Projects

Zoöp Nieuwe Instituut

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').

Netwerk Archieven Design en Digitale Cultuur

The Network Archives Design and Digital Culture (NADD) is an expanding partnership of heritage, knowledge and research organisations and individual archive holders. More than 70 network members, including the Nieuwe Instituut, work together on developing sustainable solutions to preserve design and digital culture archives and make them accessible.

The New Academy

What would a (cognitive) city look like if it were designed by all its citizens? The New Academy, an initiative of the Nieuwe Instituut in collaboration with philosopher Rosi Braidotti, reimagines Rotterdam as a knowledge city.

New Store 3.0 in het Nieuwe Instituut. Foto Petra van der Ree

New Store

With the New Store, Nieuwe Instituut imagines a store where shopping helps the environment instead of harming it. After two New Store pop-up stores in Eindhoven and Milan, you can now step into New Store 3.0 in the foyer of the Nieuwe Instituut.

Archiefmateriaal van Bureau B+B, 2023. Foto: Johannes Schwartz.

Memory of the Designed Landscape

The Memory of the Designed Landscape programme calls for the protection of garden and landscape architecture archives.

New Garden, 2023. Photo Petra van der Ree

New Garden

New Garden has been part of the outdoor space of the Nieuwe Instituut since 2015. Ecological management and creating a high level of biodiversity are the starting points for its design.

Border Park Groot Saeftinghe. Photo: Sven Dullaert

Bauhaus of the Seas Sails

Nieuwe Instituut participates in the Delta pilot of Bauhaus of the Seas Sails (BoSS), a European project that focuses on the most critically endangered shared space in the EU and the world: seas, oceans and other water bodies.

Convivium workshop in Verhalenhuis Belvédère, Rotterdam.

Convivium

Nieuwe Instituut participates in Convivium, a three-year European research project that rethinks food heritage through the lens of sustainability and community engagement.

11:03PM (2024). Céline Hurka. Image courtesy of the artist.

Through Sounds

Through Sounds is a long-term research project that looks at 'sonic culture' as a field for spatial and social design

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.

New Currents: Indian Ocean Futures

A research project that explores how evolving national ties and the exchange of ideas and material cultures shape the future of the Indian Ocean region

Symposium _Futures of Spatial Design_, 2024. Photo Tomas Mutsaers.

Future Studio Oostkop

Future Studio Oostkop is a workspace at the Nieuwe Instituut open to anyone interested in contributing to the spatial future of the Netherlands through design research.

Volume 65

Volume

Volume magazine is a global platform for ideas about the social, cultural and political role of architecture and design in the broadest sense. Volume is a joint publication of publisher Archis and Nieuwe Instituut.

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