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Carson Chan, the Director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and Natural Environment at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, was in the Netherlands for a professional visit and as jury of the Prix de Rome Architecture Prize 2022.

On occasion of the opening of the exhibition ‘In Search of the Pluriverse’ at the Nieuwe Instituut on April 22 2022, contributors Suzanne Dhaliwal, Mhairi Killin, Isa Fermeux and Jay Jordan (on behalf of la C.A.R., Cellule d’Actions Rituelles) were invited to the Netherlands to exchange ideas with fellow Netherlands-based contributors of the exhibition.

Disegno Journal was invited to travel to Rotterdam to officially launch Design Drafts, an open call for new design writers and writing on 28 April, 2022.  

For Rewire’s 2022 discourse programme RITUAL, the festival invited a series of artists and theorists to explore the theme of ritual in their work and to foster exchange between audiences and professionals in the fields of music/art/critical theory/digital culture during the festival from April 7-10, 2022. Find an overview and summary of the contributions/events/exchanges for each of the four international visitors below.

Art collective Lundahl & Seitl (SE) and Untold Garden (UK) visited Eindhoven in April 2022 as part of STRP Festival, where they presented their co-created work Garden of Ghost Flowers. They also spoke during STRP Scenario #18, part of STRP's dialogue programme, and presented their work Infinite Conversations.

Housing Futures was a workshop and talk programme held on April 15th and 16th 2022 that followed the research project Architecture of Appropriation and was organized under the accompanying programme of the current exhibition Designing the Social: Appropriation as Collective Resistance.

In 2022, María Clelia Viollaz, Dean of Architecture in the University of San Pablo T, Argentina was invited to visit the Netherlands between May 9 to 14 through the International Visitors Program.

Between June 11 and June 12, 2022, the visits of Elias and Yousef Anastas (PL/FR), Lina Ghotmeh (LB/FR), Manuel Herz (DE/CH), Anupama Kundoo (IN/DE), Boonserm Premthada (TH), Maria Lisogorskaya (UK), Philippe Rahm (BE), Megan Suau (RW/USA) was made possible by The International Visitors’ Program.

Urban anthropologist Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman from Philadelphia (US) attended the International Rooftop Knowledge Day 2022 in the Netherlands from 1 to 7 June. This annual English-language knowledge event, focusing on the potential of roofs, is organised by Rotterdamse Dakendagen in collaboration with the Architecture Institute Rotterdam (AIR).

From 30 June to 3 July 2022, the (A)WAKE Foundation brought the festival New Radicalisms – but... where are you really from? back to the Zomerhofkwartier in Rotterdam Noord. Nabil Canaan (LE) and Adam Kucharski and Harshini Karunaratne (SL/PE) joined the programme as part of the Nieuwe Instituut’s International Visitors Programme.

Leonard Menchiari, an Italian film and video game director, was in the Netherlands from 23 to 26 June as part of the Nieuwe Instituut’s Visitors Programme. MaMA, and programme maker Sebastiaan Hoogstraten, invited Menchiari to visit the MACHT VAN WIE! exhibition project, which was on show in the MaMA showroom from 29 April to 26 June.

After digital participation in The World Around in June 2022, Alexander Shevchenko, founder of the Non-Governmental Organization ReStart Ukraine, visited the Netherlands to find ways and formats of institutional cooperation.

As part of the MINOR | Rethinking the Narrative programme, and also as part of the Nieuwe Instituut’s International Visitors Programme, the Office for Metropolitan Information (OMI) hosted two architecture studios in August 2022. Atelier Fanelsa (Niklas Fanelsa) from Berlin and the Polish agency Centrala (Simone De lacobis and Gosia Kuciewicz) each gave a lecture as well as participating in a workshop and an expert meeting.

Throughout September 2022, the International Visitors Program hosted the To Be Determined Trojan Horse Cell (Alfred Marasigan, Clara Balaguer, Czar Kristoff, and Isola Tong), a group of loosely organized cultural workers researching forms of archiving, in Rotterdam.

During the opening seminar of The Solar Biennale at the Nieuwe Instituut on 9 September 2022, Alex Nathanson shared his thoughts and work on the intersection of solar technology and the digital domain. In his talk, Alex focused on the Solar Protocol: an experimental network of small solar-powered data servers around the world, that wants to frame the Internet as a natural resource.

In September 2022, Avery Trufelman (US) was the guest of honour at the Podcast Festival 2022. As an internationally renowned podcast producer, she was invited by the International Visitors Programme to inspire the Dutch podcast scene. Her specific focus on design and architecture proved to be an interesting perspective for the audience.

Syndiso Nyoni (SA) was in the Netherlands between 5 and 16 October for the Afrovibes Festival. He was invited by the International Visitors Programme to the 19th edition of the festival, which took place in theatres in Amsterdam (Frascati Theater, De Balie, Bijlmer Parktheater and CC Amstel), Utrecht (Stadsschouwburg and Theaster Kikker) and Rotterdam (Maaspodium, Theater Zuidplein and the Kunsthal).

In October 2022, an international delegation of professionals with diverse specializations in the fields of architecture, design and digital culture came together to participate in the International Visitors Program, co-organized by the Nieuwe Instituut, Dutch Culture and Dutch Design Foundation.

Between October 31 to November 4 2022, the International Visitors Program hosted two renowned United States-based curators for a professional visit in order to get acquainted with peer organisations, latest collection-based trends and challenges, and current architecture and design landscape in the Netherlands.

Olivier Zeitoun, Deputy Curator at the Design department of the National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou in Paris, was invited to the Netherlands through the International Visitors Program between November 15 an 18, 2022.