From 26 March 2023, Rotterdam’s Nieuwe Instituut pays tribute to functional fashion with the Workwear exhibition. Originally designed as protection and support for labourers while they performed heavy tasks, workwear became a potent working-class symbol, and today its presence on the street and catwalk cannot be ignored.

Workwear: A Different Kind of Fashion Exhibition at the Nieuwe Instituut

For Dutch Design Week (22 to 30 October), Network Archives Design and Digital Culture (NADD), a consortium of 40 Dutch institutions coordinated by Het Nieuwe Instituut, presents the exhibition _Archives at Risk_ in the Microlab Hall in Eindhoven. Visitors can discover the richness and fragility of Dutch design heritage through the five very different personal archives - from Borre Akkersdijk, Hella Jongerius, Jason Page and Karen Huang, Lies Ros, and Emile Truijen - on display.

Archives at Risk - On the power and vulnerability of Dutch design heritage

With Europe amid an energy crisis, Het Nieuwe Instituut and The Solar Biennale make a timely investigation into solar design. _The Energy Show - Sun, Solar and Human Power_ opened last weeekend at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. The exhibition, part of The Solar Biennale, revolves around the sun and its design possibilites and runs until 5 March 2023.

The Energy Show - Sun, Solar and Human Power now open

The Dutch Pavilion has won the Golden Bee Award at the XXIII Triennale di Milano. The pavilion has been commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Netherlands' Museum for Architecture, Design and Digital Culture. Entitled _Have we met? humans and non-humans on common ground_, the Dutch Pavilion promotes new ways for understanding our planet as a shared space for plants, microbes, humans and other animals. 

The Dutch Pavilion wins the Golden Bee Award at the XXIII Triennale di Milano

In recent weeks, Rotterdam has seen a bright pink city stage become a reality on the roof of Het Nieuwe Instituut. 

Het Nieuwe Instituut, MVRDV and Rotterdam Architecture Month present The Podium

On international Earth Day, Friday 22 April, Het Nieuwe Instituut will become the world's first Zoöperative: a unique form of organisation that takes the 'voices' and interests of non-human life into account in its decisions. At the same time, The New Garden opens, as does _In Search of the Pluriverse_: an exhibition that examines how design can contribute to a multivocal world.

Het Nieuwe Instituut becomes the world’s first Zoöp – a revolutionary organisational model in which people work together with all other forms of life

New York-based architecture and design platform The World Around returns this year on Saturday, February 5, for the third edition of its annual summit celebrating architecture and design's now, near and next. Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum are TWA Institutional Partners for 2022.

The World Around presents groundbreaking architecture and design projects from the past year at its third annual Summit 

Through its annual Call for Fellows, Het Nieuwe Instituut invited applicants to submit a research proposal for a fellowship from October 2021 to March 2022. The jury has now awarded two Research Fellowships and one Research Stipend. The three selected projects each demonstrate timeliness and ambition, as well as fostering collective forms of research and networks of solidarity. The selected Research Fellows are MELT and The School of Mutants_,_ and a Research Stipend goes to Robin Hartanto Honggare.

International Call for Fellows 2020: Selected Fellows Announced

Ecology is now a well-known concept in architecture and urban planning. The research installation Habitat: Expanding Architecture, on show from 19 October, highlights one of the first moments in which ecological thinking was introduced in architectural discussions: the tenth CIAM congress in Dubrovnik, 1956. 

Press release Habitat: Expanding Architecture

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