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.

An interview conversation with Resolve Collective, 2020/2021 Research fellows of Het Nieuwe Instituut's Research Department, about their research into new institutional practices and ways of working as a collective. 

An interview conversation and Google Doc Q&A with O grupo inteiro, 2020/2021 Research fellows of Het Nieuwe Instituut's Research Department, about their research into new institutional practices and ways of working as a collective. 

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.

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. 

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.

An overview of all research fellows until 2019