On Saturday 22 October the winners of the New Material Award 2016 were announced. The winners are Olivier van Herpt - New Material Award 2016 - and Diana Scherer - New Material Fellow.

Het Nieuwe Instituut - Museum for Architecture, Design and Digital Culture - presents from 29 January to 25 June 2017 a varied programme of exhibitions, including Designing the Surface, Sleep Mode. The Art of the Screensaver about a forgotten history of digital culture and Architecture of Appropriation.

The French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster created a work especially for Sonneveld House that will be on show from 13 November 2016 until 6 March 2017 in the museum house. Opera-house by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is a conceptual domestic opera based on early 20th-century operatic music and technology.

The DATAstudio, an initiative of Het Nieuwe Instituut and the city of Eindhoven, organizes a design session during DDW16 on hidden subjects on the digital map. How can these data deserts be given a voice in both public opinion and municipal policy?

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This autumn Het Nieuwe Instituut is initiating a series of dialogues in which young architects from the Netherlands and Flanders discuss their design practice in relation to four themes. The dialogues take place within the framework of the exhibition 'Maatwerk - Massarbeit' at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, for which Het Nieuwe Instituut has provided material on loan.

Het Nieuwe Instituut has cleaned, digitised and repacked 7500 glass negatives.

Thirty design drawings from the archive of architect Pierre Cuypers are on view in the exhibition Interieur & Lifestyle at De Haar at De Haar Castle in Utrecht from 7 September. The exhibition juxtaposes Cuypers' Gothic style with the fashionable lifestyle of his wealthy clients, Baroness Hélène de Rothschild and Baron Etienne van Zuylen van Nijevelt van de Haar.

Het Nieuwe Instituut has acquired a set of original Gispen furniture that stood in the living room of Sonneveld House until the 1950s.

Under the auspices of the Agency for Architecture, Design and Digital Culture, Het Nieuwe Instituut is making a contribution to the first edition of the London Design Biennale 2016 at Somerset House. Het Nieuwe Instituut has invited Studio Makkink & Bey to curate and design the entry.

In appointing Judith van Kranendonk and Adriana Strating, the Supervisory Board of Het Nieuwe Instituut has implemented all the proposed governance measures.