Het Nieuwe Instituut and the City of Rotterdam have commissioned the Polder of Babel - a community of learning exploring the super-diverse city in the Antropocene. The project, by the Independent School for the City, is Rotterdam's parallel programme for Who is We? - the Dutch contribution to the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

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Gesprek tussen René Boer, Marina Otero Verzier, Katía Truijen (curatoren en redacteuren van Architecture of Appropriation) en Guus Beumer, directeur van Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Catalogue accompanying the eponymous exhibition Art on Display 1949-69, a collaboration between the Gulbenkian Museum in Porto and the Nieuwe Instituut.

Six progressive, post-war exhibition designs by architects illustrate how design explicitly shape the relationship between artwork and viewer. The dozens of paintings and sculptures displayed in the reconstructions are from the collections of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. Pieces from these collections have never been shown in the Netherlands before.

Three creative practitioners will be given the opportunity to create a new, autonomous media work within a six-month working period, using the public and digitized collections of the Nieuwe Instituut, Sound and Vision, and the International Institute of Social History.

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In Sonneveld House, designer Gijs Bakker and poet K. Schippers present combinations of jewellery and poetry selected especially for this exhibition from their extensive oeuvres. The result is an environment in which visitors can make new connections and entertain alternative interpretations.

Making and keeping digital information accessible in a sustainable way involves major challenges, including the ongoing development of media and technology and the wide variety of software formats, file formats and information carriers used. Het Nieuwe Instituut therefore commissioned research studies of two strategies for keeping files readable and usable: migration and emulation.

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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.