NADD Archive Day: Crafting the Archive
On 18 June, we dive into the intersection of craft and archival practice. How do making, remembering, and preserving shape one another? And what does it mean to archive something as lived, tactile, and inherited as craft?
From intergenerational knowledge to contemporary reinterpretations of craft practices, we explore questions of authorship, labour, and cultural memory — through interactive presentations, workshops, show‑and‑tells, and performances.
Join us as we ask:
Where does design end and craft begin? How is craft tied to cultural identity? And how do you archive a practice that is always in motion?
📅 18 June 2026
🕒 10:00 – 17:00
🍷 17:00 – drinks
🗣️ Language: English & Dutch
📍 Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
🎟️ Tickets & full programme: link in bio
Come think, make, and reflect together.
#NADD #Craft #Archives #design #digital #culture #symposium
Partner Tuesday!
Studio Immersief brings stories, culture, and heritage to life with immersive experiences that resonate.
Read more in link in bio!
#Immersive #heritage #archives #NADD
Partner Wednesday!
Tailors & Wearers recently joined. The small team, along with a dedicated group of culture bearers are doing great work in Rotterdam and beyond to help preserve Afro-Surinamese design heritage. We’re happy to welcome them to the network!
Read more in the link in bio!
#afrosurinamese #Heritage #Archives #NADD
Partner Tuesday!
We welcomed Instituto Buena Bista (IBB) as part of NADD. This Curaçao-based art institute fosters talent and social engagement through inclusive education and public projects.
📸 Instituto Buena Bista (IBB)
Read more in our link in bio.
#newpartner #curaçao #NADD #archive #institutobuenabista
Partner Tuesday!
Archival Textures (@archival_textures ) is a publication series that reimagines archives through collaborative, poetic, and critical lenses. They joined the NADD network in September 2025.
Read more via link in bio!
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1. by Arianna Cavalensi
2. & 3 by Fabian Landewee
4. by Archival Textures
#Partner #publication #archives #poetic #NADD
Only two days left till Graphic Design Fair 2026 on March 22!
Meet our moderator
Esmée Dros is a Rotterdam-based designer working in cultural and museal contexts at the intersection of research, graphic and spatial design. Driven by curiosity and fun, she is always looking for ways to translate matter and stories into design. Expect her to bring her playful and inquisitive energy to the conversation.
Come by to see talks by Sandra Kassenaar, Studio de Ronners and Theetat Thunkijjanukij & Cengiz Mengüç and many more.
Admission to all presentations is free, Full = full.
Archive Doctors × NADD
Drop by the Archive Doctors for a one-on-one consultation on preserving your work. These experts from the Network Archives Design and Digital Culture (NADD) aim to make archiving accessible for designers and makers by offering tailored, approachable advice to help you kick-start or improve your own archive.
Mean Thangtrakhanpong will host a kids workshop where you will invent and create your very own unique mushroom species! What superpower does your mushroom have? Maybe it can glow in the dark, make people fly, help plants grow, or transform someone into an animal.
Workshops by
Ringailė Demšytė, Aliona Ciobanu Studio, 530 Type Club and a kids workshop by Mean Thangtrakhanpong.
Participants
NADD - archive doctors, Yoram Yutte, Natnapat Jubb Kullananant, Aliona Ciobanu Studio, Juna Horstmans, Black Childish, 530 Type Club, Ringailė Demšytė, Thomas Bunt, KETEL PRESS, Page not found, Aleksandar Todorović, Lieke Janke, Charles Villa, Doyeon Kim, Leonardo Landoni & Malin Dittmann, Rossy Liu, Mira Ying, Sophie Czich, letterspace.amsterdam, Frank d. van Beek, Amber Zara and Asha Victoria, Bobbie van Leeuwen, Đôi Đũa.
Portfolio sessions with
Maureen Mooren, Sandra Kassenaar, Koos Breen en Jeannette Slütter, Hamid Sallali, Jonathan Castro, en Jungmyung Lee.
With fewer institutions and less funding, graphic designers are taking matters into their own hands. ✊ Curious how you can do this too? Come to 'All Graphic: Get Organized!' and discover how graphic designers have always found ways to organize, collaborate and shape their field. So you can be aware of what comes next!
Join us on Wednesday 25 March at 20:00 and be part of the conversation. ✨️
📅 WED 25 MAR, 20:00
🎟️ Reserve your free ticket via link in bio!
Open Call – Contributions wanted for NADD’s annual Archive Day on 18 June!
This year’s theme is: Crafting the Archive
On this day we will explore how craftsmanship, archiving, remembrance, and resistance come together in new practices.
We’re looking for people to fill slots in the programme. It can be a show & tell, workshop, performance, collective making activity, talks, etc. Feel free to be creative! Read the full text via the link in our bio!
We’re particularly interested in contributions that activate the archive through practice, focusing on processes of making, sharing knowledge, and collective reflection.
Who can apply?
Designers, makers, archivists, artists, researchers, cultural workers, educators, collectives, and students working across craft, design, and digital culture. We offer an honorarium and small materials budget.
If you’re not crafty, but your friend is, forward this post to them!
Deadline to submit a proposal: 8 April, before midnight
The Archive Day is taking place at Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam
#Opencall #Design #Digitalculture #archive #craft
Partner Tuesday!
In September 2025 Tracé – Limburgs Samenlevingsarchief (@tracelimburg ) joined the NADD network as a new partner. With a rich archive containing of Limburg’s social life and local companies such as crystal, glass and earthenware factory De Sphinx in Maastricht, they support research, education, and public engagement.
This year Tracé is planning together with NADD to further research the well-known and popular Boerenbont tableware. Stay tuned about this research!
More about Tracé via the link in bio!
📸 Tracé – Limburgs Samenlevingsarchief
#Limburg #archives #boerenbont #partner #NADD
