Dissident GardensDissident Gardens

Lab 3: Terrafiction in the Terraforming Earth series will focus on the narrative development of a new 21st-century society, and will lead to a small collection of written or visualized speculative short stories set in the world that is laid out by the work of the previous Labs.

This event highlights the pop-in expo Building for Biodiversity with an experts and public discussion about the urgency of the theme biodiversity as a necessity for 'Quality of Life' in the future city. With Mathias Lehner, Frank Bruggeman, Maike van Stiphout and André de Baerdemaeker.

_This workshop has been cancelled. _

The architect Arna Mačkić is concerned with questions of collective identity in countries and cities, and in how architecture can play a mediatory role. In this workshop she introduces participants to her way of thinking, leading to a more inclusive approach to the design of public space.

The Geometric Gardens are located in a forest clearing near the Herning Art Museum in Herning, Denmark. The composition consists of nine geometric shapes, an eleven meters long disc, six polygons with eleven meters long sides, a circle and an oval. In this pop-in expo Joost Emmerik presents models of The Geometric Gardens and a series of photographs by Christina Capetillo.

Take your controller apart and put it back together again! In this hands-on workshop with Anja Groten and Heerko van der Kooij (Hackers & Designers), participants join battle with the computer.

On Thursday 21st of June Het Nieuwe Instituut brings an ode to the longest and warmest day of the year, inspired by the Dissident Gardens programme. It's going to be a sizzling hot evening with food, music, exhibitions, live radio, performances, rituals and garden walks.

This year, the Land van Hoboken is the new site for Architecture Day. During the kick-off to Architecture Day OMI and Het Nieuwe Instituut will give a lecture where they zoom in closer on the history of Hoboken, the current and future developments in the Museumpark and the wealth of urban parks in Rotterdam.

Where does nature end and our body begin? Explore this through dance and movement under the inspiring supervision of the Amenti Collective.

The second in the series of Terraforming Earth Labs investigates how various autonomous technologies can support the emergence and regeneration of ecosystems.

Discover your creativity with the help of multidisciplinary artist Maarten Bel.

Eduard Böhtlingk shows two of his mobile projects: The Marquis and OPENhuis to address the blurring boundaries between what is built and what is around it. Increasing mobility is generated by projects such as the rise and creation of tiny houses and stimulated by the smartphone that disconnects people from a fixed location. In this way, a new impulse is given to mobile architecture.

The second episode of the live radio show Garden Broadcasts looks at the idea of acclimatisation of foreign species and people to new climates or cultures. With guests Esther Helena Arens, Kiza Magendane, Zuri Camille de Souza and Johanna Seelemann.