ENTER_Milan
from 6 to 10 September Het Nieuwe Instituut presented 'ENTER'Milan', during Supersalone, the 2021 edition of Salone del Mobile. The public programme, that took place both online and in Milan, reflects on the current state of the design field and the challenges ahead. Recordings of the programme are now available on this page.
6 September 2021 11:00 - 10 September 2021 17:00
6 September
Design as Collaboration
Design as Collaboration highlights collaborative practices within design, extending beyond the notion of individual authorship. It puts collective thinking at the center of design education and practice.
Design Dialogues
11:00–11:30 Welcome by Francien van Westrenen (Head of Agency of Het Nieuwe Instituut). Moderator Angela Rui (design critic and curator) in conversation with Aric Chen (artistic director of Het Nieuwe Instituut) and Joseph Grima (director of Design Academy Eindhoven).
Design Dialogues
11:30–12:00 Guus Beumer (founding director Het Nieuwe Instituut), Brendan Cormier (writer, curator, urban designer) and Maureen Mooren (graphic designer) about the publication Expansive Bodies. Contesting Design at Het Nieuwe Instituut (nai010 publishers).
On Show
12:30–15:30 On Show presents activations in space (live performances), conversations and screenings of Design Academy Eindhoven 2020 graduates' works. Hosted by Pollyanna Moss (DAE graduate 2020).
Salone Reports and Readings
16:00–17:00 Editor and writer Bianca Felicori invites Erica Petrillo (curator), Chiara Tomassi (senior architect) Costanza Candeloro (artist and researcher) to explore the female role in young European collectives participating in the Milan Design Week.
7 September
Multivocal Worlds
Multivocal Worlds puts under scrutiny the dominant positions and the modernist principles that have prevailed in Western design education, closely tied to notions of objectivity and universality. It aims to instigate designers to be more aware of the political context within which they operate, and to take greater account of difference while pushing for creativity and experimentation.
Design Dialogues
11:00–11:30 Moderator Angela Rui (design critic and curator) in conversation with Tabea Nixdorff (graphic designer and researcher) and Setareh Noorani (architect and researcher at Het Nieuwe Instituut) about Feminist Design Strategies (part of the exhibition Designing the Social in Het Nieuwe Instituut).
Design Dialogues
11:30–12:00 with Resolve Collective (interdisciplinary design collective based in the UK) on collaborative design practices.
On Show
12:30–15:30 On Show presents activations in space (live performances), conversations and screenings of Design Academy Eindhoven 2020 graduates' works. Hosted by Pollyanna Moss (DAE graduate 2020).
Salone Reports and Readings
16:00–17:00 With writer, editor and designer Nicholas Korody.
8 September
Alchemist Dreams
The continued search for energy and new materials and the implications it has on the field of design will be explored in Alchemist Dreams. It aims to spark a debate on larger questions of burn-out and productivity in relation to the human body and the planet.
Design Dialogues
11:00–11:30 Moderator Angela Rui (design critic and curator) in conversation with Anastasia Kubrak (designer, researcher), Francisco Diaz (publisher) and other contributors to the research on and publication _Lithium_
__
On Show
12:30–15:30 On Show presents activations in space (live performances), conversations and screenings of Design Academy Eindhoven 2020 graduates' works. Hosted by Pollyanna Moss (DAE graduate 2020).
Salone Reports and Readings
16:00–17:00 With designer Sofia Pia Belenky.
9 September
More-than-Human Thinking
This session proposes design practices past the centrality of the human subject, and invites to imagine networks of ethics and responsibility emerging from the messy and complex liveliness around and beneath us.
Design Dialogues
11:00–11:30 Moderator Angela Rui (design critic and curator) in conversation with Andrés Jaque (architect and scholar), Lucia Pietroiusti (curator) and Marina Otero Verzier (architect and director of Research Het Nieuwe Instituut) on post-anthropocentric thinking and the More-than-Human Reader.
Design Dialogues
11:30-12:00 with Klaas Kuitenbrouwer on Zoöp, a new kind of legal format for collaboration between humans and collective bodies of nonhumans, in order to support ecological regeneration.
On Show
12:30–15:30 On Show presents activations in space (live performances), conversations and screenings of Design Academy Eindhoven 2020 graduates' works. Hosted by Pollyanna Moss (DAE graduate 2020).
Salone Reports and Readings
16:00–17:00 With architect and editor Andrea Bagnato.
10 September
On Screen(s) – Together Apart
On Screen(s) - Together Apart focuses on the possibilities and challenges that emerge from the intensified dependencies of mediated learning and practice. Guests will look at the space of the screen, the territories and bodies it mediates, and the infrastructure and platforms that sustain them and how they could facilitate forms of political engagement within the design field.
Design Dialogues
11:00–11:30 Moderator Florian van Zandwijk in conversation with Enter resident Shiyun Deng and Enter developer/artist Marianne Noordzij.
Design Dialogues
11:30-12:00 With researchers Delany Boutkan and Katía Truijen on the publication _For The Record: On the Politics of Music Video Culture_ which investigates how contemporary video culture operates as a public space for consumerism, activism and emancipation.
On Show
12:30–15:30 On Show presents activations in space (live performances), conversations and screenings of Design Academy Eindhoven 2020 graduates' works. Hosted by Pollyanna Moss (DAE graduate 2020).
Salone Reports and Readings
16:00–17:00 With designer and researcher Ginevra Petrozzi.
Enter
The programme at Supersalone marked the first public appearance of Enter, an online meeting and event platform initiated by Het Nieuwe Instituut. Enter combines experimental digital design, web development and critical reflection in pursuit of the goal of building a more independent, privacy- and human-friendly alternative to the standard online platforms. While continuously in development, Enter provides an intimate and flexible online space for conversations and small-scale events. On this occasion, Enter also transforms into a physical interior, creating a hybrid environment for meetings between people in Milan and elsewhere.
The programme is embedded within the exhibition Missed Your Call by Design Academy Eindhoven, showing graduation projects of their 2020 Bachelor graduates, and takes place in a former bakery factory built in 1898, a hidden industrial architecture in the centre of Milan and most of the year closed to the public.