Neuhäusler
Neuhaus will be put together for, by and with active participants from outside of Het Nieuwe Instituut: these are known as the ‘Neuhäusler’. An initial intake of these academies, designers, artists, theatre-makers, machines, chefs, inventors, researchers, algorithms, activists and neighbours was made through a Call for Auditions.
Symposium
Neuhaus will kick off with an experimental symposium that on 18 May 2019 will sketch out the challenges to which the project is responding, present the central themes and questions and in so doing form the introduction to the curriculum. Participants in the symposium will include: Annika Kappner; Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe); Elaine Gan; Elisa Yvelin; Erinma Ochu; Federico Campagna; Grâce Ndjako; Menno Schilthuizen; The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun); Patricia MacCormack; Tabita Rezaire.
Learning trajectories
The curriculum is constructed around the following seven learning trajectories: Collective Bodies, Extended Senses, Multispecies Urbanism, Time Worlds, Meeting Matter, Other Subjectivities and More-than-human Languages. The Neuhäusler involved in supervising these trajectories as tutors are Amenti Collective, Heleen Klopper, June Yu, Nadine Botha, Research for the Botanical, Night of Philosophy, Mona Lisa’s, Esther Polak & Ivar van Bekkum, Eric Kluitenberg, Ines Péborde, Rianne Makkink and many others.
On location
The permanent Neuhaus set-up, which can be visited and experienced throughout the entire Neuhaus period on the ground floor of Het Nieuwe Instituut, consists of a number of ‘classrooms’ and interactive workspaces on location that correspond to specific spaces within an academy building and refer to particular learning trajectories within the curriculum. The classrooms will be realised by the most diverse Neuhäusler: artists (collectives), designers, researchers, synthetic fibres, mythical beings, populations of algae, monitors and artificial intelligence. Committed makers, thinkers and organisations including: Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Heritage department, Z33/Studio Time, Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand, Edwin Driessens & Maria Verstappen, the Willem de Kooning Academie (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences), Hackers & Designers, Conny Groenewegen and Officina Corpuscoli.
Curriculum
The Neuhaus curriculum is expressed in part through ongoing research and almost daily lectures, workshops, performances, presentations, meetings, temporary exhibitions, walks, meditations, massages, animations, trans-species dinners, philosophical conversations, ‘monkey cage’ sessions, treasure hunts and virtual reality. Throughout the duration of Neuhaus, a daily, weekly and monthly ‘timetable’ will be disseminated by various methods. Lisette Smits and students from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, the Design Academy Eindhoven and the Willem de Kooning Academie (Rotterdam Academy of Applied Sciences), among others, were involved in drawing up the curriculum.
