Zoöp Nieuwe Instituut
Nieuwe Instituut has been a Zoöp since the spring of 2022. An organisation that operates as a Zoöp also includes non-human voices and interests in its decision-making and working methods. Through small and large interventions, the Nieuwe Instituut Zoöp wants to contribute to a liveable world in which humans have an equal relationship with animals, plants, microbes and other life forms.
The initiators of the Zoöp concept, together with designers, ecologists, philosophers, artists, entrepreneurs and lawyers, have searched for a way to improve the position of non-human life within human societies. They have developed a form of cooperation in which all life has a part to play. It’s no coincidence that the term Zoöp combines the works ζωή (zoë or ‘life’ in ancient Greek) and cooperation. It stands for an active partnership with all of life.