Projects

Collection

The National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning contains drawings, photographs and models from the archives of Dutch architects and urban planners.

Jaap Bakema Study Centre

The Jaap Bakema Study Centre is a collaborative project of the Nieuwe Instituut and the Faculty of Architecture of TU Delft. It initiates and undertakes research projects that result in exhibitions, publications, and public events.

Disclosing Architecture

Disclosing Architecture is the Nieuwe Instituut’s six-year initiative to increase the visibility and continued accessibility of the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning.

Agency for Architecture, Design, and Digital Culture

The Agency for Architecture, Design, and Digital Culture connects design fields with questions from the outside world, both regional and international.

Zoöp

Zoöp is the title of an organisational model for cooperation between human and nonhuman life that safeguards the interests of all zoë (Greek for 'life').

Network Archives Design and Digital Culture

Design and digital culture contribute significantly to the way Dutch society defines, manifests and develops itself. A well-preserved, open and accessible archive is therefore a precondition for the design discipline in order to meet the task assigned to it by Dutch culture and society

The New Academy

The New Academy is an initiative of the Nieuwe Instituut in collaboration with Braidotti which aims to make urban transformation an inclusive process that does justice to a multifaceted city like Rotterdam.

Research

Nieuwe Instituut's Research department explores alternatives to conventional research practices and explores collective forms of knowledge creation through its projects, activities, fellowships and other initiatives.

Onno Greiner. Patio houses Laan Rozenburg in Amstelveen, 1961-1966. Within this series, Greiner also designed his own home. Text on back of photo: 'Our own garden'. Photo Studio Hartland. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, GREO 61018f1-54a.

The Critical Visitor

The Critical Visitor is a research project that investigates how heritage institutions can bring about new forms of inclusiveness and accessibility through their organisation, collections and exhibition policy.

Alison's Room. An Extended Reality Archive. XR-Installation by Paula Strunden. Photo Johannes Schwartz.

Virtual CIAM Museum

What would a museum without walls look like? Three prototypes, developed for a new virtual museum, explore the possibilities - using the National Collection's CIAM archives as source material.

Collecting Otherwise

Drawing on the architecture collection under the Nieuwe Instituut’s management, Collecting Otherwise explores the possibilities for an alternative architectural, heritage and archival practice, one that reflects a society that is constantly changing.

Digital image of various sheets of paper with writing on them. The sheets are only partly visible, overlapping and at an angle.

Design Drafts

Design Drafts is a growing writing and publishing network dedicated to investigating and drafting what it means to write about design today. Through collaborations between the Nieuwe Instituut and different magazines and publishing platforms, the series sets out to stimulate emerging forms of design writing and discourse.

Graphic design: Cengiz Mengüç in collaboration with NM(studio)

20 October 2023 - 28 October 2023

New Store 1.0

Imagine a shop where being a consumer helps, rather than harms, the environment. Nieuwe Instituut presents New Store to rethink the concept of the ‘product’ and explore alternative forms of exchange. The first New Store pop-up opens its doors during Dutch Design Week 2023, at the Residency for the People in Eindhoven.

The Map of India, Arabia, the Horn of Africa the and Indian Ocean by Pedro and Jorge Reinel of the Miller Atlas, a Portuguese illustrated atlas dated from 1519. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Modernisms along the Indian Ocean

Modernisms along the Indian Ocean is a research project that traces how the Indian Ocean connects the intertwined regions of Europe, Africa and Asia through the port cities that line its coastline.

Memory of the Designed Landscape

The Memory of the Designed Landscape programme provides the impetus for a future-proof perspective on the archiving of garden and landscape design. This field currently lacks a clear repository for the archive...

Greenhouse Barendse-DC, Middenmeer, 370.000 sqm. Photo by Johannes Schwartz.

Automated Landscapes

Under the premise that automation disrupts not only labour markets, but the configuration, design and occupation of entire territories, Automated Landscapes documents and reflects upon the emerging architectures and urbanisms of automated labour.

Sonneveld House

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