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No one invited the tomato, but it showed up to the party regardless.

This prickly, hallucinogenic guest surely didn't plant itself in a neat little row.

Both rampant algae and obvious methods to contain them threaten the lushness of the ponds.

Bats prefer dark habitats. Large, glowing neon signs offer the opposite.

Due to the predicted extreme heat on Tuesday 19 July 2022, Het Nieuwe Instituut is unfortunately forced to close The Podium that day. From Wednesday 20 July 2022, The Podium will be open to the public again - until 17 August.

The Dutch Pavilion has won the Golden Bee Award at the XXIII Triennale di Milano. The pavilion has been commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Netherlands' Museum for Architecture, Design and Digital Culture. Entitled Have we met? humans and non-humans on common ground, the Dutch Pavilion promotes new ways for understanding our planet as a shared space for plants, microbes, humans and other animals.

Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Netherlands' national museum for architecture, design and digital culture, presents Have we met?, on show in Milan from 15 July to 11 December 2022. Het Nieuwe Instituut is commissioned by the Netherlands' Ministry of Education, Culture and Science to curate this official Dutch contribution.

A three-episode podcast expands on the exhibition themes with the help of podcast producer Wineke van Muiswinkel. Episode one explores the Zoöp Het Nieuwe Instituut, followed by future Zoöp Bodemzicht, concluding with the North sea, where a Zoöp could significantly improve sea life.

This species of butterfly seems to be doing quite well.

Het Nieuwe Instituut's 2022 Design Drafts programme, in collaboration with Disegno journal (London), announced an open call for up-and-coming design writers to investigate and draft what it means to reflect on design today.

_Retake _shows the unexpected and colourful results; the 'happy accidents' of the digitisation process.