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Pasts, presents and futures of Indonesian-Dutch design legacies.

As part of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2023 (UAE), the Nieuwe Instituut will host a workshop that asks whether waste and the way we deal with it can be transformed into a regenerative exchange.

Drawing on the architecture collection under the Nieuwe Instituut’s management, Collecting Otherwise explores the possibilities for an alternative architectural, heritage and archival practice, one that reflects a society that is constantly changing.

Under the premise that automation disrupts not only labour markets, but the configuration, design and occupation of entire territories, Automated Landscapes documents and reflects upon the emerging architectures and urbanisms of automated labour.

Conceived as a spa resort, the exhibition Lithium highlights the beneficial and destructive aspects of the eternal human search for energy. Researchers, designers and artists reflect on the role of the ch...

Vertical Atlas is a new atlas to help us navigate the digital geopolitics of the world today. Vertical Atlas is a book, a digital publication and an exhibition. Join us for the festive launch of Vertical Atlas...

Financial Architectures is a research project to document and reflect on the intricate financial formulas, incentives, and protagonists behind the designs of present-day buildings, cities, and landscapes. Fina...

Monument is a collaboration with e-flux Architecture to investigate how monuments have – once again – come to play a pivotal role in mobilising and rearticulating struggles for recognition. The ser...

Terraforming Earth is a series of lectures and design labs about twenty-first-century society. The premise is that political and economic systems should be conceived and designed in a radically different way in order to create an environment for a society of plants, animals, people and machines to sustain itself and to thrive. An important complicating factor in this scenario is that the feasibility of new systems is always first tested in the ‘market’, while the way the ‘market’ is organised is responsible for the succession of crises currently affecting planet Earth.

And Other Spectres is a series of essays, exhibitions, public events that investigate agents that, being generally imperceptible or barely visible to the human eye, are able to permeate the sphere of...

Is a scientific ‘discovery’ not merely a question of learning to observe better? The presentation Matter consists of a series of installations that facilitate meetings between humans and ...

Starting in the Spring of 2019, exactly 100 years after the foundation of Bauhaus, Het Nieuwe Instituut transforms into Neuhaus, a temporary transdisciplinary academy for more-than-human knowledge.

Memory and Oblivion is a long-term research project on ideology, memory and monuments. The project will look at different case studies around the world that epitomize the fight against the specter of fascism, and the demand of a renewed relation between remembering and forgetting.

International Call for Fellows 2019: Information and deadline

Architecture of Appropriation. Foto Johannes Schwartz The squatting movement has played a major role in the design of...

For the Record investigates how contemporary video culture operates as a public space for consumerism, activism and ...

Algorithmic Culture is a research programme at Het Nieuwe Instituut that critically investigates the nature and effects of the entanglement of culture with algorithmic processes. ...

Het Nieuwe Instituut is one of the consortium partners in Bridging Art, Design and Technology through Critical Making, a research project that focuses on the application of the concept of Critical Making b...