Het Nieuwe Instituut Online/Offline #10
During the temporary closure of Het Nieuwe Instituut, a weekly newsletter provides an update on our online programming and a selection of our online content. This web page is based on Newsletter #10 - 28 May 2020.
28 May 2020
Open / Closed
Online / Offline
While Het Nieuwe Instituut has developed alternative formats, remaining open online, it's now also possible to physically reopen on 1 June, thanks to the reduced pressure on healthcare. However, the protocol and various measures required mean that we can welcome fewer visitors than before. This has prompted us to develop more hybrid programming in the near future, based on online and offline elements. In order to lower any barriers to a visit, we have covered the various restrictions as far as possible. We have also approached the situation as a design question and are offering new forms of visit. From 1 June, there is an opportunity to participate in a unique visitor experience, one that is about personal meaning and intimacy and through which you can still celebrate each other's company - at a distance.
At the same time, the policy around Covid-19 has led to some topical questions. How does the design domain relate, for example, to the idea of the 1.5 metre society and the basic forms of inclusion and exclusion associated with it? The disciplining and exclusive mechanisms of design have been discussed regularly within the institute in recent years. It is interesting that these qualities are now repeatedly being employed as solutions to a social problem.
Order tickets now
A visit to Het Nieuwe Instituut, Huis Sonneveld and NAi Booksellers is once again possible from 1 June, on the basis of time slots. Readers of this newsletter can be the first to order tickets. If you have questions about ordering online, call us and we will happily help you: 010 440 12 00. To visit the Research Centre, make a reservation via collection@hetnieuweinstituut.nl.
Given the financial consequences of Covid-19 for many, the discount rate is valid for anyone needs it.
Now Online _and _Offline at Het Nieuwe Instituut
Since the physical closure, the institute has compiled this weekly newsletter, which focuses on the current programme - this week the re-opening of G/D Thyself, The Hoodie, Set Stage Screen and Sonneveld House -, the richness of our public web archive, and the activities of others, based on a changing theme. We are continuing this digital programme. Spread the word and tell others who might be interested in receiving this newsletter.
75B’s Design Intervention Commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut, design agency 75B intervenes in the building's public space and playfully confronts visitors and employees with the idea of the 1.5 metre society. The visual language is inspired by chemical connections and electrical diagrams and thus represents a mix of chemistry (between people) and the electric feeling of being together.
From the Collection: Unlocked/Reconnected In the institute's entrance hall, a diptych, made using material from the Dutch National Collection for Architecture and Urban Planning, is on show at the invitation of Unlocked/Reconnected, inspired by the concept of 'at home in the time of the pandemic'. This collectively curated exhibition connects even the most diverse 'homes for the arts' and marks the restart of public cultural life. Each institution - including Utrecht's Centraal Museum, Galerie VIVID (Rotterdam) and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam - selects one work especially for this purpose.
Open: A Bakema Celebration The exhibition, Open: A Bakema Celebration, in the Dutch pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, offered critical reflections on the idea of the open society through the work and research of Jaap Bakema (1914-81). Bakema, a leading architect of the post-war period of modern architecture, wanted to build a society that was democratic, egalitarian and open to everyone. In 2020, his idealism is gaining relevance in the context of the current plea for the 1.5 metre society.
The Hoodie - Televised The Hoodie exhibition is extended until August 23. On May 31 and June 1 in collaboration with YouthDem and Het Nieuwe Instituut, Concrete Blossom is organising the on- en offline live-broadcast The Hoodie - Televised. With contributions from Lou Stoppard, Timothy Sabajo (Patta), Chinouk Filique, Richard Lopes Mendes (Clan de Banlieue), Jordan Soediono (SUMIBU), Abderrahmane Trabsini (Daily Paper) and a Bring Your Own Merch (BYOM) screenprinting hangout at Middellandplein in Rotterdam on Sunday.
Commissioning in the Time of Covid-19 Every week, Het Nieuwe Instituut invites a designer to make a cover for the online web magazine in response to the question: 'What's occupying you now?' This week by The Rodina.
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Warehouse asked Schueller de Waal to design a DIY face mask for their project Warehouse Ware: Warehouse Ware / The Face Mask Series.
Follow the programming of Kunstblock and its weekly Stay at Home Art Evening in Rotterdam's Witte de With quarter.
Read the text of Paul B. Preciado's Premsela Lecture of 2017, in which he argued that architecture is a technique that produces a 'certain type' of space that is never 'neutral' or 'one hundred per cent open'.
On May 27, BNNVARA broadcast Through the Eyes of Arna, a documentary about architect Arna Mačkić (spatial designer of The Hoodie) and her commitment to inclusive space.
Check out our previous weekly newsletters on Data Matter, Who is We?, the Interior and the Body, and Songs from Another Room: Music Video in Quarantine.