Living Archives: a celebration of design and digital culture

Our design and digital culture heritage is not only bound into the objects and drawings that designers leave behind. It’s also found in the repertoire of practices; stories and fleeting exchanges.

Join us on the 20th of June in celebrating these archives of design and digital culture. Explore innovative approaches to networked archives, exciting archival practices in roundtable discussions, live podcast recordings and hands-on workshops. Receive Archival First Aid from NADD’s archive coaches, leaf through selected publications in the Reading Room or join a detour through 'Dutch, More or Less', the new design exhibition at Nieuwe Instituut! Plus, closing off the day is the opening of a new installment of the Archives at Risk: Seeking Shelter exhibition, and a festive launch of the special archive-themed issue of De Gids which will highlight artistic, poetic and literary takes on design and digital culture archives.

Programme [see programme details in the Agenda]
9:30 – 10:00 Doors open
10:00 – 12:00 Plenary session: Network archives/Archives of Networks
12:00 – 13:00 Parallel Roundtable Sessions
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Live podcast + workshop sessions #1
15:30 – 17:00 Live podcast + workshop sessions # 2
18:00 – 19:30 Festive borrel and end day programme
All day programme
Archival First Aid
Better archiving starts with you! The NADD offers a toolkit for designers and makers to begin to archive their own work. During the day, you will be able to visit an archive coach for a speed consultation about your own archival practice, and learn about the free resources and trainings available.

NADD Reading Room
Take a break from the hustle and bustle and relax in the Research Centre where there’ll be a cosy corner filled with the publications that have been produced by NADD partners, research residents and other collaborators.
Detours
Follow a detour guide through a unique exploration of How Do We Remember and Archives at Risk: Seeking Shelter, two timely exhibitions commissioned by the NADD to give more visibility to design and digital culture archives.

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Free solidarity tickets are available for this event, please message us at [email protected]

Read more about the Network for Archives of Design and Digital Culture here.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Nieuwe Instituut, 25 Museumpark, Rotterdam, Netherlands