In 2019 the Nieuw Instituut in Rotterdam, the merger of the old Dutch architecture institute, Virtual Platform, and the Premsela instituut for design, started a project around the preservation of projects, works and products created at the intersection of digital culture and design. It started with a round of conversations with adviser groups in which I took part.
From the project website: “The Network Archives Design and Digital Culture (NADD) is working toward an accessible archive for design and digital culture that collects the knowledge and strengths of museum and heritage organisations, educational, cultural and research institutions, designers, governments and other partners. The network lays a solid foundation for sharing insight and experience and for the joint development of new knowledge. This network is based on the unifying capacity of its individual partners and the specialist knowledge of multiple parties. It focuses on making the existing public activities and programming of all network partners visible and stronger, and, where necessary, contributes to the supplementation or development of new programmes.”
The project still is under development.
