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Open Calls
Nieuwe Instituut issues several open calls a year. These are invitations to individuals and collectives outside the organisation to contribute to the institute’s activities, for example with a research proposal, fellowship, guest essay or artwork. All the calls are listed here in a regularly updated overview.
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6 June 2024
Open Call: Staying with Modernity? (Dis)Entangling Coloniality and Architecture
The Jaap Bakema Study Centre has issued a call for papers for its annual conference on the intertwining of modernity, co...
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10 June 2024
Open Call: Design Drafts #3
Nieuwe Instituut’s Design Drafts and Journal Safar invite submissions exploring the theme "protest" within the realm of ...
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29 May 2024
Open Call: Tilting Axis Fellowship 2025
Nieuwe Instituut and Tilting Axis are launching the fifth iteration of the Fellowship program for applicants based in th...
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11 January 2024
Open Call for the International Visitors Programme 2024
Nieuwe Instituut invites cultural organisations in the Netherlands to apply for a grant of up to €2,500 to support the v...
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10 July 2023
Open Call: Hidden (Hi)stories
Nieuwe Instituut and the Creative Industries Fund NL invite designers and collectives to submit a proposal for an intern...
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18 June 2023
Call for Fellows 2023: Tool Sheds
Nieuwe Instituut’s research team proposes Tool Sheds as the theme for this year’s Call for Fellows. This iteration focus...
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12 May 2023
Open Call: Tilting Axis Fellowship 2024
Nieuwe Instituut and Tilting Axis are launching the fourth iteration of the Fellowship program for applicants based in t...
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3 May 2023
Open Call: New Store
Nieuwe Instituut calls for designers interested in testing products, systems or services that contribute to regeneration...
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27 April 2023
Open Call: Architecture Archives of the Future
How to futurise the past, and curate the future? The Jaap Bakema Study Centre (JBSC) invites contributions to its annual...
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25 April 2023
Open call Design Drafts #2: Manifestations
Nieuwe Instituut’s Design Drafts programme in collaboration with PIN–UP Magazine presents an open call for up-and-coming...
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5 September 2022
Dutch presentation London Design Biennale 2023
Het Nieuwe Instituut is launching an open call for (individual) curators, designers and collectives to send a proposal… ...
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31 August 2022
Open Call: The Biennale as Metabolism
Nieuwe Instituut and Creative Industries Fund NL are launching an open call for proposals from (landscape) architects, u...
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14 June 2022
Call for Fellows 2022: Testing Grounds
Since its foundation in 2013, Het Nieuwe Instituut has carried out and supported research in architecture, design and d…...
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