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Nieuwe Instituut and STIR invite submissions exploring the theme Design Dialects, which focuses on how design knowledge travels, transforms, and is reshaped across cultures, contexts, and systems of power.

In this guest contribution to New Currents, artists Lou Mo and Musquiqui Chihying trace the historical journeys of members of the Chinese Hakka community in Mauritius and Réunion Island.

-1 Digital Lab invites digital culture practitioners and enthusiasts to join the group of readers or interlocutors to delve into theoretical reading materials.

This second issue in Through Sounds' Clippings series explores how dynamics of transformation are central to building archives that remain ‘alive’ through time.

A look back at the week-long programme that featured two leading figures in sustainable architecture: Yasmeen Lari and Marina Tabassum.

A look back at an afternoon filled with sound, performances, and lectures as part of the New Currents research project.

Research project Through Sounds presents Clipping 1: Coming of Age, the first edition in a series of print publications on sound and sonic (sub)cultures.

Nieuwe Instituut presents a series of manuals designed to encourage a fresh approach to archives, paying closer attention to restoration, fairness and lesser-known perspectives.

In a new publication presenting findings, tools and proposals, Nieuwe Instituut’s Remapping Collaborations Working Group highlights how international cultural events can embrace unpredictability, opacity, and discomfort in their forms of collaboration.

The opening night of the ruang tamu marks the start of an exciting, collaborative programme on Indonesian-Dutch design legacies.

We are pleased to announce that in 2025 the Research team at Nieuwe Instituut are marks the 10th anniversary of the Nieuwe Instituut’s Research Fellowship programme.

The writer and artist from Trinidad and Tobago has been selected as the fifth Tilting Axis / Nieuwe Instituut Fellow.