NADD Archive Day: Crafting the Archive
During this year’s Archive Day, NADD explores the deep interconnectedness of craftsmanship and archival processes. We examine how craft, archiving, remembrance and resistance converge in contemporary creation and archival practices. Our focus is on the creators of archives and the crafts they document, preserve and reinterpret.
18 June 2026 08:00 - 16:00
Crafts are often based on years of experience and practical knowledge passed down from generation to generation. This challenges conventional archival practices, while simultaneously raising questions about preservation, authorship, labour and cultural memory in artisanal traditions.
Through interactive presentations, workshops, show-and-tells and more, we address questions such as: what is the distinction between design and craft? What is the relationship between craft and cultural identity? What role do crafts play in forms of resistance and activism? How are traditions actualised, reinvented or challenged? Could archival practices themselves be considered a form of creation? And, perhaps most importantly, how do you archive craft?
Contributions come from Carlien Macnack on radical quilting; Lara Bongard on creating new archives of Jewish Futurism; Tracé and Erfgoed Limburg on connecting the heritage of Boerenbont ceramics; Hanka van der Voet on feminist labour histories; and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten on preserving material practices in the studio.
Tickets are valid for the whole day and grant access to two workshops in the afternoon. Tickets include lunch and drinks.
TicketsProgramme
- 10:00 – 11:30 Joint opening
- 11:30 – 13:30 Lunch and hands-on sessions
- 13:30 – 15:00 Parallel panels / workshops
- 15:30 – 17:00 Parallel panels / workshops
- 17:00 Drinks and opening of the Collection Gallery and Just In #2 exhibitions
Find out more about the programme on the NADD website.
NADD websiteAbout NADD
NADD stands for Network Archives Design and Digital Culture and is a growing network of museums, creators, archives, designers, researchers and collectives. By combining forces within the network, NADD makes design and digital culture archives visible, accessible and future-proof.