Studio Wild’s Forbidden Garden of Europe, at Spazio Punch in Giudecca, Venice, will cultivate a garden of ‘invasive alien plant species’. These plants represent the 35 species to be eradicated from European soil in line with the EU legislative act of 2016.

On 20 May 2021, the Dutch pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia will open, one year later than planned. As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, Het Nieuwe Instituut will not be able to safely invite visitors to the opening in Venice. This offers the opportunity to develop a hybrid opening that is more freely accessible, while still doing justice to the theme of the pavilion and the efforts of all those involved.

On 14 July 2020, the presentation takes place of the first results of Values for Survival, the public research programme accompanying Who is We? – the Dutch contribution to the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.

By 2024, every city in the Netherlands needs to have developed an environmental vision – the local translation of a new environmental law with fewer rules than before. Farid Tabarki leads a live discussion onlne on the future of the city, and the need to think about the values behind urban development in a fundamentally different way in response to the climate crisis.

Zoönomic Futures is an immersive training programme aimed at developing a practical ethics for a society that is no longer human-centric. Context for this training is formed by extrapolating the zoöp concept 40 years into the future.