The World Around Summit 2022The World Around Summit 2022

Aric Chen, Het Nieuwe Instituut's General and Artistic Director, talks to some of his predecessors: the former directors of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), which was controversially merged with other institutions to form Het Nieuwe Instituut in 2013. With Adri Duivesteijn, Kristin Feireiss, Aaron Betsky and Ole Bouman, among others, they will reflect on the NAi, how architecture has changed since then, and how architecture institutions might change with it.

Honouring the prominent architecture critic Hans van Dijk (1948-2021), this programme will reflect on his life and times while exporing the role, relevance, and future of architectural criticism. Speakers include Rem Koolhaas, Arjen Oosterman, Tom Avermaete, James Taylor Foster, Jessica den Outer, WAI Think Tank (Nathalie Frankowski & Cruz Garcia), Anne Kockelkorn, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Anh-Linh Ngo, Jennifer Sigler, Afke Laarakker, Eeva Liukku, Veronique Patteeuw en Stephan Petermann. Moderated by Saskia van Stein en Christine de Baan.

Half way through the two-day event 'A Weekend of Architecture's Now, Near, Next', the magazines Pin-Up and Volume are organising an epic party for architects, non-architects and anyone who just wants to dance! DJs Shahmaran and DYKEHAUS from Rotterdam's KLAUW COLLECTIVE will play back-to-back in Het Nieuwe Instituut from 9 pm to midnight!

The New York-based architecture platform The World Around brings its celebrated line-up of the most compelling voices and ideas to Rotterdam. In collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut, In Focus: Precarity will present leading practitioners who use design as a healing practice at sites of precarity and crisis. Speakers include Elias & Yousef Anastas, Lina Ghotmeh, Manuel Herz, Anupama Kundoo, Boonserm Premthada, and Tavares Strachan, among others.