Het Nieuwe Instituut

Het Nieuwe Instituut’s production location turns visitors into digital designers. In Long Live the Future! families design the world in the year 2520. And if you’re a designer of the future, anything is possible.

With this exhibition, the collective Rare moves away from perfectly finished images, detailed plans and coherent ideas, instead focusing our attention on simple drawings, quick notes, models and the variety of different analytical methods used in academia to convey ideas. 

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 the first edition, Munganyende Hélène Christelle and Wes Mapes join Concrete Blossom to talk about the philosophy of Gucci Mane (‘the sauce’), knowledge in our social circles, and the embodiment of this knowledge in a westernised society. 

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.

On Monday 26 April, Open Archive and ARIAS collaboratively organise Re:Use Clinic #2: Uncertain Archives, Ethical Dilemmas, a public event for heritage professionals, artists and other interested parties, in the creative reuse of heritage collections.

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. 

Het Nieuwe Instituut and designer Elisa van Joolen introduce EVJ, a series of tote bags made from used plastic bags that will be available to borrow. In the second edition of Design Dialogues on 6 May, Van Joolen will be joined by archaeologist Maikel Kuipers, philosopher Patricia de Vries, designer Karim Adduchi, journalist Lynn Berger and experienced bag-caretakers at Het Nieuwe Instituut. The conversation will be about taking care of things that aren’t ours, imbuing the disposable with value, and answering the question: what happens when an ordinary object becomes something in our care?

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).

Het Nieuwe Instituut cordially invites you to the online opening programme of Who is We?, the official Dutch contribution to the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, on 20 May 2021, at 12 noon (CET).