Het Nieuwe Instituut

A guided meditation created by artist Annika Kappner invites the visitor to explore the (bio) diversity and complexity of The New Garden.

Schemas of Uncertainty is a collective research project which addresses the notion of prediction, both as a long-standing interest of human beings through their histories, but also as inscribed into the techno-capitalist present. It does so in an attempt to understand how embracing uncertainty might become a gesture towards occupying an elsewhere and otherwise.

Through a collection of contributions that vary in format and mode of address, the ‘Schemas of Uncertainty’ book explores the relationship between prediction and prescription. It traces the effects predictive technologies have on the imagination of possible futures, futures other than that of technological progress. 

Despite being considered a non-scientific form of knowledge, astrology and algorithmic divination are undergoing an exponential rise in popularity on social media and beyond. Machine learning techniques, powered with NASA satellite data, are used to generate real-time insights into our futures, as the planets revolve around the Earth. Historically, there has been a close link between the occult and the development of scientific prediction models, tracing back to the forefathers of rational Enlightenment. Today, the very same algorithmic constellations that drive our data-driven knowledge economy, seem to offer a potential space for acknowledging failure, recursion and non-progress as natural parts of reality.

‘’I try to understand what I see. I see only what I understand. I have learnt to observe closely, just like you’. In de Thursday Night Workshop ‘Object Detection Roleplay’, Arthur Boer and Boris Smeenk invite you to discover more about how object detection algorithms ‘see’ based on a performative approach.

How can the tarot, and related divination practices, teach us to move differently through the city? How can we sense, fall into and out of, the layers of time that surround us in the city? Could using the tarot help us find new depth or new layers in the work of urbanists, architects and artists?

On Thursday 27 June BNO IMG LAB presents 'Lekker Stangen' at Het Nieuwe Instituut, a contradictory evening under the inspiring leadership of guest editor Stang Gubbels, who personally selected the speakers!

A group of graphic design students offers a critical review of the IPCC report on climate change.

“Scale Travel journeys give access to various embodied experiences across time and space, acquainting us with our intimate neighbours: from the microbiome living within and amongst us to the stars that shine upon the earth.”

Discover Neuhaus during a Sunday Stroll with Joëlle Hoogendoorn. She will show you around the academy from her perspective as an artist and art teacher.

In the summer of 2019 AFARAI, in collaboration with the users of The New Garden, have developed a programme of interventions, public events and conversations about unscripted public space.

Help us to design ‘The New Domestic Science School’ where ‘learning by doing’ is the way to transform how we care for our homes, our food, our belongings and the planet.

In this workshop with artist Andy Weir, participants work on 3D-printable digital designs to devise and invoke demonic personifications of the radioactive waste at the COVRA site in the Netherlands.

The exhibition Malware, curated by Bas van de Poel and Marina Otero Verzier, focusses on the most infamous examples of computer viruses. These form the starting point for an exploration of questions of security, warfare and geopolitics in times of rapid technological advance.

Departing from central issues of the Nuclear Anthropocene, the event will address the challenges of designing infrastructures for the deep future, marking contaminated sites for future generations, and strategies of dealing with nuclear waste in the Netherlands. Part of the Neuhaus curriculum, the event is organized in collaboration with Z33 House for Contemporary Art.

Opening of Malware, an exhbition on the history and evolution of the computer virus, including a lecture and discussion with media researcher Jussi Parikka and a festive opening moment with Malware curators Bas van de Poel and Marina Otero Verzier.

How do we tackle the transition to a circular economy at different scales of planning and governance? What consequences does this have for the development strategy of work locations? Do we reserve sufficient space in the right places for circular practices and businesses? How can we embed circular thinking in the current urbanization agenda?

Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Van Eesteren-Fluck & Van Lohuizen (EFL) foundation present Archive Explorations, an evening about architect and urban planner Cornelis van Eesteren. The event celebrates the occasion of the official transfer of the Van Eesteren archive to Het Nieuwe Instituut. Floor Milikowski, Arnold van der Valk and Linda Vlassenrood discuss their research, and Hetty Berens (Conservator, Het Nieuwe Instituut) shows highlights from the Van Eesteren archive. 

Fantasies On How To Strike is a short film on precarious labour that closely observes museum attendants in a Dutch museum. The film is based on a two-year research project on precarious labour in the Netherlands, and straddles the boundary between documentary and fiction. 

This year as a part of the celebration of the centenary of the Bauhaus; a codification of ‘the modern’ in a pedagogy that could produce the new world, the School for the Apocalypse will explore what the curriculum for post-human living and design could be in our current era.

Through a series of interactive sessions, KAAN Architecten will offer insight into how it positions itself in a shifting architectural practice from DBFMO tenders to the use of new design techniques in the office.

Under the Same Sun :: A Collective Blueprint invites participants to collectively investigate how sunlight informs our environment in space and time.

Hundreds of thousands of individual micro-organisms that are crucial for such things as oxygen level can float in one cubic metre of air. The experimental setup Aerobiome attempts to get a grip on these organisms by first making them visible.

Discover Neuhaus during a Sunday Stroll with Nevill Mitchell Martins. He will show you around the academy from his perspective as a music enthusiast, futurist and community director.

Help us to design ‘The New Domestic Science School’ where ‘learning by doing’ is the way to transform how we care for our homes, our food, our belongings and the planet.

Graduation Show of students in the two-year Master of Fine Art programme at the Piet Zwart Institute.

Join us on Thursday 11th July for the last Thursday Night Live! before the Summer break. Expect a sizzling Winter special in the Summer with a Christmas market, Christmas bite, Christmas music, performances and other happenings to remind us of climate change. An evening not to be missed.

In this third gathering in a series of workshops that lead to the establishment of a zoöp, the results of the previous one will be translated into the development of a prototype for an instrument that monitors such a cooperation between humans and collective bodies of non-humans.

After the Cloud, came the Fog. In the advent of a new computational metaphor, the mythical figure ‘Eliza Ludd’ from within the 19th-century Luddite revolts is excavated and re-actioned.

A walk through urban ecosystems in the Rotterdam cityscape, during which we can talk, eat, taste, harvest, pick and sow.

The Research Institute of Botanical Linguistics hosts a lunch and a workshop inspired by the social behaviour of plants and other entities.

The powerful Japanese pressure point massage technique, Shiatsu, allows participants to reconnect with their body. Joost van Veen sees the transforming effect of Shiatsu as an intriguing alchemical process.

Discover Neuhaus during a Sunday Stroll with Pia Canales. She will show you around the academy from her perspective as a professional observer and hyper-curious art lover.

A double book launch, part of the Multispecies Urbanism learning trail in the Neuhaus curriculum, initiates a cross-pollination between two recently published guidebooks to nature-inclusive design in the city.

Help us to design ‘The New Domestic Science School’ where ‘learning by doing’ is the way to transform how we care for our homes, our food, our belongings and the planet.

Learn to improve your selective auditory attention skills. In this workshop participants learn to heighten their focus and awareness in relation to sound, connecting to the whole space/time continuum. Pauline Oliveros and her deep listening practice inspired this workshop.

The Amenti Gathering offers community, connection, exchange, wisdom and love, all of which help us to better understand, broaden and deepen ourselves and the world. Guest speakers and artists share their knowledge on the theme of the evening with those present. Come, learn, enjoy, share and go deep!

Discover Neuhaus during a Sunday Stroll with Sven Jansse. He will show you around the academy from his perspective as an architect, photographer and artist.

Help us to design ‘The New Domestic Science School’ where ‘learning by doing’ is the way to transform how we care for our homes, our food, our belongings and the planet.

The powerful Japanese pressure point massage technique, Shiatsu, allows participants to reconnect with their body. Joost van Veen sees the transforming effect of Shiatsu as an intriguing alchemical process.

Discover Neuhaus during a Sunday Stroll with Bas van der Kruk. He will show you around the academy from his perspective as a performer, writer and artist.

In this workshop participants will engage with human-sand-relationships in the context of Rotterdam.

In the performative lecture ‘What Does Not Kill You’ Inès Leverrier Péborde explores the concept of toxins. By reconstructing an ancient wonder drug and combining it with images, objects, myths and anecdotes from the past and present, she shows how the significance of toxins has changed over time.

Discover Neuhaus during a Sunday Stroll with Sven Jansse. He will show you around the academy from his perspective as an architect, photographer and artist.

Help us to design ‘The New Domestic Science School’ where ‘learning by doing’ is the way to transform how we care for our homes, our food, our belongings and the planet.

Hundreds of thousands of individual micro-organisms that are crucial for such things as oxygen level can float in one cubic metre of air. The experimental setup Aerobiome attempts to get a grip on these organisms by first making them visible.

Sugar: A Cosmology is a participatory design research project seeking to grow a rhizomatic alternative history of the rise of modernity/coloniality, from the perspective of sugar.

Discover Neuhaus during a Sunday Stroll with Pia Canales. She will show you around the academy from her perspective as a professional observer and hyper-curious art lover.

Help us to design ‘The New Domestic Science School’ where ‘learning by doing’ is the way to transform how we care for our homes, our food, our belongings and the planet.

Learn to improve your selective auditory attention skills. In this workshop participants learn to heighten their focus and awareness in relation to sound, connecting to the whole space/time continuum. Pauline Oliveros and her deep listening practice inspired this workshop.

This year as a part of the celebration of the centenary of the Bauhaus; a codification of ‘the modern’ in a pedagogy that could produce the new world, the School for the Apocalypse will explore what the curriculum for post-human living and design could be in our current era.

The Amenti Gathering offers community, connection, exchange, wisdom and love, all of which help us to better understand, broaden and deepen ourselves and the world. Guest speakers and artists share their knowledge on the theme of the evening with those present. Come, learn, enjoy, share and go deep!

The powerful Japanese pressure point massage technique, Shiatsu, allows participants to reconnect with their body. Joost van Veen sees the transforming effect of Shiatsu as an intriguing alchemical process.

Discover Neuhaus during a Sunday Stroll with Nevill Mitchell Martins. He will show you around the academy from his perspective as a music enthusiast, futurist and community director.

Help us to design ‘The New Domestic Science School’ where ‘learning by doing’ is the way to transform how we care for our homes, our food, our belongings and the planet.

This year as a part of the celebration of the centenary of the Bauhaus; a codification of ‘the modern’ in a pedagogy that could produce the new world, the School for the Apocalypse will explore what the curriculum for post-human living and design could be in our current era.

A guided meditation created by artist Annika Kappner invites the visitor to explore the (bio) diversity and complexity of The New Garden; to connect himself to his surroundings and experience the hybrid, seemingly conflicting elements of the environment through the senses.

Discover Neuhaus during a Sunday Stroll with Joëlle Hoogendoorn. She will show you around the academy from her perspective as an artist and art teacher.

Other Voices is a four-day workshop dedicated to ‘other voices’—lost, marginal, withdrawn, or otherwise repressed voices from the past, the present and the future. What and where are (were) dissident voices that resist hegemonic power structures and confirmative social constraints? How do ‘other voices’ inspire and encourage us to imagine resistance differently?

Help us to design ‘The New Domestic Science School’ where ‘learning by doing’ is the way to transform how we care for our homes, our food, our belongings and the planet.

(Workshop)

Proxies on Trial puts everyday objects in the dock. They are accused of ‘crimes’ such as climate change, financial crises or 90s music. The result is a fictional debate about how to deal with complex cases of (partly non-human) collective authorship.

(Performance)

Proxies on Trial puts everyday objects in the dock. They are accused of ‘crimes’ such as climate change, financial crises or 90s music. The result is a fictional debate about how to deal with complex cases of (partly non-human) collective authorship.

Sugar: A Cosmology is a participatory design research project seeking to grow a rhizomatic alternative history of the rise of modernity/coloniality, from the perspective of sugar.

Discover Neuhaus during a Sunday Stroll with Bas van der Kruk. He will show you around the academy from his perspective as a performer, writer and artist.

Help us to design ‘The New Domestic Science School’ where ‘learning by doing’ is the way to transform how we care for our homes, our food, our belongings and the planet.

The House of Being in collaboration with Neuhaus is proud to present the School for the Apocalypse. This year as a part of the celebration of the 100 years’ anniversary of the Bauhaus; a codification of ‘the modern’ in a pedagogy that could produce the new world, the School for the Apocalypse will explore what the curriculum for a post-human living and design would be in our current era.

Listen to the city in a different way. During this walk through Rotterdam, PolakVanBekkum let you experience what it’s like to listen with ears that are further apart than you’re used to. A spatial experience simulating that of large objects in the city: a different reality.

Under the Same Sun :: A Collective Blueprint invites participants to collectively investigate how sunlight informs our environment in space and time.

Listen to the city in a different way. During this walk through Rotterdam, PolakVanBekkum let you experience what it’s like to listen with ears that are further apart than you’re used to. A spatial experience simulating that of large objects in the city: a different reality.

The Amenti Gathering offers community, connection, exchange, wisdom and love, all of which help us to better understand, broaden and deepen ourselves and the world. Guest speakers and artists share their knowledge on the theme of the evening with those present. Come, learn, enjoy, share and go deep!

Discover Neuhaus during a Sunday Stroll with Joëlle Hoogendoorn. She will show you around the academy from her perspective as an artist and art teacher.

Help us to design ‘The New Domestic Science School’ where ‘learning by doing’ is the way to transform how we care for our homes, our food, our belongings and the planet.

A mini symposium about organic architecture from historical and recent perspectives. We will talk with a group of architects, designers, landscape architects and artists who organized meetings on architecture, nature and art in the 1970s and 1980s.

Listen to the city in a different way. During this walk through Rotterdam, PolakVanBekkum let you experience what it’s like to listen with ears that are further apart than you’re used to. A spatial experience simulating that of large objects in the city: a different reality.

Listen to the city in a different way. During this walk through Rotterdam, PolakVanBekkum let you experience what it’s like to listen with ears that are further apart than you’re used to. A spatial experience simulating that of large objects in the city: a different reality.

A guided meditation created by artist Annika Kappner invites the visitor to explore the (bio) diversity and complexity of The New Garden; to connect himself to his surroundings and experience the hybrid, seemingly conflicting elements of the environment through the senses.

Discover Neuhaus during a Sunday Stroll with Sven Jansse. He will show you around the academy from his perspective as an architect, photographer and artist.

Vertical Atlas is a research project in five chapters, aimed at the creation of a new atlas to navigate the complex techno-geographies of the world today. The fourth edition: Futures.gcc, focusses on the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. These position themselves as competing digital, corporate service platforms and each brand themselves with their own futuristic architecture, megacities, investment opportunities and visions of artificial futures.

Reuse of digital collections in museums and archives produces new stories in potentially surprising, innovative forms. Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision invite makers to create new work using archive items from their digital collections. 

This exhibition considers the role of a fashion garment as a socio-political carrier. The hoodie is a staple of contemporary dress, hyped as a trend and a must-have item; but elsewhere it is also a topic of moral panic, banned by certain institutions and dissected by the media as an emblem of inequality, crime or deviancy.Curated by writer and curator Lou Stoppard.