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.
Closed calls

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...
➝ Read more
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...
➝ Read more
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...
➝ Read more
3 May 2023
Open Call: New Store
Nieuwe Instituut calls for designers interested in testing products, systems or services that contribute to regeneration...
➝ Read more
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...
➝ Read more
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...
➝ Read more
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… ...
➝ Read more
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...
➝ Read more
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…...
➝ Read more
13 April 2022
Open Call: is design just a game?
Het Nieuwe Instituut's Design Drafts programme in collaboration with Disegno Journal (London) presents an open call for ...
➝ Read more
27 March 2022
Open Call: Tilting Axis Fellowship 2023
Het Nieuwe Instituut and Tilting Axis are launching the third iteration of the Fellowship program for mid-career or esta...
➝ Read more
27 January 2022
Open Call: Open Archive 3.0
Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and the International Institute of Social History (...
➝ Read more