Het Nieuwe Instituut

Through its annual Call for Fellows, Het Nieuwe Instituut invited applicants to submit a research proposal for a Fellowship centered around its theme 'Testing Grounds'. The jury awarded two Research Fellowships and one Research Stipend to three projects, each of which demonstrate sensitivity and urgency, fostering site-specific approaches that can be extended into larger contexts, forming sites for healing and solidarity. The selected Research Fellows are Eva Posas and Russel Hlongwane, and a Research Stipend goes to Daniel Frota de Abreu.

On 4 November 2021, the 8th edition of Ardeth magazine was launched at Politecnico de Milano. The launch of the magazine, guest curated by Het Nieuwe Instituut on the theme, Burn-Out: On Planetary Exhaustion and Alternative Public Infrastructures, included a conversation with Marina Otero Verzier, Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut. 

Through its annual Call for Fellows, Het Nieuwe Instituut invited applicants to submit a research proposal for a Fellowship from October 2021 to March 2022. The jury awarded two Research Fellowships and one Research Stipend to three projects, each of which demonstrate timeliness and ambition, and fostering collective forms of research and networks of solidarity. The selected Research Fellows are MELT and The School of Mutants, and a Research Stipend goes to Robin Hartanto Honggare.

The 2021 iteration of the Open Call Het Nieuwe Instituut offers two research fellowship positions for six months, from October 2021 to March 2022. Following the calls of recent years on the body’s burn-out (2018), planetary exhaustion (2019), and ‘regeneration’ through new institutional practices (2020), the 2021 iteration of the Open Call for Fellows doesn’t propose a theme to which applicants have to respond. Instead, it offers a channel through which to amplify the applicant’s own issues of concern. With the 2021 Open Call, Het Nieuwe Instituut turns the gaze outwards, to accommodate something that we don’t yet know.

Exploring post-anthropocentric thinking, More-than-Human is a new collaborative and multidisciplinary publication from Het Nieuwe Instituut, Office for Political Innovation, General Ecology at the Serpentine Galleries, and Manifesta Foundation.

Through its 2020 Call for Fellows, Het Nieuwe Instituut invited collectives to work in residence from October 2020 to March 2021. The jury awarded Research Fellowships to two projects, O grupo inteiro with Drought, Nurturing, Orós, Caatinga, Sertão; and Resolve Collective with Following Infrastructions. 

For this iteration, the Open Call for Fellows focuses on the theme of Regeneration: New Institutional Practices. Following recent calls on the body’s burn-out (2018) and planetary exhaustion (2019), the 2020 programme invites collectives to take current conditions of burn-out and exhaustion as a point of departure to generate forms of collective organization and action.

The Gossips lecture series aims to bring women together, to re-generate and re-perform the original concept of ‘the gossip’, which originally meant a female companion, as a support structure for women’s ideas, thinking processes and exchanges.

On March 18, Het Nieuwe Instituut launches its yearly Open Call for three research fellows to work in residence from September 2019 to February 2020. With the title: BURN-OUT. Exhaustion on a planetary scale, this year’s theme addresses exploitative, multi scalar structures, and aims to instigate other forms of coexistence, sensibility and care for larger, multispecies, collective bodies. Through its annual Call for Fellows, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Research Department acknowledges and gives visibility to research projects offering departures from established modes of thinking and practice. Applications are open from March 18 to April 22, 2019.

In the time of Covid-19, governments have asked citizens to protect themselves by radically reorganising their lives – from practising social distancing, to working remotely and caring for family and friends in domestic or virtual spaces. While these measures are put in place to prevent or slow down infection, a work ethos oriented towards productivity has, in many cases, intensified. In other words, forms of burn-out and the ongoing exploitation of bodies become even more pressing. Het Nieuwe Instituut was invited by Ardeth magazine to become theme editor for their latest call for papers. BURN-OUT. On planetary exhaustion and alternative public infrastructures invites architects, designers, historians, researchers and theorists to take the current conditions of burn-out and exhaustion as a point of departure for reimagining forms of organisation, governance and action.