ICAM 2022 ICAM 2022

WIth Aric Chen, Dirk van den Heuvel and Setareh Noorani
Session 2 Thursday 8 September, 14.30 - 16.00

An architecture museum is not necessarily a research or knowledge institution in the academic sense of the word. Nevertheless, to arrive at a successful public programme with a clear profile requires research into archives and reference literature, and an understanding of what is happening in the world outside the museum. In an ever-expanding field - from the digital domain to socio-political issues - what are the research practices currently being developed to meet the expectations of the public and other stakeholders, within and outside the institute? In this session, we look at how different research methods can reinforce each other to open up current exhibition practices and institutional boundaries.

Aric Chen (Director of Het Nieuwe Instituut) and Dirk van den Heuvel (Head of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre and Associate Professor at TU Delft) chair this session. There are presentations by Maristella Casciato (Getty Research Institute), Emily Pugh (GRI), Ann Whiteside (Harvard GSD), Harriet Edquist (RMIT University Melbourne), Roberto Gigliotti and Nina Bassoli (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), Petterri Kummala (Museum of Finnish Architecture) and Setareh Noorani (Het Nieuwe Instituut).

Collecting Otherwise, represented in this session by Setareh Noorani, is actively working with representatives of the Vrouwen Bouwen Wonen foundation to consider adequate ways of managing, preserving and representing its legacy. This collaboration is bearing fruit for example in understanding the Vrouwen Bouwen Wonen archive as a 'network archive', the joint development of archive tools, and an Oral Herstory to complement the documents acquired.

Luzia Hartsuyker, architect, and the coordination group in “Inspiratie en een lange adem: het projekt burgerziekenhuis voor vrouwen, nu en straks”, 1988. Source: Archive [Women Building Living Housing] / Bureau Tussen-Ruimte. Donation by Lidewij Tummers, Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut.

With Robin Hartanto Honggare and Setareh Noorani
Session 1 Wednesday 7 September, 13.30 - 15.00
Session 2 Friday 9 September, 14.00 - 15.30

The National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning contains archives that relate not only to building practices in the Netherlands, but also to the architectural legacy of former Dutch colonies. During this session, Robin Hartanto Honggare and Setareh Noorani will discuss the Collecting Otherwise research project, which this year explores possible strategies that offer a basis for repositioning and interpreting colonial heritage, as well as adjusting and expanding the instruments with which we deal with such heritage. A number of specific cases from the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning form the basis of this reassessment.

With Ellen Smit
Pecha Kucha Saturday 10 September, 15.00 - 16.00 (not online)

Het Nieuwe Instituut curator Ellen Smit briefly discusses research into analogue reproduction. In addition to museological, hand-drawn 'original' designs, the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning contains an enormous number of copies and reproductions. Invented from Copies is a research project within the framework of Disclosing Architecture in which a specific materiality of the archive is central: the architectural reproduction. How do the different reproduction techniques, such as the blueprint and the whiteprint, relate to the design process and design culture?

The ICAM conference 2022 is organised by the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich, and takes place from September 6 to 11, 2022. The programme includes five conference sessions covering architectural archives in Asia (two parts), the impact of architecture museums on the discipline of architecture, the status and role of films in architectural archives and mutually reinforcing research methods. The five sessions will be held in hybrid form, allowing online participation. For more information, visit the ICAM website.

Conference held at Het Nieuwe Instituut