Living Archives: a Celebration of Design and Digital CultureLiving Archives: a Celebration of Design and Digital Culture

Receive Archival First Aid from NADD’s archive coaches, leaf through selected publications in the Reading Room or join a detour through Dutch, More or Less, the new design exhibition at Nieuwe Instituut! Plus, closing off the day is the opening of a new installment of the Archives at Risk: Seeking Shelter exhibition, and a festive launch of the special archive-themed issue of De Gids which will highlight artistic, poetic and literary takes on design and digital culture archives.

• 9:30 – 10:00 Doors open
• 10:00 – 12:00 Plenary session: Network archives/Archives of Networks
• 12:00 – 13:00 Parallel Roundtable Sessions
• 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
• 14:00 – 15:30 Live podcast + workshop sessions #1
• 15:30 – 17:00 Live podcast + workshop sessions # 2
• 17:15 – 19:30 Launch De Gids and festive drinks and bites

Download the full timetable here.

Moderated by Margerita Osipian

With the advent of Linked Open Data and collection platforms, there are new possibilities for design and digital culture heritage to be connected from disparate locations. However, the concept of network archives also refers to the social networks of people in different locations who create and care for archives. In this plenary session we will hear how Archival Consciousness creates innovative platforms that bring webs of archival material, makers, and places together; how Archival Horizons is tracing diasporic connections through the Caribbean; and how the collective Time.iscapital is 3D mapping autonomous creative collectives whose work falls outside the realm of institutional archives.

Join one of three roundtable discussions where designers, researchers and archivists will be exploring new ways to archive the fleeting and intangible parts of our design and digital culture heritage. With Robert van Rixtel (Dutch Graphic Roots), Maud Seuntjens (Sonic Acts), Carlien Macnack, Nico Thåöne (EKWC); Marije Grund (Dutch Design Foundation), Patrick Hutchinson (resident, -1), Mohamad Deeb, Sara Culmann, Carolina Pinto (Institute for Network Cultures) and more.

Take part in a live podcast recording with NADD guest curator Gyonne Zafira, Onias Landveld (Productiehuis Wosu) and Andrea Scholz about institutional narratives and roles in the challenging processes of restitution and building relationships between communities and institutions.What is the role of ‘the community’ in restitution of colonially coded artifacts and narratives? What do we need in this relationship between ‘the community’ and ‘the institution’ that is a legacy of our colonial past and in our current neo-/or postcolonial society?

The afternoon is dedicated to listening and making. Participate in hands-on workshops with innovative archivists, digital makers and researchers. Experiment with archival collage-making with the Syrian Design Archives; learn new tools for ethical archiving with Collecting Otherwise; attend a listening session and workshop on sonic archiving with the Palestine Sound Archive or learn how to clean up and creatively repurpose your digital memory with The Hmmm and Teresa Fernandez-Pello. Each workshop has space for only 15 participants, so make sure to reserve your spot in time, find the detailed description of the workshops below.

Following the Nos Bida, Nos storia discussion you can join the opening of the fragmented exhibition ‘How Do We Remember?’ where Serana Angelista will share the discuss their new work ‘The Promised Land’ in conversation with curator Gyonne Zafira, delving deep into familial archives and the importance of memories and oral histories in different contexts through the eyes of different artists. You will also get a sneak peak of the works that will open on the 5th of July at the Archivo Nacional Aruba.

Round up and reflection in the auditorium with a special, themed edition of De Gids featuring original essays, poetry and visual essays on the topic of design and digital culture archives.

Archival First Aid Better archiving starts with you! The NADD offers a toolkit for designers and makers to begin to archive their own work. During the day, you will be able to visit an archive coach for a speed consultation about your own archival practice, and learn about the free resources and trainings available.

NADD Reading Room Take a break from the hustle and bustle and relax in the Research Centre where there’ll be a cosy corner filled with the publications that have been produced by NADD partners, research residents and other collaborators.

Detours Follow a Detour Guide through a unique exploration of How Do We Remember and Archives at Risk: Seeking Shelter, two timely exhibitions commissioned by the NADD to give more visibility to design and digital culture archives.

For this event Day Passes and tickets for parts of the programme are available. For Free Solidarity tickets or group entries: please message us at nadd@nieuweinstituut.nl