Het Nieuwe Instituut

From Thursday 30 March 2017 the installation Fight, Squat, Resist: Housing Alternatives of Social Movements will be on view as part of Architecture of Appropriation, a long-term research project on squatting as a form of architecture, now on at Het Nieuwe Instituut. 

The architecture and interiors of De Stijl are famous around the world. Dutch architects and designers like Gerrit Rietveld, Theo van Doesburg, Cornelis van Eesteren and J.J.P. Oud blazed the trail for generations of progressive thinkers who came after them. The historical roots of De Stijl are less well-known. This summer, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and Het Nieuwe Instituut present an overview of drawings, architectural models and examples of furniture by members of the influential art movement. Exhibited side by side for the first time ever, the works offer surprising insights: what seems simple and straightforward at first sight proves to be ambiguous and complex. And what appears new may turn out not to have been.

To mark the De Stijl centenary, which is being celebrated under the theme 100 years of De Stijl. From Mondriaan to Dutch Design, PostNL has joined forces with Het Nieuwe Instituut and The Gemeentemuseum in The Hague to produce a set of ten postage stamps. The De Stijl stamps bear images of masterpieces from both museums’ collections. This summer’s ‘pop-in expo’ at Het Nieuwe Instituut will show the context in which this stamp collection, designed by PutGootink designers, was made. The exhibition contains a film about the process of making the stamps, a masterpiece from the Theo van Doesburg collection, and a contemporary wallpaper design inspired by De Stijl.

The super bright colours of Vlisco, also known as Wax Hollandais, have already been popular for 170 years in many African countries. They were, until recently, relatively unknown in the Netherlands, but their popularity has rapidly grown in the last few years. Adult participants can make a tote bag from the available Vlisco material in The New Haberdashery. Children can make their own colourful prints with a variety of painting techniques.

There will be two cross-stitching workshops in The New Haberdashery, one for adults and one for children. The adults can make a beautifully cross-stitched corsage with embroidery thread and special haberdasheries. The children can draw with needle and thread. If the weather is good, participants will work in The New Garden where the plentiful array of plants and flowers forms a source of inspiration.

Are you ready for the beach on your summer holidays? No swimwear yet? No sweat: join our workshop on swimwear in The New Haberdashery on Sunday 23 July and Sunday 13 August. Children are invited to make a kite for the beach.

A good summer shirt is essential in any wardrobe. In the workshop Sunny summer shirt participants of all ages can make their own summer shirt, using the available patterns and materials.

Gediminas and Nomeda Urbonas from Urbonas Studios will explore the notion of protest in the context of their interdisciplinary research, which advocates for the reclamation of public culture in the face of overwhelming privatization.

Digital sustainability needs heritage professionals to have the right knowledge and skills, now, and in the future. Have we already reached that point? Does the available knowledge already sufficiently meet the demand? And what is that demand, exactly?

Planning an international career in the arts or looking for advice about an international cultural project? Come to one of the monthly Information Point clinic with DutchCulture and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.

This Design Dialogue brings together a group of practitioners whose practices engage creatively or critically with Instagram. With Steyn Bergs, Florianne Misslin and Alessandro Bava.

An evening in collaboration with Playgrounds Festival, with typography, illustration and moving arts. With three designers from the world of motion graphics, focussing on their own discipline.

A kaleidoscopic evening of architectural photography taking the State Archive of Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning as its starting point. Contributions by photographer Frank van der Salm, architect Mels Crouwel, author Sanneke van Hassel, photographer Johannes Schwartz, conservator Ellen Smit, and restorer Erica Jonkman.

Writers, poets, thinkers and designers celebrate and analyse the richness of the Dutch landscape on the occasion of the 180th anniversary edition of the literary magazine De Gids. A conversation between author and philosopher Dirk van Weelden, moderated by Marten Kuijpers and interspersed with readings by the writers and poets Maria Barnas, Peer Wittenbols, Sasja Janssen and Maarten van der Graaff.

Planning an international career in the arts or looking for advice about an international cultural project? Come to one of the monthly Information Point clinic with DutchCulture and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.

After the first three talks on ministerial ambitions, power and hard facts, the Ministry of Spatial Affairs wants to lay out it's new foundations. What should the Ministry know to create an effective new policy?

For its Fourth Annual Conference, the Jaap Bakema Study Centre will host the fifth thematic conference of the European Architecture History Network, The Tools of the Architect, in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of TU Delft. The conference is scheduled for November 22-24, 2017. On the afternoon of November 23, the conference will move to Het Nieuwe Instituut, where a series of paper sessions and a keynote lecture by Michiel Riedijk will take place.