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The fellowship programme hosts international practitioners and researchers in the fields of architecture, design, and digital culture. Proposals are invited through an international open call and selected by an international jury of renowned curators, academics, and leaders in the creative fields. Fellows are supported with mentorship, archival resources, working spaces, and a stipend, and their research can evolve into public events, exhibitions, films, or publications in collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut.

2020

Graphic design by Jannete Mark.

Regeneration: Open Call for New Institutions

For this iteration, the Open Call for Fellows focuses on the theme ‘Regeneration. New Institutional Practices.’ Following last years’ 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.

Following Infrastructions by Resolve Collective

Jury Report 2020

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.

Other Institutional Practices

Regeneration. New Institutional Practices finds inspiration in existing initiatives. A non-comprehensive, idiosyncratic and always incomplete list of recent initiatives that redefine the role of cultural institutions through collective practice will be updated here.

2019

Offerings seeking blessings, wealth and good fortune, Aje Shrine, Ile Ife. Photo by Dele Adeyemo.

Jury Report 2019

Through its annual Call for Fellows, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Research Department acknowledges and gives visibility to projects engaged in developing other modes of thinking, knowledge production, and research practice. For this iteration of the Call for Fellows, the Research Department has selected the theme of BURN-OUT. Exhaustion on a Planetary Scale. The jury recognised and awarded a Research Fellowship to three projects.

Eigenlicht (2012), 35mm film with no sound, 18 minutes, Melvin Moti.

BURN-OUT. Exhaustion on a Planetary Scale

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.

Critical Insights. Image by Claudia Rot.

Fellows Past and Current

An overview of all research fellows until 2019

2018

ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) video (still): Lisa Gliederpuppe

Call for Fellows 2018

Het Nieuwe Instituut announces an open call for three research fellows to work in residence from September 2018 to February 2019, with the title: BURN-OUT

Boats on the Shore. From: Silences, Oppressions and Omissions by Natalie Dixon. Photo: Maria Julia Serra

Call for Fellows Jury Report 2018

Through its annual Call for Fellows, Het Nieuwe Instituut invited practitioners and researchers to work in residence from September 2018 to February 2019. The applications were evaluated on the basis of their engagement with the fellowship theme, depth of investigation, idiosyncrasy, connection to Het Nieuwe Instituut's mission, and potential for exchange between fellows and across disciplinary boundaries.

Ignazio Gardella, Casa Borsalino, Alessandria, 1952. From A Hat and a Bicycle. Welfare capitalism and the female working body by Elisa Giuliano

Application Report Call for Fellows 2018

This report looks to the 2018 set of applications submitted in response to Het Nieuwe Instituut’s yearly Call for Fellows, to understand the interests and urgencies in contemporary research, and Het Nieuwe Instituut’s network and position within that context. The Research Department is committed to continuously evaluating and adapting the way fellows are selected and supported.

2017

Call for Fellows 2017

Het Nieuwe Instituut announces an open call for three research fellows to work in residence from September 2017 to February 2018.

Christopher Lee

Jury Report 2017

Through an International Open Call for Research Fellows, Het Nieuwe Instituut invited practitioners and researchers in the fields of architecture, design, and digital culture to work in residence from September 2017 to February 2018. Applicants were asked to submit a research proposal with a unique perspective and specific methodology to address pressing contemporary questions in which architecture, design and digital culture play a part.

Application Report 2017

This report looks to the 2017 application set for Fellows, to understand the interests and urgencies in contemporary research, and Het Nieuwe Instituut’s network and position within that context.

2016

The Western Guinea region where the 2014 Ebola epidemic began. These infrared satellite images (taken in 1985, 2002, and 2016) show a clear depletion of forest cover (red) and an expansion of towns and villages (light grey). Data: Landsat/USGS.

Update Fellows September 2016

At the end of September, halfway through their Fellowship, the four fellows Andrea Bagnato, Simone Niquille, Noam Toran and Füsun Türetken were invited to give a brief update on their research-in-progress.

Call for Fellows 2016

Het Nieuwe Instituut announces an open call for three research fellows to work in residence from June to December 2016.

Deforestation in the area known as Guinea Forest Region, where the 2014 Ebola outbreak originated. Photo: Daniel G. Bausch (2014).

Jury report 2016

The jury’s decision and the report was published and presented on 28 April 2016.

Application Report 2016

On the spectrum of applications, current research interests, methodologies and backgrounds of applicants.

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