A selection of projects initiated by or in collaboration with the Nieuwe Instituut's Research team.
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Modernisms along the Indian Ocean
Modernisms along the Indian Ocean is a research project that traces how the Indian Ocean connects the intertwined region...
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Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2023: Workshop Regenerative Exchange
As part of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2023 (UAE), the Nieuwe Instituut will host a workshop that asks whether wa...
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In the depths of the Nieuwe Instituut, down industrial metal stairs and between humming servers, there is a new hub for ...
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Collecting Otherwise
Drawing on the architecture collection under the Nieuwe Instituut’s management, Collecting Otherwise explores the possib...
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Design Drafts
Design Drafts is a growing writing and publishing network dedicated to investigating and drafting what it means to write...
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Zoöp Nieuwe Instituut
Zoöp is the title of an organisational model for cooperation between human and nonhuman life that safeguards the interes...
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Automated Landscapes
Under the premise that automation disrupts not only labour markets, but the configuration, design and occupation of enti...
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Lithium
Conceived as a spa resort, the exhibition Lithium highlights the beneficial and destructive aspects of the eternal human...
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Vertical Atlas
Vertical Atlas is a new atlas to help us navigate the digital geopolitics of the world today. Vertical Atlas is a book, ...
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Financial Architectures
Financial Architectures is a research project to document and reflect on the intricate financial formulas, incentives, a...
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Monument
Monument is a collaboration with e-flux Architecture to investigate how monuments have – once again – come to play a piv...
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Terraforming Earth
Terraforming Earth is a series of lectures and design labs about twenty-first-century society. The premise is that polit...
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And Other Spectres
And Other Spectres is a series of essays, exhibitions, public events that investigate agents that, being generally imper...
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Matter
Is a scientific ‘discovery’ not merely a question of learning to observe better? The presentation Matter consists of a s...
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Memory and Oblivion
Memory and Oblivion is a long-term research project on ideology, memory and monuments. The project will look at differen...
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BURN-OUT. Exhaustion on a Planetary Scale
International Call for Fellows 2019: Information and deadline
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Architecture of Appropriation
Architecture of Appropriation. Foto Johannes Schwartz The squatting movement has played a major role in the d...
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For the Record
For the Record investigates how contemporary video culture operates as a public space for consumerism, activism and ... ...
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Algorithmic Culture
Algorithmic Culture is a research programme at Het Nieuwe Instituut that critically investigates the nature and effects ...
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Critical Making
Het Nieuwe Instituut is one of the consortium partners in Bridging Art, Design and Technology through Critical Making, a...
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