Programme symposium regenerative archivesProgramme symposium regenerative archives

• 9:30 Doors open
• 10:00 – 12:00 Plenary session
• 12:00 – 12:30 Coffee break
• 12:30 – 14:00 Roundtable lunch
• 14:00 – 14:45 Roundtable feedback
• 14:45 – 15:15 Coffee break
• 15:15 – 18:00 Workshops and listening sessions
• 18:00 – 20:00 Closing performance and DJ set

Buy a day ticket and sign up for one of the four workshops you would like to attend in the afternoon.

Tickets include refreshments and lunch.

Please note: The workshops start at 15:15, but the ticket is valid for the whole day – the programme begins at 10:00 with the plenary session.

How do you archive living, changing things? Should an archive always remain the same, or can it grow along with its contents? In The Archive as a Garden curator Pleun van Dijk and designer Jaap Knevel discuss their work for the Future Materials Bank and the Living Library. They will talk about how they preserve and describe living materials, reflecting on an archive that can grow, change and may one day need to be preserved.

Presentation of NADD’s new digital infrastructure and website, developed with 50 partner institutions and other collaborators. Remco van Bladel and Mariana Lanari from Archival Consciousness will demonstrate the website and the data visualisation together with Bibi Bodegom. Lizzy Jongma (War Sources), Doug McCarthy (Open Future) and Migiza Victoriashoop (Amsterdam City Archives) will then discuss digital infrastructures. How do we ensure that these systems remain sustainable and accessible in a rapidly changing world?

How to bring an archive back to life? Designers and makers look at the world with a fresh perspective, searching for new forms and systems. Through creative interventions in the material, hidden stories are revealed and familiar pieces are given new meaning.

Participants can join one of the interactive roundtable discussions over a picnic lunch.

NADD and Through Sounds are organising a roundtable lunch on sound archives and ways of archiving sound. The focus will be on how sound can be both archive and testimony, and how bootlegs, remixes and genres form a living archive, through which the past can be understood in a different way. What role does remix culture play in creating connections between time, people and places? With Zahra Malkani, Golnoosh Heshmati, Melisa Cenik, Voice as Landscape and meLê Yamomo.

This roundtable – co-curated with Lara Khaldi (de Appel) – will look at how artists and designers are experimenting with archival matarial and zines. These publications reproduce and re-mix archival material, re-publishing the archive and circulating it among new audiences. This generates a new counter-archive or political moment. Moderated by Lani Hanna (Interference Archive) and featuring Mayim Freiden (Collecting Otherwise), Tabea Nixdorff (Archival Textures), Learning Palestine, Chad Cordeiro and others.

Artists, designers and researchers will discuss the history of software and the internet. They will explore how different ways of remembering and telling stories can help us to challenge existing norms and imagine new possibilities for the digital world we live in. With Margarita Osipian (The Hmm), Simone C Niquille, Thomas Walskaar (Dead Web Club), Marie Verdeil, Nestor Siré and Iyo Bisseck.

Together with the Network for Garden and Landscape Archives, we will explore how archiving in a nature-inclusive way could look. How do you preserve archives that change and decay? What does ‘regenerative archiving’ mean for architects, urban planners and designers who work with living or natural materials? Maike van Stiphout, landscape architect and Speaker for the Living at the Nieuwe Instituut, will talk with curator of collections Suzanne Mulder and other guests.

Moderator Marsha Simon will discuss the insights shared during the roundtables. What have participants learned about archiving in different media and design practices?

In the afternoon programme you will learn how to use practical tools to archive your own work. Choose one of the four sessions running concurrently.

NADD and Through Sounds organise an afternoon about sound. Atiyyah Kahn, Femke Dekker aka Loma Doom, Alice Twemlow and Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti will talk about how they archive sound. Then we will listen to music together. Bring a USB stick with tracks that are important to you.

Kirsten Algera and Ernst van der Hoeven, editors of MacGuffin magazine, capture design archives for The Life of Things section by photographing designers and their work. Portraits of everyday collections in designers’ homes show how their lives and work are intertwined. After the presentation, you can choose between two workshops: create your own archival zine in a workshop with James Rae Parnell and Ari Ralph, the authors of How to Archive Better. Or, you could join a hands-on Wikidata-publishing workshop with Sandra Fauconnier. Learn how to create your own Wikidata publications, contributing knowledge about underrepresented designers and digital culture makers.

Art and design practices are often part of a larger aesthetic whole. But how do you capture the style, ideas and hidden messages of digital culture, for example through fieldwork or online archives? Join this workshop and take a walk through Rotterdam. A collaboration between The Hmm, a platform for internet culture, and Sofia Lee, photographer, design archivist and computational linguist.

How to archive gardens and public spaces that are constantly changing? This practical workshop will provide designers and architects with useful tools to get started archiving their own work. You will address questions such as: Why do something with your archive? Who do you want to make it available to? And what do you want your target audience to be able to do with the archive? Each participant will receive a copy of the How to Archive Better handbook.

We end the day with a DJ set by Atiyyah Kahn, DJ, archivist, and founder of the music collective Future Nostalgia.