With Another Island, researcher and audiovisual artist Janilda Bartolomeu presents a film installation that depicts the dreams of the Cape Verdean diaspora.

The 1300 Degrees of Translucence installation in the Re-Centre reflects on the creative residency format through the lens of the Creative Residency Arita – a residency programme that pairs Dutch makers with local porcelain producers in Arita, Japan.

This Research Night explores how objects, buildings and rituals form part of diplomatic codes, and how we can understand these codes in all their complexity.

Join Saskia Boer of Outsiders Foraging for a hands-on identification session to celebrate the exhibition FUNGI: Anarchist Designers.

Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.

This workshop by Janilda Bartolomeu invites Cape Verdeans in Rotterdam to co-create a symbolic time capsule.

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.

Originally built for Albertus Sonneveld and his family, the white villa on the edge of the Museumpark began a new life as a museum house exactly a quarter century ago.

Call for proposals for NADD Archive Day 2026. Within the theme of Crafting the Archive, we will explore how craftsmanship, archiving, remembrance and resistance come together in new practices.

With the New Store, Nieuwe Instituut imagines a store where shopping helps the environment instead of harming it. After two New Store pop-up stores in Eindhoven and Milan, you can now step into New Store 3.0 in the foyer of the Nieuwe Instituut.

Future Studio Oostkop is a workspace at the Nieuwe Instituut open to anyone interested in contributing to the spatial future of the Netherlands through design research.

The Network Archives Design and Digital Culture (NADD) works together on developing sustainable solutions to preserve design and digital culture archives and make them accessible.

Countless archives and collections have been compiled and described from a limited perspective. Asterisk* broadens this perspective by adding stories, experiences and information. This enriches heritage, making it more vibrant, honest and accessible.