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18 April 2024
BONAS Anniverary Edition: Gijsbert Friedhoff
The BONAS Foundation is celebrating its 30th anniversary with the publication of a monograph on the architect and former...
➝ Read more28 March 2024
After the Future
Join us for the premiere of After the Future, a short film about the architect’s role and position in society. The scree...
➝ Read more1 February 2024 - 2 February 2024
Model Storage Open During Art Rotterdam
Visit the Open Model Storage of the Nieuwe Instituut, which will be open to the public during Art Rotterdam. Located on ...
➝ Read more8 December 2023
Exhibition Opening – Designing the Netherlands: 100 Years of Past & Present Futures
Nieuwe Instituut and the Dutch Board of Government Advisors (CRa) are pleased to invite you to the opening of Designing ...
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The Community Centre: Forms of Fellowship
In the third event in the Social Talks series, several guests, including artist Uta Eisenreich, artist Wendelien van Old...
➝ Read more10 March 2022
Building HERitage
In the light of International Women's Day 2022, this evening marked the National Collection's acquisition of women archi...
➝ Read more8 October 2020
Plastic! The Zip-a-Tone, Letraset, Mecanorma and more
Many post-war design drawings, pamphlets and posters in Het Nieuwe Instituut's archives incorporate rub-down lettering o...
➝ Read more26 September 2019
Queer Houses and Places
Are there places designed for or by queer communities? Or is it mainly a history of communities appropriating spaces? To...
➝ Read more12 September 2019
The Community Centre
In recent years a lot has happened in the area of community centres. After restrictive measures caused spending cuts a...
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Cornelis van Eesteren And The Current Professional Debate
Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Van Eesteren-Fluck & Van Lohuizen (EFL) foundation present Archive Explorations, an evening...
➝ Read more23 May 2019
"Backward Boys And Subnormal Girls"
How do you design a living space for someone who cannot indicate their specific housing needs or wishes? How can a safe ...
➝ Read more12 April 2018
Decolonial Gaze
Join our quest for a more varied perspective of the shared heritage from Indonesia, Suriname and the Netherlands, combin...
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