Het Nieuwe Instituut

Workshop, part of Technologies of Certain Bodies, developed in the context of the exhibition WORK, BODY, LEISURE, the Dutch Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2018. This project is a collaboration between the Research Center for Material Culture and the Research Department of Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.

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.

This Thursday Night Live! event aims to make a case for admitting the document into the practical and theoretical imaginary of graphic design.

BNO IMG LAB will present image makers with a feeling for typography. When words make sentences, typography makes the image. What role do fonts play in a design?
 

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.

Studio Visits is a series of evenings dedicated to contemporary architectural practice, its challenges and its possibilities. This evening, Lilith Ronner van Hooijdonk invites professionals, students and the broader public to cross the threshold, take a peek into the architect’s workplace and join the conversation.

The fourth episode of Garden Broadcast looks at the relationship between botany, exploration, and the dual nature of preservation and immortality.

The architect Arna Mačkić is concerned with questions of collective identity in countries and cities, and in how architecture can play a mediatory role. In this workshop she introduces participants to her way of thinking, leading to a more inclusive approach to the design of public space.

Join us for the Members and Workspace Cocktail Night and meet fellow Members, Workspace creatives and Het Nieuwe Instituut staff members. The evening starts after the last Thursday Night Live! of the season.

Lab 3: Terrafiction will focus on the narrative development of a new 21st-century society, and will lead to a small collection of written or visualized speculative short stories set in the world that is laid out by the work of the previous Labs.

The 2018 edition of the annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre is dedicated to Aldo and Hannie van Eyck. In honour of their achievements and as a celebration of their work, the conference aims to bring together scholars and practitioners to explore the rich legacy of their ideas and aspirations for a humanist architecture.