Material innovation
New Material Award
The New Material Award invites artists and designers to present designs that offer innovative solutions to the issues of today and the challenges of tomorrow. Each project should integrate new materials, or innovative ways of using materials.
Finders Keepers
The Life of Things
As the curators of the exhibition Finders Keepers, the editors of the design and crafts magazine MacGuffin reveal the universe of the collector, bringing together objects from dozens of collections and exploring the collectors’ strategies, the aesthetic pleasure of collecting and the hidden life of things.
Opening 12 February
12 February is the opening of the intervention A Mental Image – Blavatsky Observatory in Sonneveld House by artist and architect Santiago Borja. On this evening Het Nieuwe Instituut is also looking forward to the coming season of the Temporary Fashion Museum during the New Season Night.
The New Haberdashery
Studio and workshops
The New Haberdashery was established as part of the Temporary Fashion museum. It is a studio in which visitors can try their hand at making clothes and other textile products.
Temporary Fashion Museum
Many Dutch museums include fashion within their collections but there has never been a national fashion museum. Over a period of eight months Het Nieuwe Instituut will explore the possibilities of such an institution by transforming itself into a fashion museum. The entire building will be utilised for this temporary experiment.
New Material Award 2014
Presenting the work of 16 nominees
Het Nieuwe Instituut presents the work of sixteen designers, artists and architects who are nominated for the New Material Award 2014. The New Material Award challenges artists, designers and architects to create and present designs featuring the use of new materials and innovative techniques that contribute to a better and sustainable society.
Design Fiction
Willem de Kooning Academy students offer a glimpse into the future
What will the future look like when nobody writes anymore, or when people live on the planet Mars? Students of the Willem de Kooning Academy present future scenario's that glimpse into these possible futures in the exhibition Design Fiction in Het Nieuwe Instituut from 23 January until 2 February. The projects are presented in relation to the event How Do You Do Biodesign where one of the topics is Design Fiction.
Biodesign
On the Cross-Pollination of Nature, Science and Creativity
For the Biodesign exhibition, curator William Myers has selected dozens of projects that illustrate new ways to harness living systems for art, design and production
Designing Health
Designing for health care
Het Nieuwe Instituut presents Designing Health, an exhibition on designing for health care, at the Designhuis in Eindhoven. Curated by Sabine Wildevuur, it shows how technology, innovation and design have influenced health care throughout history and what they are capable of contributing to it now and in the future. In Designing Health Het Nieuwe Instituut highlights the important role designers play in helping to keep and make people well.
