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Lois Hutubessy and Anya (Anna) Naumova of the Nieuwe Instituut will present their paper on the Asterisk*, a new archival tool, at the 17th International Conference on the Inclusive Museum in Vienna.

Working groups can be so much more than corporate problem-solvers. This article explores the creative and experimental use of the working group by the members of the Collective Otherwise initiative.

The Creative Industries Fund NL has selected 13 projects in the open call Hidden (Hi)stories. The open call, a collaboration with the Nieuwe Instituut, focuses on unlocking hidden stories through design.

María Novas Ferradas, Setareh Noorani, and Lidewij Tummers, will present their paper ‘Transferring Otherwise’, on October 5th 2023, during the sixth ICAG (International Congress on Architecture and Gender) in Valencia.

Nieuwe Instituut and the Creative Industries Fund NL invite designers and collectives to submit a proposal for an international collaborative project aimed at uncovering hidden stories through design.

In September 2022, Het Nieuwe Instituut organised a series of activities with the aim of bringing together different generations of feminists for a month of inspiring, urgent conversations, situated around the exhibition room Feminist Design Strategies.

How does the power of the archive shape curatorial work? What forms of sociality emerge from the process of working with artists, curatorial staff and other collaborators? And how do curators navigate the power dynamics and institutional roles that mediate this process? What are the roles of care and facilitation in curating? How might curating be understood as ‘anarrangement’, meaning a collaborative practice of arranging that works up and over, across, through, back and against?

The institute's Setareh Noorani joined Thobile Chittenden, Fulco Treffers and Meghann Ormond for an evening exploring conflicting interests, systemic barriers and power dynamics in co-design.

In May 2022, Working Group member Hannah Dawn Henderson, artist in residence at the Rijksacademie, exhibited the installation Blueprints. This piece built on her work with Collecting Otherwise. In it, she drew parallels between architectural and archival practices that reinforce cultural values and social norms. This is her artist’s statement.

In January 2022, students of the MSc in Archival and Information Studies at the University of Amsterdam researched the Vrouwen Bouwen Wonen network archive as a case study at the Nieuwe Instituut.

On Thursday 24 March 2022, the members of Collecting Otherwise gathered in the familiar space of Zoom to launch the second edition: PostDeColonial. This event set the stage for dialogues and perspectives that focus on decolonisation as a means of restitution in heritage institutions and archives. What role can institutions play in reconstructing heritage? And how do we think about and implement restitution?

Artist and Working Group member Hannah Dawn Henderson wanders and wonders on inhabiting as preserving.