After Summer School: SundayAfter Summer School: Sunday

This year’s programme especially explores ways of learning that foster peace through empathy, curiosity, imagination, listening, resistance, and resilience. It aims to strengthen social cohesion and create a shared sense of security for all.

This programme continues to collectively build the idea for a city-based Curriculum for Change. It comprises a series of classes, talks, workshops, and encounters that showcase and explore a multi-facetted, plural, inclusive and post-disciplinary approach to the city.   

Empathy / curiosity
LARP by WaterSchool by Studio Makkink & Bey

Water can act as a connector, communicator, and a diplomat in times of fragmentation, migration, and geopolitical tension. WaterSchool explores spaces where non-human species are reclaiming territory and new forms of co-existence emerge between humans and non-humans. In these transitional zones, they use Live Action Role Play (LARP) as an experiential participatory method to investigate ecology and social structures. Stories, rituals, and objects encourage new behaviours and understanding. In doing so, a living landscape takes shape, one where learning, behaviour, and transformation can occur. This embodied approach invites participants to become part of a regenerative ecosystem that is constantly evolving. This class, partly developed for and made possible by Bauhaus of the Seas, also takes place on Saturday.

Saturday 20 September, 15:30–18:30 | WaterSchool | English

Empathy / curiosity
Workshop by Eamer Beamer

Discover a new perspective on the present and past forms of learning through a dialogue with children and experience the city as a learning environment through the eyes of both children and adults. This workshop challenges the assumption that adults’ opinions are more valuable than those of children. Led by social co-designer Emer Beamer (with experience in 30 countries) and children from Rotterdam, you will draw, make, and engage in conversation to rediscover not only the city, but also your own way of learning.

Sunday 21 September, 11:00–12:30 | Deck, Nieuwe Instituut | Dutch

Listening
Workshop by AMPFEMININE

How to discover new music in a world where algorithms determine what we hear? After all, aren’t we all DJs or ‘selectors’ who choose what music we listen to and with whom we share it? In this workshop, DJ collective AMPFEMININE will introduce you to new ways of discovering music that go beyond the digital feed. By not only listening to music but also truly experiencing it and connecting it to stories, memories, and emotions — music becomes more than just sound. It becomes a carrier of personal and collective narratives. This workshop is part of Through Sounds, a research project by Het Nieuwe Instituut that explores the infrastructures surrounding sound and music.

Sunday 21 September, 13:00–15:00 | MONO | English

Join us from 15:30 for drinks and snacks on the Deck of the Nieuwe Instituut!

The After Summer School is a Rotterdam-based programme of the New Academy where a wide variety of knowledge producers teach their methods. How can we change the city by looking, listening, writing, archiving, collaborating, activating, researching, designing, and walking differently?

If you have any questions regarding the programme or would like to request a free solidarity ticket for financial reasons, you can contact us through laura.lakam@nieuweinstituut.nl.