Designer, researcher and consultant Paul Gerretsen of the Deltametropolis Association discusses metropolitan development in the Netherlands and Ukraine with invited guests Nazar Kovalenko, director of Municipal Enterprise Institute for Urban Development, and Alexander Shevchenko, co-founder of ReStart Ukraine. What lessons learned since the reconstruction of Rotterdam and its region could inform the future reconstruction of metropolitan areas in Ukraine? How to build on an initial recovery to create a stable, sustainable and innovative spatial practice? For example, which policy reforms in the field of spatial planning could contribute to the prosperity, infrastructure and quality of life in Ukraine and the Netherlands?

The One Minutes presents the November and December edition of their series, curated by BOLOHO. The BOLOHO Series consists of 38 one-minute films. BOLOHO Collective from Guangzhou, China created 18 One Minutes and invited artists and filmmakers from all over the world to respond. The submitted films were sent in from Belgium, China, France, Germany, Iceland, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Republic of Rwanda, Spain and the United Kingdom and will screen together with BOLOHO’s compilation.

In the second edition of Locating Enter the team behind this online platform investigates the relationship between access to cultural institutions by people with a (functional) limitation and the design and use of digital tools that can improve this access.

The Hmm is hosting a decentralised event that takes place simultaneously at four locations in four provinces in the Netherlands. Eight speakers will join across the four locations, with two of those speakers physically present at Het Nieuwe Instituut and a live broadcast of the speakers at Waag (Amsterdam), Impakt (Utrecht) and MU (Eindhoven). During this evening we will investigate whether or not being together in one place is important in order to create a sense of togetherness. 

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.

Cuban architect-duo Anadis Gonzales and Fernando Martirena, founders of Infraestudio, are the recipients of the Tilting Axis/Het Nieuwe Instituut Research Fellowship 2021/2022. During this evening they will present a series of fictional projects developed during the fellowship, which critically question the relationship between architectural design and current problems such as political transparency, the boycott of ecology, censorship, surveillance and punishment. Invited to join the conversation are Neyran Turan and Jonas Staal. This event is moderated by Federica Notari.

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 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.

This edition of Social Talks builds on the housing movement that has gained a new momentum. As a prelude to the Housing Futures weekend, in which conversations on spatial strategies for housing alternatives and non-normative ways of living will take place, the discussion during this evening will rethink how to document and preserve spatial, social and political strategies for current and future generations. What ways are there to document and preserve the tactics, practices and spaces related to alternative housing? 

In this edition of Archive Explorations, we take a look at examples of the ‘blueprint experiment’ and discuss the cross-disciplinary relationships between design and artistic practice and photography then and now. With contributions by Susanna Brown, Carolin Lange, Harm te Velde and Hetty Berens. The evening will be moderated by Ellen Smit.

During the fourth public gathering of Collecting Otherwise, the audience is invited to join the conversation as we softly close the first iteration, Seen/Unseen, and look forward to what the new year will bring.

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.

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.

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. 

Kunstinstituut Melly and Het Nieuwe Instituut are proud to co-present an evening programme of talks and parkour based on the legacy and 101-year anniversary of Constant Nieuwenhuys. The programme centres around Nieuwenhuys’ visionary Utopian architectural project New Babylon, as well as the landmark exhibition held in 1998/9 and curated by architecture historian Mark Wigley.

This Thursday Night Live! event marks the launch of the web publication, For the Record: On the Politics of Music Video Culture. With contributions by architect and urban theorist Dele Adeyemo, artist and cultural historian Sary Zananiri, graphic designer Koos Breen and creative coder Vera van de Seyp. Moderated by Marina Otero Verzier, Katía Truijen and Delany Boutkan.

What sort of tacit, embodied and social knowledge can we find in an archive? How can we activate that knowledge? What even constitutes an archive in architecture? And is there a craft to archiving itself? Join us as we discuss these questions and more with Albena Yaneva, who will present research on the tacit knowledge of archiving from her recent book Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy.

In a satirical manner, The Poetic Exhibition speaks and vents about alternative perspectives on contemporary dilemmas. In this edition, resilience is the main focus and through the intimate and diverse programme, hosted by Melanin Kris and comprising spoken word and visual thoughts arts, a look is taken at the question: "Before I Die I want to..." 

Since March 2020, the world has become a slower, quieter and more deliberate place, prompting a reevaluation of our priorities, rhythms and ways of living. This Design Dialogue features a talk by Ligia Nobre - architect, curator and current Het Nieuwe Instituut fellow (as a member of the collective O grupo inteiro). The talk is linked to her essay contribution to a new Valiz publication, the Slow Spatial Reader.

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?

What is the difference between an artistic and an academic interpretation of archival materials? What is the relationship between artistic freedom and creative reuse? How ‘open’ should a collection be? What role does research play in making art? And does art influence the working methods of institutional archives? We will discuss these and other questions about the creative reuse of heritage materials during the Open Archive symposium.

The Zoönomic Curriculum is intended for participants who are interested in starting their own zoöp or who want to become an active member of a Zoönomic Foundation. The programme is developed around the Zoönomic Method and trains the participants in the process of starting and developing a zoöp. 

To conclude the exhibition Art on Display 1949-69, Guus Beumer and Aric Chen will talk to the curators, Penelope Curtis and Dirk van den Heuvel, about what the show’s seminal designs by Carlo Scarpa, Aldo van Eyck, Lina Bo Bardi, Alison and Peter Smithson and others say about the role of exhibitions in addressing the urgencies of our times.

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 edition, Malique Mohamud is joined by Soortkill to talk about the origins, development and importance of slang.

During the second 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? Working group members, who are part of Disclosing Architecture, researchers Renan Laru-an and Yasmin Tri Aryani, curator Staci Bu Shea and artist Hannah Dawn Henderson will join the discussions on case studies presented during the event.

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 collaboration with Rewire Festival, Het Nieuwe Instituut presents For the Record: In Another Setting. This event explores design tactics for collective music experiences during the pandemic and beyond. With Alpha Rats (Japan), Archivo Auxiliar (Mexico), GLOR1A (UK), Volumetric Performance Toolkit (USA) and Jason King (USA).

The Zoönomic Curriculum is intended for participants who are interested in starting their own zoöp or who want to become an active member of a Zoönomic Foundation. The programme is developed around the Zoönomic Method and trains the participants in the process of starting and developing a zoöp. 

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.

The 5th Istanbul Design Biennial, with the theme Empathy Revisited: Designs for More Than One, enters its final days. Curated by Mariana Pestana with Sumitra Upham and Billie Muraben, the biennial will conclude with a day-long closing event Not quite a finissage! on 24 April 2021 while opening new works to the public at the same time. Co-hosted with the Design Museum and Het Nieuwe Instituut, the event will present design projects that encourage us to rethink practices of care and civility at this critical moment in time, and to collectively build new systems and structures for reconnecting.

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.

Within this public programme, you can interact with original works by 60 designers, engaging with research, process, and practice in entirely new formats.

From smooth Excel sheets to greedy algorithms, financial instruments and their agents are often intangible and invisible, yet increasingly constitute the blueprint for built forms. In the first iteration of Spreadsheet Architectures, the recent €289 mn sale of the Groot Handelsgebouw will serve as point of departure to trace flows of capital, identify anonymous proprietors and unpack revenue schemes and legal constructions. The event will reflect upon their ramifications with experts and protagonists, including Ewald Engelen, Michelle Provoost and Wendy Verschoor.

Transformation Design students from the Willem de Kooning Academy present their audio-visual work as a starting point for a conversation about the role of activism in art and design. The screening will be followed by a discussion between students and audience. Artist Artúr van Balen will also join the event to share his work, knowledge and experiences. The moderator will be Jannelieke Aalstein.

Curated by Salim Bayri, The One Minutes series for March/April 2021 is on the theme of Comfort and Vision. In one-minute videos, 21 artists and filmmakers explore how feelings of comfort affect what we see.

Het Nieuwe Instituut invites designers, researchers, archive managers and policy-makers to exchange ideas about Dutch designed-landscape heritage. Valuable archival pieces are currently being lost because the Netherlands lacks a national policy and an obvious home for these materials. So what is a workable solution that fits the present time and the available resources? And how can we work towards a National Collection of Garden and Landscape Architecture?

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.

The One Minutes Series of January/February 2021 is PⒶW, curated by Ceel Mogami de Haas and consisting of 26 one-minute videos in which artists and filmmakers explore the relationship between animals and poetry. The selected one-minute videos are from Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, The Netherlands, South Korea, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.

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.

The Coming South: Struggles, Epistemologies, Solidarity seeks to respond to the deepening divides that sustain the polarisation and hierarchy justifying the Global North - Global South world order. This world order is made manifest not just in global geopolitics but also in the micro-environments of urban spaces, defining formal and informal relationships that range from those between nation states to those between local communities. Generations of political militants, intellectuals and activists have engaged with these issues - issues that are only exacerbated today, during the pandemic, and in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008 which has demonstrated and worsened a number of other crises as the status quo of globalisation.

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 lecture by architect and researcher Godofredo Enes Pereira explores the consequences of lithium extraction in the Atacama Desert in Chile. This is the first in the Lithium lecture series, discussing the role of this element in different conditions of burn-out.

How are politics shaped by different cosmologies? A talk by Lukáš Likavčan, author of Introduction to Comparative Planetology.

John Palmesino from Territorial Agency on the Oceans in Transformation project.

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.

The opening of Art on Display 1949-69 on 3 October consisted of a full-day programme with a number of salons that welcomed a variety of guests for discussions about exhibition design and other topics. Recordings of the salons are now available online. 

14 visual artists and filmmakers imagine life after quarantine in The One Minutes series New Normalism. One-minute videos sent in from Belgium, Hungary, The Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom were selected for this edition, curated by Arnoud Holleman.

In the second episode of Collectivizations Jonas Staal interviews the revolutionary Coni Ledesma, a leading representative of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), on the importance of land, women’s liberations, and collective work in contemporary collectivization processes. Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, curator and expert on e-culture at Het Nieuwe Instituut, speaks with Debra Solomon, artist and founder of Urbaniahoeve Social Design Lab for Urban Agriculture in Amsterdam, on developing food forests, shaping new ecosystems in public spaces, and collectivizing as a multispecies endeavor.

Join us on Saturday 22 August for an evening of performances as part of the closing event for the installation, G/D THYSELF: Spirit Strategy On Raising Free Black Children, by international artists’ collective The Ummah Chroma.

On 14 July 2020, the presentation takes place of the first results of Values for Survival, the public research programme accompanying Who is We? – the Dutch contribution to the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Collectivizations is a series of online conversations exploring strategies and practices for turning trillion-dollar companies into new commons. Facebook, Amazon, Monsanto (Bayer), Google (Alphabet): how to transform these mega-corporations into new transnational cooperatives?

The latest Live from G/D THYSELF event features a virtual dance workshop by The Empress. Join her for We Travel Through the Dance Spirit of Time.

Designer, researcher and musician Erik Peters devised a digital detour to explore the design of the future. How do we represent ‘the future’ in the media, and what does speculative design look like?

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.  

This guest programme, organised by research project System of Systems, draws on the expertise of border specialists, media scholars and artists to explore the increasingly technological nature of Europe’s borders.

On May 31 and June 1 in collaboration with YouthDem and Het Nieuwe Instituut, Concrete Blossom is organising the on- en offline live-broadcast The Hoodie - Televised. With contributions from Lou Stoppard, Timothy Sabajo (Patta), Chinouk Filique, Richard Lopes Mendes (Clan de Banlieue), Jordan Soediono (SUMIBU), Abderrahmane Trabsini (Daily Paper) and a Bring Your Own Merch (BYOM) screenprinting hangout at Middellandplein in Rotterdam on Sunday.

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.

Artist and lawyer Shahaila Winklaar hosted this Sunday Scroll on 24 May 2020 on Facebook Live. This digital detour is an exploration of the theme of womanhood.

The latest Live from G/D THYSELF event features Rotterdam-based collective, The Sacred Boiling Tub. Join them for a perfomative sound meditation combing music, yoga and art.

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.

The third in an online series in which experts from various disciplines and the Thursday Night Live! team explore how the coronavirus is influencing different aspects of culture. This edition focuses on mental health and asks: what is the impact of isolation on mental well-being? Can we see a positive side to the misery caused by Covid-19? And how to help ourselves and others maintain a positive attitude?

Chef Asha Capella hosted the Sunday Scroll on 10 May on Facebook Live. This digital detour was an exploration of the design of food.

‘Art-directucator’ Pia Canales hosted this week’s Sunday Scroll (3 May) on Facebook Live. This digital detour was an exploration of themes she has an expertise in: the world of memes. What are memes, what is their history and what is the origin of their recognizable design?

Performer, writer and artist Bas van der Kruk hosted this week’s Sunday Scroll (19 April) on Facebook Live. His digital detour was focused on the hoodie and movement.

‘Art-directucator’ Pia Canales hosted the Sunday Scroll on 12 April on Facebook Live. This digital detour was an exploration of themes in The Hoodie exhibition that speak to her as a designer. Her scroll will focus on the hoodie in subcultures.

XYZ, instigated by Member Oksana Savchuk, is a non-periodic print magazine for text, photos, illustrations, video, theatre, poetry, music and (mixed) media. Every issue is made in 24 hours and is dedicated to one theme. The sixth edition of XYZ is all about the living room, and we are making it online.

Chef Asha Capella hosted the Sunday Scroll on 29 March 2020 on Facebook Live. This digital detour was an exploration of themes in The Hoodie exhibition that speak to her as a maker.

By 2024, every city in the Netherlands needs to have developed an environmental vision – the local translation of a new environmental law with fewer rules than before. Farid Tabarki leads a live discussion onlne on the future of the city, and the need to think about the values behind urban development in a fundamentally different way in response to the climate crisis.

This virtual panel discussion explores the impact of Covid-19 on Rotterdam’s cultural sector, the uncertain existence of freelancers in times of crisis, the urgent need for sustained investment and enlightened commissioning, and how to contribute to the survival of a healthy cultural field. With Jelena Barišić, Hasna El Maroudi, Sheree Lenting, Tarona Leonora and Derek Otte.