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Wey dey move is a Nigerian Pidgin term with multiple interpretations. It can mean “the path changes”, or describe the cultural phenomenon of things changing. It’s also the title and heartbeat of this exhibition. Wey Dey Move celebrates the important role movement and dance play in the spiritual, social, and ecological cultures of Lagos, Nigeria, and other major cities in West Africa. 

The exhibition Just In #1 presents ten archival items that have been added to the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning in recent years. They are the first fruits of a collection policy that is increasingly focusing on current social themes, feminist practice and the decolonisation of the collection.

Het Nieuwe Instituut is launching an open call for (individual) curators, designers and collectives to send a proposal for the Dutch presentation at the London Design Biennale 2023 ‘The Global Game: Remapping Collaborations.’

In Gallery 3, nine photographs document the flushed allergic reaction of certain individuals to alcohol. Podcasts describe the subjects' relationship to alcohol, the flush, and how it connects Asian and Western cultures.

The Sunne Experience is an immersive installation that draws you closer to the sun and is powered by it. The installation consists of several solar Sunne lights – Sunne Rise, Sunne Light, and Sunne Set – that mimic the daily solar cycle while a soundscape surrounds you with the sun’s vibrations.

The Solar Biennale, an initiative of solar designers Marjan van Aubel and Pauline van Dongen, counterbalances the prevailing technological and economic viewpoints on solar energy. For seven weeks, the biennale focuses on the human angle: a solar-powered world goes beyond scientific research and uniform solar panels, after all. Cultural practices and place-specific energy needs also determine how the post-carbon future will develop.  

Menyunting Arsip / Editing the Archive. Resequencing the Tillema Collection is an experimental documentary film. Paoletta Holst and Paolo Patelli produced it during a series of workshops and exhibitions over the last couple of years, initiating a participatory kind of archival filmmaking.

The School presents Space in the City in Gallery 3 of Het Nieuwe Instituut, a story of The School in 12 chapters.

Deep Time Agency proudly presents its first solo exhibition at Het Nieuwe Instituut.

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.

Every Thursday night a Detour Guide takes you on a free Detour through one of the exhibitions on display at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Discover design, digital culture and architecture from the perspective of your guide. Every Detour is different: you might end up working on a joint choreography or designing a space for insects.

The Werkgroep Caraïbische Letteren celebrates its lustrum with the tenth Caribbean Literature Day, which this year is devoted to “the great precursors”. During the event, the working group will present the collection of essays Dat wij zongen. Twintig Caraïbische schrijvers om nooit te vergeten, published in collaboration with Das Mag. During the afternoon, under the guidance of moderator Sarita Bajnath, editors Raoul de Jong and Julien Ignacio join several authors from the collection to ask the question: who are our heroes? There are also contributions from writer Charlotte Doornheim and literary scholar Michiel van Kempen, plus a real mystery guest. It all adds up to one harmonious, musical whole: Alles is Anana.

In their new book, The Office of Good Intentions, architects Florian Idenburg and LeeAnn Suen and photographer Iwan Baan take a trip through the American office from the 1970s to the present - and into the future. Join us for this evening exploration of their findings. Florian Idenburg and Iwan Baan will be present. With contributions by Charlie Koolhaas and Nanne de Ru, the event will be moderated by Nick Axel.

Share the fascinations of Het Nieuwe Instituut's research team and learn more about the largest 3D-printed object in the world.

Every Thursday night a Detour Guide takes you on a free Detour through one of the exhibitions on display at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Discover design, digital culture and architecture from the perspective of your guide. Every Detour is different: you might end up working on a joint choreography or designing a space for insects.

 For an evening marking the 20^th anniversary of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), Aric Chen, Het Nieuwe Institute’s Creative and General Director, joins Saskia van Stein (Director of the IABR), Kristin Feireiss (IABR pioneer) and Léa-Catherine Szacka (co-curator of this year’s IABR). What has changed over the past 20 years in cultural production, place-making and the role of architecture biennales?

The Working on common ground workshops explore the sensitivities, organisational tactics and larger scale strategies required to foster multispecies communities and societies.

Sourcebook explores and showcases the ‘re-search impulses’ of artists Mandy El-Sayegh and Helena Hunter through their conceptual, material and structural coincidences. Curated by Renan Laru-an, this pop-up exhibition can be seen in Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Research Centre until the end of 2022. It is shown alongside research and archival material from the National Collection and the institute’s Collecting Otherwise project, which aims to explore, reclaim and re-narrate archival research methods and tools.

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 pop-up manifestation.

Every Thursday night a Detour Guide takes you on a free Detour through one of the exhibitions on display at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Discover design, digital culture and architecture from the perspective of your guide. Every Detour is different: you might end up working on a joint choreography or designing a space for insects.

Network Archives Design and Digital Culture (NADD) presents the exhibition Archives at Risk at Microlab. With the help of a number of endangered archives, the exhibition illustrates the importance of an accessible and well-preserved Dutch ‘design memory’.

Join us for the opening of Open Archive, or celebrate the launch of Vertical Atlas, a book and online publication to help us navigate through today's technological reality.

Every Thursday night a Detour Guide takes you on a free Detour through one of the exhibitions on display at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Discover design, digital culture and architecture from the perspective of your guide. Every Detour is different: you might end up working on a joint choreography or designing a space for insects.

Following the launch on 27 October 2022 of the book and online publication Vertical Atlas - the result of a multi-year research programme by Het Nieuwe Instituut and Hivos - an exhibition will be on view in Gallery 3.

Together with Sound & Vision and the International Institute of Social History, Het Nieuwe Instituut is organising the third edition of Open Archive, in which four makers search open digital heritage collections for new stories, with new media works as the end result.

Heritage innovates. It does this partly through technological progress, but mainly by questioning current practice. A collection is not a neutral representation of the past, but acquires meaning through interactions with, and interpretations of, new generations of users. This means that heritage must, by definition, be future-oriented. At the conference Disclosing Futures – Rethinking Heritage, on 2 and 3 November in Het Nieuwe Instituut, we will discuss the reorientation of the role of heritage, and innovation as a condition for sustainable collection management.

Heritage innovates. It does this partly through technological progress, but mainly by questioning current practice. A collection is not a neutral representation of the past, but acquires meaning through interactions with, and interpretations of, new generations of users. This means that heritage must, by definition, be future-oriented. At the conference Disclosing Futures – Rethinking Heritage, on 2 and 3 November in Het Nieuwe Instituut, we will discuss the reorientation of the role of heritage, and innovation as a condition for sustainable collection management.

Each Detour Guide brings their unique perspective as a dancer, teacher or designer to these hour-long tours one Sunday every month. In collaboration with the Triennale di Milano, Het Nieuwe Instituut expands its Detours to include local Milanese makers trained by the Dutch team.

Each Detour Guide brings their unique perspective as a dancer, teacher or designer to these hour-long tours one Sunday every month. In collaboration with the Triennale di Milano, Het Nieuwe Instituut expands its Detours to include local Milanese makers trained by the Dutch team.

An ode to nature and the conscious practice of being in the moment, This Too Shall Pass is a personal project by photographer Rein Kooyman. It documents a journey of self-discovery and acceptance through the nature of the French Alps. The exhibition in Gallery 3 presents a series of photographs in which he captures the process of painting giant boulders using natural pigments. 

If design can help us to counter the ongoing ecological devastation of the earth, and can support the cultivation of mutually supportive relations between humans and non-humans, this should inform not only the cultural imagination, but also governmental policies, legal frameworks, and broader social infrastructures.

The Working on Common Ground conference takes its starting point in Have we met?, the Dutch contribution to the 23rd Triennale Milano. In Working on common ground, Het Nieuwe Instituut, who put the exhibition together, collaborates with cheFare, agency for cultural transformation from Milan. The conference investigates the Dutch and Italian environments to discover both overlapping characteristics and location-specific aspects of two ecological realities and explores the potential for fostering  multispecies communities.

Each Detour Guide brings their unique perspective as a dancer, teacher or designer to these hour-long tours one Sunday every month. In collaboration with the Triennale di Milano, Het Nieuwe Instituut expands its Detours to include local Milanese makers trained by the Dutch team.

Each Detour Guide brings their unique perspective as a dancer, teacher or designer to these hour-long tours one Sunday every month. In collaboration with the Triennale di Milano, Het Nieuwe Instituut expands its Detours to include local Milanese makers trained by the Dutch team.

Het Nieuwe Instituut has been appointed Artistic Director of the fourth edition of the London Design Biennale, which takes place from 1 to 25 June 2023 at Somerset House. Led by its General and Artistic Director, Aric Chen, Het Nieuwe Instituut aims to experiment with the biennale’s format of national and territorial pavilions through the theme The Global Game: Remapping Collaborations.