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Hidden (Hi)stories presents projects that use design research to explore hidden stories from the Dutch colonial past and postcolonial present.

Join us for the first public presentation of the Asterisk*, a tool developed by the Collecting Otherwise Working Group to help describe objects in archives in a more thorough, critical and contextualised way.

Join us at the Arus Balik – Shifting Currents Symposium, where a wide range of panelists explore and discuss the histories of inequality and violence of contemporary architecture.

Join us at the Arus Balik – Shifting Currents Symposium, where a wide range of panelists explore and discuss the histories of inequality and violence of contemporary architecture.

Attend the opening of the GUD Institute Living Room, part of the Arus Balik – Shifting Currents programme.

Celebrate International Women’s Day with a multi-sensory journey through the institute, courtesy of a creative group of feminist artists.

Join us as we explore the hidden stories behind the vital, yet often overlooked, contributions of women to architecture, planning and design.

The third event about the Tool Shed, which underlines the iterative, communal and accessible nature of the Tool Shed, where knowledge, wisdom and resources (as tools) can be cared for and exchanged.

Think of your garden as an archive: what knowledge is stored in its plants, layout and inhabitants? Whose stories does it tell? By engaging with Sri Lankan art and nature, the All Right Angles residential workshop used the garden as a means of rethinking architecture, art and ecology.

Creative Industries Fund NL and the Nieuwe Instituut are jointly organising an information evening in the context of the Open Call and work/learning trajectory Hidden (Hi)stories.

Discover the overlooked contributions of women to the history of architecture with the editors of 'Women in Architecture' during this book launch.

Unlock the 'Tool Shed' and join in on conversations about tools of access with Collecting Otherwise, Working Group members, invited speakers, networks and other attendees.