friends for life!