Cultural institution The Beach reflects on their participation in the Archieftraject:"By diving into your own archive, you nurture new leads for your future practice"

On 31 March 2023 Nieuwe Instituut hosted a meeting of digital culture makers, funding bodies and policy makers to present Moonshot Digital Culture.

Despite their touchy and temperamental nature, geese are friends, not fowl. Perhaps a little fowl.

Garden Futures: Designing with Nature, an exhibition exploring the history and prospects of the modern garden, is now open at the Vitra Design Museum.

A fish sauntered into my office. "Murder", she sighed. The heron must be back in town.

The fashion show Wearwork, curated by Ninamounah, is part of the exhibition Workwear, on view at the Nieuwe Instituut from 26 March to 10 September 2023.

What hidden stories from designers of the past are inspiring designers today? In this podcast Emily Wijns from Nieuwe Instituut's Collection department explores the archive with fashion designer Bonne Reijn.

How did people dress for the architecture office, building site, factory and studio of the past? To mark the occasion of the Workwear exhibition, we searched the National Collection for working clothes. Here’s a small selection of all the tailor-made suits, fedora hats and dust jackets that we found.

The plants keeping the Garden green in winter certainly are a sort. Namely, the sort that refuses to politely leave after being invited.

The exhibition design, by Cookies and Studio Isabelle Vaverka, invites us to discover the distinctive rugged materials, the reliance on craft and hard work, and the ideological and symbolic meanings behind Workwear.

From 2 May 2023, the Nieuwe Instituut celebrates the 30th anniversary of Droog, the innovative and rebellious Dutch design collective. The Droog30. Design or Non-Design? exhibition presents pioneering and iconic designs from a label that, over the years, has generated as much controversy as it has affection. The exhibition can be seen first at the Triennale Milano from 15 to 24 April, during Milan Design Week / Salone del Mobile.

As part of the Workwear exhibition, the Nieuwe Instituut asked designer and stylist Bonne Reijn of Bonne Suits to translate his famous ‘poor person’s suit’ or worker suit into a special jacket for staff members of the institute’s Collection department.