Nieuwe Instituut has recently acquired the archive of garden and landscape architect Michael van Gessel. What does the acquisition of his archive mean for research into Dutch garden and landscape architecture?

Het Nieuwe Instituut takes part in the Professional Visits Programme of the iPRES 2019 conference on 20 September. iPRES is the premier and longest-running conference series on digital preservation. The Professional Visits programme allows all iPRES 2019 attendees to take a peek into the digital preservation world of The Netherlands. The hosting organizations will offer guided tours in which they will present their achievements in digital preservation.

This exhibition explores the role of a fashion garment as a socio-political carrier. The hoodie tells many stories - tales of social inequality, youth culture, subculture, police brutality, racism, privacy, fear and style. It is a garment that sparks a range of emotions, communicating all manner of social and cultural ideas and nuances depending on the gender, geography, age, conduct and ethnicity of the wearer and, in turn, the prejudices and politics of the viewer. Popularised by Champion in the 1930s, the hoodie was a practical solution for workmen; it is now, arguably, the last truly political garment.

Het Nieuwe Instituut - Museum for Architecture, Design and Digital Culture - presents Malware: Symptoms of Viral Infection, an exhibition about the history and evolution of the computer virus, from 5 July to 10 November 2019. Using the most infamous examples, the exhibition explores the cultural impact of malware and raises questions concerning security, warfare and geopolitics.

Het Nieuwe Instituut has completed its mission from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science to create an inventory of important and threatened archives in the fields of design and digital culture. The report outlines a policy perspective on the government's task in relation to the preservation of archives in these fields.

Through its annual Call for Fellows, Het Nieuwe Instituut's Research Department invited practitioners and researchers to work in residence from September 2019 to February 2020. The jury recognised and awarded a Research Fellowship to three projects, each of which demonstrated critical rigour and a depth of understanding of the broader issues that are at stake in their proposal.

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Marina Otero Verzier, Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut is part of UTS School of Architecture's Public Lecture Series in Sydney on 24 June 2019.

For its third edition and as part of the London Festival of Architecture, Unknown: Strategies and Solutions in Shaping the Built Environment is the annual conference led by women in architecture co-curated by Melodie Leung, Senior Associate at Zaha Hadid Architects and the Museum of Architecture, supported by Finsa. The event takes place on Friday, 7 June, 2019, at the Aga Khan Centre in London.

From 23 to 27 September 2019 Director of Research Marina Otero Verzier and 2018 Research Fellow Malique Mohamud will organize _Assembly for the Extra Real. _A workshop that is part of Fiction Practice - Curators Lab at the Porto Design Biennale. Deadline for registration is 30 June.

From 5 - 8 August 2019, Het Nieuwe Instituut's Director of Research Marina Otero Verzier will teach a summer school course at Stacion, Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina in Kosovo. The course focuses on the temporal architecture of cultural institutions, their exhibition models, curatorial practices, social experiments, and their impact and political implications. The application deadline is June 15, 2019.

Het Nieuwe Instituut is lending the scale model of Jaap Bakema's 'Euromast' to the Rijksmuseum for the small presentation around Vilmos Huszár within the museum's permanent twentieth-century displays. The institute is also lending a monotype of Huszár's hand and a poster by Johan Niegeman. These loans are part of a long-term curatorial partnership between Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Rijksmuseum.