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In collaboration with MU Hybrid Art House, the NADD shows the archive of designer Richard Vijgen. Vijgen approaches his archive as an active part of his hybrid design practice. But as the number of works and projects increases over time, the expanding archive also requires more care.

In collaboration with EKWC, the NADD shows the archive of designer Guus Kusters. For Kusters, the archive is not a static record of his working process, but a dynamic residue from which new ideas can constantly emerge.

What is known about the process of gamedesign and what does an archive of a game look like? In collaboration with Sound & Vision, the NADD shows the archive of Wispfire's 'Herald', the first Dutch game whose development process is archived.

Stylist and art teacher Carlien Macnack has collected a large variety of angisas over decades. The diverse textiles, and folding and binding techniques, demonstrate the rich tradition of this Afro-Surinamese headdress.

A presentation on Hans Appenzeller's multi-faceted career and archive is currently on display at the Design Museum Den Bosch. Yet this archive material can not find a home at the Design Museum because, like many museums in the Netherlands, the museum lacks the possibility to make these archives publicly available.

At the Depot of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen you can now view the archive of Christophe Coppens. After losing his archive, Coppens incorporated the remnants into 50 sculptures. By turning the archival material into an artwork it became an irreversible end product, making it inaccessible as an archive.

The archive of Doors of Perception contains valuable information that sheds light on the extraordinary period of technological innovation in the nineties, both in the Netherlands and internationally. This contrasts sharply with the status of the archive, which cannot currently be taken up by Dutch institutions.

The installation at the TextielMuseum shows the versatility of Hella Jongerius' acclaimed design practice through her textile design archive. The presentation highlights the poignant issue when there is the wish to acquire an archive, but the resources are lacking.

Debra Solomon's work the_living consists of a series of performances mediated by the computer screen and composed of Web pages, image windows, chat logs, computer code and sound. But if the archive is not preserved, this born-digital project lives only as a memory on the Internet.

From 1981 to 1995, Cubic3 Design was led by Gerwin van Vulpen and Ton Hoogerwerf. Cubic3 produced controversial objects infused with humour that reflected on social themes and the design profession itself. Van Vulpen and Hoogerwerf's working life is soon coming to an end, but still, there is no place for their archives.