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The 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, meaning that the presentation Who is We? will not be on view at the Dutch pavilion until 2021. However, the exhibition's parallel public programme Values for Survival, curated by Professor Caroline Nevejan at the invitation of Het Nieuwe Instituut, is currently in full swing. The first results of this research programme - Cahier 1 and an Exploratorium - will be presented in Amsterdam and Venice between 12 and 4pm on 14 July 2020.

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Social distancing has led, in the Netherlands and abroad, to the introduction of a single standard which is imposed on all of society: the 1.5 metre rule. This recalls a rational control of society based on uniform solutions that on the one hand make public life possible, yet at the same time contribute to detrimental forms of exclusion.

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Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture is a new look at ecological thinking and a contribution to its historiography. Including work by Jaap Bakema, Aldo van Eyck, Alison and Peter Smithson, James Stirling and many others.

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Het Nieuwe Instituut opened its doors once more on 1 June 2020 with an inviting routing created by design agency 75B, spatial interventions featuring plants and flowers by Frank Bruggeman and the opportunity - with Only for You - for guests to have the museum all to themselves. Het Nieuwe Instituut offers visitors a safe, comfortable space in which togetherness, curiosity and creativity are central.

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