New York-based architecture and design platform The World Around returns this year on Saturday, February 5, for the third edition of its annual summit celebrating architecture and design's now, near and next. Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum are TWA Institutional Partners for 2022.

Every year, the multi-year Collecting Otherwise project works within an 'iteration'. In 2021, the focus was Seen/Unseen: Intersectional Feminism and Gender Queer in the National Collection of Het Nieuwe Instituut. For this iteration, Collecting Otherwise departs from both old, rediscovered archives and new acquisitions -- emphasising the importance of tracing the genealogy of Othering, and viewing different roles designated for female, queer, Black bodies and bodies of colour in the National Collection.

On Thursday 9 December, the Collecting Otherwise team and Working Group gathered for the last time this year to [softly] close the project's first iteration and look forward to what the new year will bring -- despite the evening's ever warm, caring and celebratory atmosphere, this is not a goodbye, but rather an introduction to the new and revived questions we will carry as the new iteration unfolds.

Researcher Federica Notari wrote this essay as her contribution to Gathering #4: Soft Closing, marking the end of the first year of Collecting Otherwise.

Het Nieuwe Instituut is teaming up with the Solar Biennale to host the event's first exhibition in September 2022. Founded by designers Marjan van Aubel and Pauline van Dongen, the Solar Biennale aims to foster new visions based on solar energy by highlighting potential future uses and developing technologies.

Het Nieuwe Instituut has acquired a design by Theo van Doesburg for the tiled floor in the De Vonk Holiday Home.

The Foundation for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (SBMK) has brought together 16 museums, including Het Nieuwe Instituut, for Collection Knowledge 2.0/Photography, which aims to preserve photography permanently and keep it publicly accessible.

How do we go about preserving lived experiences, whether virtual or real? New media is making this question increasingly evident and relevant.

Using the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning as a springboard, Naomi Steijger, theatre and radio director, will discuss the green areas in the Bijlmermeer with curator Eline de Graaf and landscape architect and planner Han Lörzing. This is the second in a series of podcasts entitled Green in the City.

The Observers Observed explores ethnography's influence on architecture. The conference proceedings can be downloaded here.

Temporality is one of the problems of archives that has long fascinated me.