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Since its debut at the Nieuwe Instituut in 2022, the XR installation Alison’s Room has played a starring role at media festivals at home and abroad.

The Jaap Bakema Study Centre has issued a call for papers for its annual conference on the intertwining of modernity, coloniality and architecture.

Queer Encounters in the Archive: Misplaced Love Letters and Autobiographical Homes, examines the act of queering in relation to the Dutch national architecture collection. This research was published in Queering Architecture, an edited volume by Marko Jobs and Naomi Stead.

Architecture Archives of the Future delves into the evolving relationships between architectural practice, archival research, and exhibition making. The proceedings the 10th annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, are now available for download.

Alison’s Room: An Extended Reality Archive, an XR installation by Paula Strunden, can be seen at various locations in the coming weeks, including in Utrecht during the Netherlands Film Festival.

How to futurise the past, and curate the future? The Jaap Bakema Study Centre (JBSC) invites contributions to its annual conference, which is dedicated to architecture archives, research and exhibitions.

You can now download the proceedings of Building Data, the 9th conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre.

What would a museum without walls look like? Three prototypes, developed for a new virtual museum, explore the possibilities - using the National Collection's CIAM archives as source material.

The Observers Observed explores ethnography's influence on architecture. The conference proceedings can be downloaded here.

Architect and researcher Alejandro Campos Uribe explains his project on multiculturalism in post-war architecture, in which he focuses on the work of Aldo van Eyck, and particularly the home he shared with Hannie van Eyck.

The workshop Behind the Screens discussed a variety of topics relating to digital archives, such as acquisition, management and preservation, accessibility, usability and publishing.

Repositioning Architecture in the Digital critically explores the interplay between architecture and digital culture since the 1970s.