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.

Even a task like mowing the grass is more delicate than it seems, if you want to do it right. Some thrive in tall grass, others move in right after mowing.

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.

They're not really geese, nor are they ducks. Just as suddenly as they invaded, they left.

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.

The polygynous males are territorial fighters, sometimes chasing each other up to heights of fifty meters.

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.

Since its foundation in 2013, Het Nieuwe Instituut has carried out and supported research in architecture, design and d…

At the prestigious Milan design fair Salone del Mobile 2022, Het Nieuwe Instituut presents The Solar Energy Kiosk, a solar-powered installation developed by Rotterdam-based design studio Cream on Chrome.