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Collecting Otherwise

Gathering 1: Seen/Unseen

During the first public gathering of Collecting Otherwise, the audience is invited to join the conversation. Which alternative methodologies can enrich the archives of the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning? And how do we collect otherwise, including other points of view? The research team, whose members form part of Disclosing Architecture, will be introduced, followed by discussions on case studies presented during the event.

Image* from the Stichting Goed Wonen Archive, Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, SGWO-f19-48a.© Arjé Plas/MAI.
Image* from the Stichting Goed Wonen Archive, Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, SGWO-f19-48a.© Arjé Plas/MAI.

Seen/Unseen

In Seen/Unseen, the first manifestation of Collecting Otherwise, both theoretical and practice-oriented research are aimed at developing intersectional awareness within the National Collection and a conscious policy for future acquisitions. By viewing the existing archives from a decidedly feminist, queer and decolonial perspective, Collecting Otherwise sheds light on those viewpoints that generally remain hidden in current architecture and archival practice. When selecting case studies, the team behind Collecting Otherwise prefers to choose archive material from initiatives that represent such "minority perspectives". They focus on objects, mechanisms and processes that are inseparable from intersectional, international and intergenerational conceptions of a feminist and queer built environment. This approach - which is often still absent or underexposed in the National Collection and has not been given a place in the historiography of architecture and urban design - is thus written into the history and national archive of the discipline.

* Image from the Stichting Goed Wonen Archive, an organisation which promoted the Modern interior through model houses, lectures, and their publication ‘Goed Wonen’ (1948-70). They were one of the main channels of the modernist Nieuwe Bouwen movement, that focused their ideology of hygiene, functionality, and innovation - against the ‘cramped’ interiors of the previous decades. At the same time Stichting Goed Wonen was a platform through which female designers could develop their network and practice (interior) architecture on more equal foot to their male counterparts.

date
11/02/2021
time
20:00 – 21:30
language
English
 
location

Online event

entrance

Free

Collecting Otherwise

Collecting Otherwise is a research project that helps to ask fundamental questions about the value and meaning of the documents contained in the National Collection of Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning managed by Het Nieuwe Instituut. This research project proposes reading the collection and the practice of collecting and archiving from a perspective in line with current social changes. It focuses on developing alternative methodologies for the acquisition, classification and distribution of heritage.

Collecting Otherwise is part of the Rethinking the Collection initiative, initiated after the decision by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) to invest in the visibility, restoration and digitisation of the National Collection and falls under the umbrella of Disclosing Architecture. This project contributes to the ambition of Het Nieuwe Instituut to strengthen its position as a heritage institution, and to the larger goal of taking a critical look at the methods, tools, research themes, languages and alliances that the institute has previously developed.

Members of the research project

Clara Balaguer, Alfred Marasigan, Czar Kristoff, Isola Tong, Michael Karabinos, Hannah Dawn Henderson, Harriet Rose Morley, Hetty Berens, Carolina Pinto Valente, Delany Boutkan, Julius Thissen and Setareh Noorani.

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Gathering 2: [De-]Constructing Care in The Archive

Collecting Otherwise
Archive visits, Collecting Otherwise. Left: at Het Nieuwe Instituut, BOOQfa_11, BOOQfa_12 - Keurige Leugens van het Officieel Fatsoen, BOOQfa_13, BOOQfa_14. Right: at Lidewij Tummers, Office Tussen-Ruimte and Vrouwen, Bouwen en Wonen archives.

Gathering 2: [De-]Constructing Care in The Archive

Collecting Otherwise

During the second public gathering of Collecting Otherwise, the audience is invited to join the conversation. Which alternative methodologies can enrich the archives of the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning? And how do we collect otherwise, including other points of view? Working group members, who are part of Disclosing Architecture, researchers Renan Laru-an and Yasmin Tri Aryani, curator Staci Bu Shea and artist Hannah Dawn Henderson will join the discussions on case studies presented during the event.

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Gathering 3: Accessing the [Trans]Institutional Archive

Collecting Otherwise
Luzia Hartsuyker, architect, and the coordination group in “Inspiratie en een lange adem: het projekt burgerziekenhuis voor vrouwen, nu en straks”, 1988. Source: Archive [Women Building Living Housing] / Bureau Tussen-Ruimte. Donation by Lidewij Tummers, Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Gathering 3: Accessing the (Trans)Institutional Archive

Collecting Otherwise

During the third public gathering of Collecting Otherwise, the audience is invited to join the conversation. Which alternative methodologies can enrich the archives of the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning? And how do we collect otherwise, including other points of view? Invited speakers Jos Boys (Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative/UCL) Mitchell Esajas, Nychenda Fecunda (The Black Archives), Aska Welford, Rika Theo (UvA) and Working Group members Micheal Karabinos and Harriet Rose Morley, will join the discussions on case studies presented during the event.

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