Living Archives: a celebration of design and digital culture

Living Archives: a Celebration of Design and Digital Culture

Join the Network for Archives of Design and Digital Culture on the 20th 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 '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 nadd@nieuweinstituut.nl

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