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After Summer School 2024

Piet Blom. Living as an Urban Roof, 1965. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, archive BLOM p8

The After Summer School presents a Rotterdam-based Curriculum for Change. A wide variety of knowledge producers will teach their methods on how to change the city by looking, listening, writing, archiving, collaborating, activating, researching, designing, and walking differently. Assemble your own programme and buy tickets for classes online!

Project image New Academy / After Summer School 2024. Graphic design: Cengiz Mengüç.

30 September - 4 October 2024

During the After Summer School over 20 public classes will take place throughout the city, presenting Rotterdam as a hub for knowledge that deserves to be recognised and included in the city development.

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Monday

We kick off the first After Summer School with classes by Rosi Braidotti, Independent School for the City, Waterschool, a Zoöp Detour, and more.

See the programme for Monday 30 September

Tuesday

Day two of the After Summer School, themed ‘Narrative’, features Verhalenhuis Belvédère, Architectuur MAKEN, Vers Beton, Niels Spaans, and Stadspark West.

See the programme for Tuesday 1 October

Wednesday

Classes by the Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative, Ursula Biemann & Santiago del Hierro, Vatan Huzeir, and Waterschool are part of this day around the theme ‘Activism’.

See the programme for Wednesday 2 October

Thursday

Join classes by OMI, Huis van de Toekomst, Zoöp, Stichting Wijkcollectie, Ursula Biemann, and more on this ‘Knowledge’-themed day.

See the programme for Thursday 3 October

Friday

We’re closing off the After Summer School with Fenmei Hu, Varia, Concrete Blossom, Cape Verdean music, and a festive conclusion.

See the programme for Friday 4 October

The New Academy

The New Academy is an initiative of the Nieuwe Instituut in collaboration with philosopher Rosi Braidotti that reimagines Rotterdam as a knowledge city. It aims to create a local platform for new ways of learning to address complex social and ecological challenges together. It is centred around knowledge that is city-based, minoritarian, more-than-human, and embodied.

Partners

During the After Summer School the New Academy works with Afrikaanderwijk Coöperatie, Changerism, Concrete Blossom, Huis van de Toekomst / Transition-Scapes, Independent School for the City, Internationale Architectuur Biënnale Rotterdam, Niels Spaans, Nieuwe Instituut, OMI | Stories about Architecture, Santiago del Hierro, Shay Kreuger, Stadspark West, Stichting Wijkcollectie, Stine Jensen / EsPhil, Ursula Biemann, Varia, Verhalenhuis Belvédère, Vers Beton, WaterSchool / Stichting het Park and Zoöp.

Curriculum for Change

As one of its activities, The New Academy develops a Curriculum for Change: a series of courses, talks, workshops and other activities that show and teach a plural, inclusive and interdisciplinary (design) approach to the city.

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