Jaap Bakema Study Centre
Events
Lectures, talks and symposia organised by the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, often in collaboration with other academic and cultural institutions. Upcoming events can also be found in the Nieuwe Instituut's calendar.
Past Events
![Office for Metropolitan Architecture. The Museumpark. Drawing by Yves Brunier, 1989. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, OMAR 4462-3](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcmsfiles.nieuweinstituut.nl%2FOMAR_4462_3_0fa6e433f7.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
18 June 2024
The Queer Salon #4
The fourth edition of the Queer Salon focuses on the garden as a queer sanctuary. We will explore the archives of landsc...
➝ Read more![Nederlands Documentatiecentrum voor de Bouwkunst ("Netherlands Documentation Center for Architecture") in Amsterdam, one of the predecessors of Nieuwe Instituut. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, Archive NDBK](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcmsfiles.nieuweinstituut.nl%2FNDBK_69_6_copy_d04792ad1b.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
22 November 2023 - 23 November 2023
Architecture Archives of the Future
With this year’s conference, the Jaap Bakema Study Centre celebrates its 10th anniversary and the centennial of the Nati...
➝ Read more![Six photographs in black and white, explaining step by step how the bathing equipment works. A white woman is being lifted in a large metal tub by a white man in a doctors uniform who operates the crane machine.](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcmsfiles.nieuweinstituut.nl%2Fimage001_QS_dc6297157f.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
6 July 2023
The Queer Salon #3
The Queer Salon #3 explores the intersectional acts of queering and cripping with Simon(e) van Saarloos, Kenny Fries, El...
➝ Read more![J. W. C. Boks. Bouwcentrum Rotterdam, exterior, 1946-1949. Photo C. van Weele. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, Archive BOKS ph54. © C. van Weele/MAI](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcmsfiles.nieuweinstituut.nl%2FBOKS_ph54_9_3_kopie_37a10e8b8d.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
23 November 2022 - 24 November 2022
Building Data: Architecture, Memory and New Imaginaries
This year’s Jaap Bakema Study Centre conference revisits a broad topic: the digital. This time, the focus is on the vast...
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22 June 2022
The Queer Salon #2
The second edition of The Queer Salon explores the hidden histories of diverse LGBTIQ+ individuals and communities.
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24 November 2021
The Observers Observed
The Jaap Bakema Study Centre conference explores ethnography's influence on architecture. Since the 19th century, archit...
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9 September 2021
Archival Ways of Knowing
What sort of tacit, embodied and social knowledge can we find in an archive? How can we activate that knowledge? What ev...
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11 February 2021
The Queer Salon #1
The Queer Salon series aims to connect institutionalised, "insider" heritage spaces, such as national archives and colle...
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26 November 2020
Data Landscapes
As part of the programme for the Jaap Bakema Study Centre conference, which aims to critically explore the interplay bet...
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25 November 2020 - 26 November 2020
Repositioning Architecture in the Digital
This year's Jaap Bakema Study Centre conference aims to critically explore the interplay between architecture and digita...
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21 November 2019
Open Architecture as Radical Democracy: Gentle Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg
Esra Akcan is the keynote speaker for the Jaap Bakema Study Centre conference 2019 _Architecture and Democracy 1965-1989...
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20 November 2019 - 21 November 2019
Architecture and Democracy 1965-1989: Urban Renewal, Populism and the Welfare State
This year's international conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre focuses on the years 1965 to 1989, in which welfare...
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