COMPOS(T)ING: Notions of Indigeneity

Join us for three workshops and a keynote devoted to regenerative design and its fresh approach to design practices.
About this Event

Join us for an event devoted to regenerative design and its fresh approach to design practices. Curated by Akash Kumar in collaboration with the Nieuwe Instituut, the programme features three workshops and a keynote talk. Find out how replacing extractive practices with attention to the qualities of a place, locally sourced materials and reciprocal relationships can influence design innovation and contemporary life.

Choose one of the workshops

• Workshop 1: The Thinking Body
  Led by regenerative designer Akash Kumar, this workshop will explore embodied knowledge through spinning and weaving. Participants will investigate how the body thinks when making things, the knowledge that emerges through practice, and how listening to materials, places and people influences what and why we create.
  
• Workshop 2: Valuing Living Land
  With Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, researcher and initiator of the Zoöp movement, participants will learn to value land and its human and non-human inhabitants. Through a game-like process, we will explore economic relationships as part of embedding ecological and social systems. We will ask how living land can generate a surplus to support more-than-human communities without being exhausted.
  
• Workshop 3: Artefact Constellation
  Led by anti-disciplinary artist Anne de Andrade, this session invites participants to see objects as active entities within networks. By tuning into the ‘voices’ of materials, we will consider how their artistic or design practice might support life more effectively.

Join the keynote and panel conversation

• COMPOS(T)ING Keynote: Notions of Indigeneity
  In the evening, Akash Kumar will discuss notions of indigeneity. The panel will explore what we mean by Indigenous in relation to the land, creative practices, communities, ancestral knowledge and design. The discussion will emphasise the importance of these ideas, demonstrating how they can be extended into design through material understanding and making, and how working with materials can become a form of listening and relating. The keynote challenges dominant production modes and opens up more reciprocal ways of making. It invites participants to reconsider how indigeneity can inform not only what we design, but also how and with whom we make it.

Programme Overview

• 15:00-15:30 Doors open and check-in Workshops
• 15:30-17:45 Workshops
• 17:45-19:30 Break*
• 19.00-19.30 Doors open and check-in Keynote and panel
• 19.30-21.00 Keynote and panel**

*During this time you are free plan your own activities. Visit the New Store, have a drink at the Nieuwe Café, join a free Thursday Night Detour, or visit the exhibitions for free during the Free Thursday Night at Nieuwe Instituut. You are also free to leave the museum and return for the keynote and panel later that evening.

**You will need an additional ticket to join the keynote and panel conversation.

Ticket Information

Please note that tickets for the workshop and keynote need to be purchased separately.

Are you a student, teacher, Member of Nieuwe Instituut? You can use one of the following promocodes during check-out to receive a discount that we offer for all paid events:

• Students: use promocode STUDENT to get your ticket for €7,50. Please don't forget to bring your student card with you to the event.
• Teachers and faculty members: use promocode FACULTY to get your ticket for €7,50. Please don't forget to bring your faculty member card with you to the event.
• Members of Nieuwe Instituut: use promocode MEMBER to receive 50% discount on your ticket. Please don't forget to bring your Member card with you.
• A limited amount of free solidarity tickets are available for anyone who wants to attend but can't afford the admission price right now. Use the promocode SOLIDARITY to obtain your ticket