About usAbout us

Nieuwe Instituut invites cultural organisations in the Netherlands to apply for a grant of up to €2,500 to support a visit by one or more international guests.

Nieuwe Instituut’s Design Drafts and Journal Safar invite submissions exploring the theme "protest" within the realm of design, urban intervention, and visual culture.

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

Nieuwe Instituut and Tilting Axis are launching the fifth iteration of the Fellowship program for applicants based in the Caribbean.

Nieuwe Instituut invites cultural organisations in the Netherlands to apply for a grant of up to €2,500 to support the visit of one or more international guests.

Nieuwe Instituut and the Creative Industries Fund NL invite designers and collectives to submit a proposal for an international collaborative project aimed at uncovering hidden stories through design.

Nieuwe Instituut’s research team proposes Tool Sheds as the theme for this year’s Call for Fellows. This iteration focuses on researching and applying tools, instruments, formats and methods that would help to foster a society that supports all life. Researchers “inhabit” the space of the “Tool Sheds” to test and share tools and applied methodologies, metaphorical or otherwise. 

Nieuwe Instituut and Tilting Axis are launching the fourth iteration of the Fellowship program for applicants based in the Caribbean.

Nieuwe Instituut calls for designers interested in testing products, systems or services that contribute to regeneration rather than extraction and exhaustion. In order to do so, it offers a physical ‘testing ground’, a new kind of retail model: New Store.

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.

Nieuwe Instituut’s Design Drafts programme in collaboration with PIN–UP Magazine presents an open call for up-and-coming and mid-career writers to investigate, draft and manifest new vocabularies in design.

Het Nieuwe Instituut is launching an open call for (individual) curators, designers and collectives to send a proposal…

Nieuwe Instituut and Creative Industries Fund NL are launching an open call for proposals from (landscape) architects, urban planners and spatial researchers that will expose the invisible flows of materials, waste and labour that lie behind the exhibitions at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Mapping and visualising this metabolism can increase the insight and awareness needed to develop a more sustainable biennale that makes a positive contribution to the Venetian ecosystem.