After Summer School, 23 – 26 September 2026, Rotterdam

After Summer School returns! From 23 to 26 September, Rotterdam transforms into a classroom where a wide variety of makers, researchers and other knowledge producers share their ways of working. By looking, listening, archiving, collaborating, activating, researching, designing and walking differently, you get to work with the urban knowledge and expertise that can change the city. During the After Summer School 2026 a wide range of public classes will take place throughout the city, presenting Rotterdam as a hub for knowledge that deserves to be recognised and included in the city development. This year’s After Summer School especially explores ways of learning that foster peace through empathy, curiosity, imagination, listening, resistance, and resilience. This year's contributors include (A)Wake, Afrikaanderwijk Coöperatie, Buitenplaats Brienenoord, Colette Aliman, Di Fang, Independent School for the City, Loom, Nieuwe Instituut, OMI, Rosi Braidotti, Stadspark West, Varia and Verhalenhuis Belvédère. New this year are city classes by Convivium, Janilda Bartolomeu, Karin Christof, Pauluskerk and We Worknot x COOPIA. The New Academy After Summer School is part of The New Academy, 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, technological and ecological challenges together. It is centred around knowledge that is city-based, minoritarian, more-than-human, and embodied. As one of its activities, The New Academy develops a Curriculum for Change: a series of courses, talks, workshops and other activities that show and teach a plural, inclusive and interdisciplinary (design) approach to the city.