Het Nieuwe Instituut

According to the platform nextcity.nl, a strong ecosystem and rich biodiversity are the basis for a higher quality of life for all species, and a fundamental responsibility of their designers. This pop-in expo, 'Building for Biodiversity’, shows the entry of students of Maike van Stiphout and Mathias Lehner (nextcity.nl), who focus on building for biodiversity.

Marjan van Aubel will be re-presenting The Netherlands during the London Design Biennale with Power Plant, the world's first self-powering greenhouse.

From September to March 2019, the blue upholstered strap chair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1924 will be on show at Sonneveld House, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s museum house. For Het Nieuwe Instituut this forms the prelude to the institute’s own programme of Bauhaus-related activities beginning in the spring of 2019. 

The Institute of Patent Infringement, a project that is part of the extended programme of WORK, BODY, LEISURE is programmed at the London Design Festival at the V&A. 

Island.eu lab, part of the Vertical Atlas series, is devoted to collective research and the creation of a map of the current European geozone, within which different techno-political sovereignties clash.

The 2018 Work Marathon invites artists, sociologists, anthropologists, writers, musicians, architects, scientists and philosophers to address the complex and timely questions of work, labour, automation and leisure.

Following on from 2016’s Queering Architecture seminar, the Jaap Bakema Study Centre is organizing another event around the theme. On this occasion Joel Sanders, architect and professor at Yale University, will give a lecture about diversity and inclusivity in architecture, based on the notion of the ‘noncompliant body’.

Playgrounds is the annual conference on design for film, animation and media in Eindhoven. During Playgrounds Session at Het Nieuwe Instituut the works of leading artists and designers will be previewed. A celebration of the creative image.

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.

Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2018 prelude with the screening of the film Away From All Suns at Het Nieuwe Instituut.

MVRDV was founded in 1993 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. The organization now numbers 200 architects, designers, urban planners and service staff who develop projects through a multi-disciplinary, iterative, and collaborative design process involving rigorous technical, creative and innovative investigation.

Art historian Tim Benton will speak on the restoration of Eileen Gray's Villa E-1027 at Cap Martin on the Côte d'Azur. After years of campaigning to organise the restoration and preservation of this modernist villa, Gray's masterpiece finally opened to the public in 2015. 

Bot Club takes a critical look at the social effects of predicting crime using algorithms. With speakers Nirid Peled and Fieke Jansen.

On Thursday 18 October three new exhibitions open to the public. Speculative Design Archive, Habitat: Expanding Architecture and Prix de Rome Architecture 2018 each examine the remains of our material and spatial design culture from their own perspective.

Habitat: Expanding Architecture is a research installation which captures a key moment in the history of architecture and urban planning: the tenth CIAM conference at Dubrovnik in 1956. Here the concept 'habitat' was a central theme: a broader understanding of architecture through a new ecological approach viewing architecture less as an autonomous discipline than as part of larger, dynamic whole.

In the autumn of 2018, Het Nieuwe Instituut will be temporarily transformed into a design archive. We will be displaying prototypes, sketches, samples of materials, colour schemes and other significant work in the development of the oeuvres of a range of Dutch designers; work which therefore deserves to be preserved and shared. Such silent testimony to the process of design is all too frequently neglected. In practice, designers don't usually have the space, time or expertise to store such valuable repositories of knowledge. 

This event will examine and discuss the music video Apeshit by the Carters, also known as Beyoncé and Jay-Z. The choreography and the selected artworks from the Louvre collection will form the basis for a debate on forms of representation, performance and decolonizing cultural institutions. Invited speakers are Davide Belotta (dancer and choreographer), Martine Gosselink (head of collections of the Rijksmuseum) and Imara Limon (curator Amsterdam Museum). The evening will be moderated by Shay Kreuger.

BNO IMG LAB presents designers that use unusual materials for design purposes, transforming materials and applying smart reuse. Designing by mixing and remixing, making grateful use of what is already there.

In celebration of the retrospective exhibition EARTH at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Metahaven will deliver a lecture based on fragments from Hometown (2018), exploring the themes and issues of the film.

For architect Oksana Savchuk, walking helps us to bring body, mind and space together. In the workshop Walking Architecture Savchuk challenges you to visualise your latest or daily route from memory.

This evening BNO IMG LAB presents young artists who recently gratuaded from the art academies. These artists are ready and persistent to conquer the world with their creative urge. The young and the restless!

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.

What is the role of the designer in a world that revolves around fast fashion? Design for Longevity is a design philosophy that aims to prolong the lifespan of garments. In this workshop we explore design thinking by focusing on disruptive design principles, such as hacktivism, modularity and non-material design solutions. Starting with love letter writing to your favourite garment as a research method.