Expansive Bodies: Contesting Design at Het Nieuwe Instituut, a richly illustrated book exploring eight years of idiosyncratic exhibition design, is available now in Dutch and English.

Every Sunday on Instagram Collection, we will post an image of home from the photos in the National Collection. What makes an interior a home?

The digitisation of the collection has now undergone considerable professionalisation and acceleration as part of the six-year Disclosing Architecture programme.

On 28 June, the Collecting Otherwise Working Group held the 7th Working Group meeting, an intimate, thought provoking Zoom discussion with a special lecture by Renan Laru-an from the Philippines.

Study report on the importance of archiving garden and landscape architecture.

Architect and researcher Alejandro Campos Uribe explains his project on multiculturalism in post-war architecture, in which he focuses on the work of Aldo van Eyck, and particularly the home he shared with Hannie van Eyck.

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Here, we share the meeting's most important tips and insights on how design and digital culture organisations can archive their created content in a sustainable, accessible way.

To expand our understanding of photographic processes and the conservation of modern photography, the Nieuwe Instituut is participating in Collection Knowledge 2.0 - Photography, A series of identification days will take place in the Nieuwe Instituut in July.

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In an animated and inspiring second public gathering, Collecting Otherwise explores 'entering', 'caring for', 'being with', and 'making kin with' archives. Report by the Lysergic Secretary.

Choose and Use is a new scheme developed by the Nieuwe Instituut to make authors’ archives from the National Collection available to the cultural field.