Architecture of AppropriationArchitecture of Appropriation

The Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism is collaborating with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Seoul and Het Nieuwe Instituut to host _Frames of Resistance, _part of the opening weekend of the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbansim (SBAU). The symposium is part of the Thematic Exhibition (DDP, Seoul), and involves Dutch Participants of the Thematic and Cities exhibitions of the Seoul Biennale and other architects and academics from the Netherlands.

Het Nieuwe Instituut will contribute to the 11th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial with Architecture of Appropriation.

Special screening of Era o Hotel Cambridge (The Cambridge Squat, Brazil, 2016) with special guest art director Carla Caffé.

On June 16 2017 the Jaap Bakema Study Centre convened a symposium on the pressing issue of affordable housing, its architecture and planning. The symposium was part of the International Social Housing Festival 2017 and brought together a range of international scholars and designers: Kenny Cupers, Anne Kockelkorn, Jörg Stollmann, René Boer, Mirjana Milanovic, and Dick van Gameren.

Artist and technopolitical strategist Simona Levi talked about her multidisciplinary practice in which she strives for free culture, e-democracy and the strategic use of digital tools for collective organisation, communication and action.

In collaboration with Vereniging Poortgebouw, Het Nieuwe Instituut hosts an evening about forms of local resistance, self-organisation and the economies that sustain them.

On Wednesday 24 May 2017 Het Nieuwe Instituut will host an interview in the exhibition Architecture of Appropriation with Giovanni Bozzoli, co-founder of Macao in Milan, and Nicola Baratto, one of the initiators of The Wandering School project.

From Thursday 30 March 2017 the installation Fight, Squat, Resist: Housing Alternatives of Social Movements will be on view as part of _Architecture of Appropriation, _a long-term research project on squatting as a form of architecture, now on at Het Nieuwe Instituut.

This evening the State Archive for Architecture and Urban Planning was squatted in order to explore traces of the Netherlands' history of squatting and its significance for contemporary architecture. With contributions from curator Hetty Berens, architect Ton Venhoeven, researcher and artist Reinier Kranendonk and researcher and activist René Boer.

_Todopia _is a semi-mobile living / workspace designed by artist Reinier Kranendonk. Through _Todopia _he makes a plea for independent and self-sufficient existence. The various objects within this living / workspace allow the audience to identify with an autarkic way of life.