Writing Otherwise
As part of the process of research and making public, on this page Collecting Otherwise's Working Group publishes its ongoing, always under contruction* writings that reflect on tools and methodologies, case studies and the archive.
An engraving of elaborate rooftop sukkahs built by the Sephardic community in Amsterdam, likely illustrated by Johann Georg Puschner and published in Jüdisches Ceremoniel by Paul Christian Kirchner (a later edition would be extensively edited by…
A wandering conversation on preservation
Artist and Working Group member Hannah Dawn Henderson wanders and wonders on inhabiting as preserving.
Page from A Caring Zine Update #1, the first zine of Collecting Otherwise
An Annotation on Footnotes
Written by artist and working group member Hannah Dawn Henderson, a contribution for the first TNL! Public Gathering of Collecting Otherwise, on February 2021.
Tussentijdsekrant n.3, Vrouwen Bouwen Wonen. 1984. Source: Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Vrouwen Bouwen Wonen and Networking as Feminist Practice
Networks of Care - How do we go about rebuilding communities and empowering them through the networks we build and inhabit? And how do we re-structure care in networking, as a pre-digital, nurturing, feminist practice?
![Luzia Hartsuyker, architect, and the coordination group in “Inspiratie en een lange adem: het projekt burgerziekenhuis voor vrouwen, nu en straks”, 1988. Source: Archive [Women Building Living Housing] / Bureau Tussen-Ruimte. Donation by Lidewij…](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcmsfiles.nieuweinstituut.nl%2Fq2xh2zmybb1q85em02x4f85zvv8mveb7_230f2286ca.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
Luzia Hartsuyker, architect, and the coordination group in “Inspiratie en een lange adem: het projekt burgerziekenhuis voor vrouwen, nu en straks”, 1988. Source: Archive [Women Building Living Housing] / Bureau Tussen-Ruimte. Donation by Lidewij…
Trans-Institutional Supra-Archives
Working Group member Michael Karabinos reflects on how multiple stories cut across multiple archives.
Lidewij Tummers' Vrouwen Bouwen Wonen living room archive, Working Group visit.
The Living Archive
Researcher Federica Notari wrote this essay as her contribution to Gathering #4: Soft Closing, in December of 2021, marking the end of the first year of Collecting Otherwise.
Reading Otherwise
This selection of essays, articles and other references is our ever-growing library list. It contributes to our research and establishes frames and lenses through which to see our case studies.
Archiving, Collectivity and Self-Publishing
Stichting Goed Wonen: Workgroup. Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, SGWO f1-100. © Arjé Plas/MAI.
Architecture / Community / Histories
Women’s Liberation Workshop in London, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Collectivity / Design / Histories
Gunta Stölzl, Slit Tapestry Red-Green, 1927–28. Source: Leire Orueta Gómez, via Wikimedia Commons
Community / Histories / Design
Film still, “The Museum Will Not Be Decolonised”, Arwa Aburawa. Source: https://vimeo.com/302162709
Decoloniality / Narratives / Gaps
Sketch for New Archive Interpretations. Image: Richard Vijgen
Narratives / Design / HNI
Borsaline after work. Alessandria, 1941. From A Hat and a Bicycle. Welfare capitalism and the female working body by Elisa Giuliano
Labour / Body / Industry
Betty Jennings (Mrs. Bartik) and Frances Bilas (Mrs. Spence) operating the ENIAC’s main control panel while the machine was still located at the Moore School. Source: ARL Technical Library/Historic Computer Images/Public Domain
Histories / Local / Power The Undutiful Daughter's Concept of Archival Metabolism
Arrangement of various office furniture. Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, VRIX_ph951-a.
Labour / Institutions / Community Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective, & Collaborative Cultural Work
Decoloniality / Gaps / Histories What you see
Photo taken in the Dutch East Indies, collected or made by H.P. Berlage, n.d. Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, BERL ph324
Gaps / Narratives / Care Moving Toward a Reparative Archive
From a scrapbook about model homes furnished by Goed Wonen, 1950s-1960s. SGWO_137-page 365.
Gaps / Histories / Authorship The Power of the Archive and its Limits
Gender / Labour / Care The Secretary: Invisible Labor in the Workworld of Women
Collection / Netherlands / Labour Colonial Constructions of a Dutch Women's Movement: 1898
Gaps / Photography / Unseen Chasing Phantoms in the Archives: The Australia House Photograph Collection
Media / Collectives / Decoloniality Inward Outward, Critical Archival Engagements with Sounds and Films of Coloniality
Archival Theories / Feminism / Gender Critical Feminism in the Archives
Living, Fluidity and Space
Constant Nieuwenhuys, New Babylon, 1961, litho. Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, archive Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam (ABAM). Copyright Pictoright.
Queer / Architecture / Gaps Queering Architecture: (Un)Making Places
Model homes Amsterdam Osdorp, 11-1959 / 8-1969. Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, SGWO_f36-66a
Space / Histories / Process A Room of One's Own
Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories, by Bernard Cache. Source: Riverwash Books
Narratives / Subjectivity / Origins Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories
Page from “De Keurige Leugens van het Officieel Fatsoen". Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, BOOQ_fa 12-41
Queer / Gaps / Subjectivity Cartographies of the Present
Community / Histories / Performance Performing the Archival Body: Inciting Queered Feminist (Dis)locational Rhetorics Through Place-Based Pedagogies
K.P.C de Bazel. Archive in the Nederlandse Handelmaatschappij office building, Amsterdam, 1920-1926. Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, BAZE 1504
Histories / Narratives / Institution Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism
Decoliality / Narratives / Archiving Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands
Gaps / Gender / Navigation Architecture from without: Body, Logic, and Sex
Queer / Space / Dialogues Queering Architecture: Diversity of Gender and Sexuality in the Profession
Narratives / Archiving / Feminism Matrix Group Pool
Feminism / Architects / History The Not-Seen
Telling, Positionality and Care
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, by bell hooks. Source: Taylor & Francis Group
Intersectionality / Gaps / Dialogue Choosing The Margin As A Space Of Radical Openness
“Your silence will not protect you. -Audre Lorde” New York City Women's March, January 2017. Source: oinonio, via Wikipedia Commons.
Narratives / Fluidity / Collectivity Poetry Is Not a Luxury (1985)
Rossella Biscotti, Senza titolo (Dai tempo al tempo), 2008. Video, 16 mm. on DVD, 11’05’’ min, sound by Jacob Kirkegaard. Courtesy Archivio Pietro Pensa CC-BY-SA. Artwork commissioned by Associazione Amici del Museo delle Grigne Onlus, curator I…
Decoloniality / Narratives / Gaps Refusing to Take Root
ADM. Pizza Tower. From: Architecture of Appropriation. On Squatting as Spatial Practice.
Community / Narratives / Collectivity On Care and Carelessness
Design / Technology / Representation As if
Intimacy / Activism / Self-publishing Harm Reduction is Not a Metaphor
Narratives / Histories / Identity The records of memory, the archives of identity: Celebrations, texts and archival sensibilities