Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Network Archives Design and Digital Culture invites applications for a Research Residency taking place over the three-month period September-November 2022.
The Network Archives Design and Digital Culture aims for a sustainable and accessible approach to archiving design and digital culture heritage in the Dutch context. In practice, these fields lack systematic archiving efforts. Knowledge and expertise in these domains, as well as the archival material itself, is scattered. Set up as a partnership, the Network Archives Design and Digital Culture adopts a decentralised approach to tackling this issue.
This Research Residency programme invites researchers, theorists, artists, designers, developers, archivists and others with an affinity for the field(s) to critically examine the potential of networked infrastructures for archival practices in design and digital culture. What might we learn by archiving these domains through decentralised structures? What tensions might such approaches uncover? And what challenges might they pose?
Departing from these questions, this residency asks applicants to view ‘the archive’ as a part of a decentralised system and reflect on ways in which it might be approached and used as a result.
The Network Archives Design and Digital Culture encourages applications from individuals or collectives interested in archival research. Through their proposed project, applicants are invited to explore connections between different design and digital culture archives and the material kept in them.
Two residency positions will be awarded, with a stipend of 5000 euros each.
