Door Team Braidotti

Dutch writer and philosopher Stine JENSEN refers to this edited volume in her latest column in leading newspaper NRC.

Life guide in two minutes: Dutch philosopher Stine Jensen serves up new insights daily using one quote. From Erasmus to Dolly Parton and from Hannah Arendt to Jochem Myjer.

 

In this podcast episode, ‘Vrienden met de dood’, Stine recounts the life wisdom from Italian philosopher Rosi Braidotti: ‘Befriending the impersonal necessity of death is a way of placing yourself in life as a transient, lightly wounded visitor.’

Join the After Summer School 2024!

During the After Summer School (30/09 – 4/10 2024) over 20 public classes will take place throughout the Rotterdam, presenting the city as a hub for knowledge that deserves to be recognized and included in the city development. How can we change the city by looking, listening, writing, archiving, collaborating, activating, researching, designing, and walking differently?

 

During the After Summer School, the New Academy works with Afrikaanderwijk Coöperatie, Changerism, Concrete Blossom, Huis van de Toekomst / Transition-Scapes, Independent School for the City, Internationale Architectuur Biënnale Rotterdam, Niels Spaans, Nieuwe Instituut, OMI | Stories about Architecture, Santiago del Hierro, Shay Kreuger, Stadspark West, Stichting Wijkcollectie, Stine Jensen / EsPhil, Ursula Biemann, Varia, Verhalenhuis Belvédère, Vers Beton, WaterSchool / Stichting het Park, and Zoöp.

The New Academy is an initiative of the Nieuwe Instituut in collaboration with philosopher Rosi Braidotti that reimagines Rotterdam as a knowledge city. It aims to create a local platform for new ways of learning to address complex social and ecological challenges together. It is centered around knowledge that is city-based, minoritarian, more-than-human, and embodied.

IABR 2024: Nature of Hope
Nieuwe Instituut is the main venue for the 11th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. What are the building blocks of an emphatically hopeful way of (architectural) thinking, designing and building that can serve all life on the planet?

Read “The Nomadic Humanities” by Catharine R. Stimpson in the Los Angelos Review of Books

July 12, 2016.