Living Archives: a celebration of design and digital culture

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On 20 June, the Network for Archives of Design and Digital Culture invites you to explore the living archives of design and digital culture

<h3>Living Archives: a Celebration of Design and Digital Culture </h3>Join the <a href="https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/nadd" title="https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/nadd" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Network for Archives of Design and Digital Culture</a> on 20 June for a day-long symposium exploring 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 '<a href="https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/dutch-more-or-less" title="https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/dutch-more-or-less" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dutch, More or Less</a>', the new design exhibition at Nieuwe Instituut! Plus, closing off the day is the opening of a new installment of the <a href="https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/nadd/seeking-shelter" title="https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/nadd/seeking-shelter" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Archives at Risk: Seeking Shelter</a> 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.__ Free solidarity tickets are available for this event, please message us at nadd@nieuweinstituut.nl Read more about the Network for Archives of Design and Digital Culture <a href="https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/nadd" title="https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/nadd" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>. Image credit: Videostill 'Seeking Shelter: Christophe Coppens' by Luc Schraauwers

Workshop descriptions 🟡 Syrian Design Archive: Collaging History Join this cut-n-paste and collaging workshop where you can remix archival materials and learn about experimental typography and design from the Syrian diaspora. The Syrian Design Archive is a non-profit, community-sourced documentary project founded by Kinda Ghannoum; Hala al Afsaa and Sally Alassafen. The archive documents a range of printed and non-printed matter, including vintage street signs, movies, stamps, books, flyers and other ephemeral that are at threat of being destroyed. 🟡 Collecting Otherwise | Archival Care Riders How can an archive be cared for? How can the institution look after the donor, and ensure that their needs and wishes are met? Join members of the Collecting Otherwise Working Group to explore these questions in an active workshop that repositions the roles of creator, donor, archivist, and user by providing a method of care for the archive that can be practically applied by members of the institution and the surrounding community. 🟡 Palestine Sound Archive: listening as an embodied tool In this workshop, you will explore listening as an embodied tool through which we can unlock histories, memories and folklore and look at how material culture houses sound, stories and sensations. The workshop also explores the concept of the archive, what it means to us, who can access it, and what embodied responses it can bring up. This is inspired by Momin Swaitat’s own background as a Palestinian Bedouin artist who comes from a long line of musicians and oral storytellers, and his experience in establishing the first Palestinian-led record label, focused on reworking, reissuing and reexamining sounds from the Palestinian archive. 🟡 The Hmm: e-kondo your life Tidying guru Marie Kondo became world famous with her tips to rid people of unnecessary stuff in the home. What does the KonMari digital method look like? Every question we ask chatGPT or every website we google has an impact on the environment. Because we store everything in the cloud, and we can expand our cloud storage with a click, we don't realize the actual weight of our data. In the e-Kondō workshop, you'll join Lilian Stolk to learn how to get started with deletion and make a mascot to remember a precious deleted file. 🟡 Teresa Fernandez-Pello/-1 : What do your last 5 Google searches say about you? Travel to the digital culture lab -1 and join current resident Teresa Fernandez-Pello for a unique exploration of your personal data. In this workshop, you’ll combine the ancient tool of astrology with very modern search and filter tools and Google autocomplete predictions. You’ll discover how your searches can reveal hidden patterns and motivations and uncover surprising connections between your personality and online behavior.

Agenda

With the advent of Linked Open Data and collection platforms, there are new possibilities for design and digital culture heritage to be connected from disparate locations. However, the concept of network archives also refers to the social networks of people in different locations who create and care for archives. In this plenary session we will hear how Archival Consciousness creates innovative platforms that bring webs of archival material, makers, and places together; how Archival Horizons is tracing diasporic connections through the Caribbean; and how the collective Time.iscapital is 3D mapping autonomous creative collectives whose work falls outside the realm of institutional archives.

Plenary Session: Networked Archives/Archives of Networks   

 Join one of three roundtable discussions where designers, researchers and archivists will be exploring new ways to archive the fleeting and intangible parts of our design and digital culture heritage.  With Robert van Rixtel (Dutch Graphic Roots), Maud Seuntjens (Sonic Acts), Carlien Macnack, Nico Thöne (EKWC); Marije Grund (Dutch Design Foundation), Patrick Hutchinson (resident, -1), Mohamad Deeb, Sara Culmann, Carolina Pinto (Institut for Network Cultures)  and more. 

Parallel Roundtables

Designers and artists breathe new life into archival material, making it tangible and giving new publics access to unknown histories. In this roundtable, designers, makers and researchers explore the centrality of archival material in their own work. Featuring Mohamad Deeb; Sara Culmann; Riangelo Christie and Aimée Zito Lema. Moderated by Lani Hanna (Interference Archive) and Alexandra Barancova.

Roundtable 1. Archiving Practice

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people in the Netherlands attend festivals, exhibitions and other events celebrating design and digital culture. These packed rooms of people meeting, making, listening and creating are where some of our most cutting-edge design and digital culture is fomented. But these events are, in their nature, fleeting. How do we preserve a record of these important happenings? 
Featuring Marije Grund (DDF); Maud Seuntjens (Sonic Acts); Patrick Hutchinson (-1) and Carolina Valente Pinto (Institute for Network Cultures). Moderated by Margarita Osipian (The Hmm)

Roundtable 2. Archiving Presence

What kinds of stories can be found in archives of design and digital culture? How do these archives provide a source of inspiration for artists, designers and historians to create new interpretations of the past? And how can stories – in the form of oral histories – form rich archives of knowledge and experience? 
Featuring Robert van Rixtel (Dutch Graphic Roots); Nico Thöne (EKWC); Carlien Macnack and Jenna Vervoorn. Moderated by Tijn van de Wijdeven and Eline de Graaf.

Roundtable 3. Archiving Perspectives

Take part in a live podcast recording with NADD guest curator Gyonne Zafira, Onias Landveld (Productiehuis Wosu) and Andrea Scholz about institutional narratives and roles in the challenging processes of restitution and building relationships between communities and institutions.What is the role of ‘the community’ in restitution of colonially coded artifacts and narratives? What do we need in this relationship between ‘the community’ and ‘the institution’ that is a legacy of our colonial past and in our current neo-/or postcolonial society?

Nos bida, Nos storia - (counter) narratives and inviting (back) our stories

The afternoon is dedicated to listening and making. Participate in hands-on workshops with innovative archivists, digital makers and researchers. Experiment with archival collage-making with the Syrian Design Archives; learn new tools for ethical archiving with Collecting Otherwise; attend a listening session and workshop on sonic archiving with the Palestine Sound Archive or learn how to clean up and creatively repurpose your digital memory with The Hmmm and Teresa Fernandez-Pello. Each workshop has space for only 15 participants, so make sure to reserve your spot in time, find the detailed description of the workshops below.

Workshops Sessions

Following the Nos Bida, Nos storia discussion you can join the opening of the fragmented exhibition ‘How Do We Remember?’ where Serana Angelista will share the discuss their new work ‘The Promised Land’ in conversation with curator Gyonne Zafira, delving deep into familial archives and the importance of memories and oral histories in different contexts through the eyes of different artists. You will also get a sneak peak of the works that will open on the 5th of July at the Archivo Nacional Aruba. 

 Opening ‘How Do We Remember?'

Round up and reflection in the auditorium with a special, themed edition of De Gids featuring original essays, poetry and visual essays on the topic of design and digital culture archives. 

Launch of De Gids

Festive borrel and end day programme  

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