Event | External location - | 11/05/12 9:30 - 17:00

At the international conference 'What Design Can Do' Archis/Volume and NAI hosted the break-out session 'What design can do for… contact!'. By 'hacking' the Apple Store for a 'silent' conference on the merits and pitfalls of social media, participants were able to experience (the limits of) connectivity. Read the report by Rory Hyde. > Read more...

Lecture/Debat/symposium | NAi Rotterdam - Auditorium | 03/05/12 20:00 - 22:00

In this 'Urbanists talk', the acclaimed architect and researcher Jeffrey Inaba lectured on the convergence by technology corporations and international policy organizations on the city - and how they are attempting to make the 'City 2.0'. > Read more...

Lecture/Debat/symposium | 22/03/12 20:00 - 22:00

Watch the interview with Bjarke Ingels. > Read more...

Lecture/Debat/symposium | NAi Rotterdam - Auditorium | 12/04/12 20:00 - 22:00

Thursday April 12 2012, the auditorium of the NAI was for once the domain of Petra Blaisse. The curtains of the lecture hall had been replaced by some samples, designed by Petra Blaisse. Against this background Blaisse gave a lecture on recent projects of her design practice Inside Outside. Watch the video registration online. > Read more...

Lecture/Debat/symposium | External location - | 22/03/12 20:00 - 22:00

The Danish architect Bjarke Ingels gave a lecture on the notion of ‘hedonistic sustainability’ and how this is translated in his design practice. He presented recent projects that show that sustainability does not have to be a burden, but can increase the quality of life. Watch the video of his lecture. > Read more...

Lecture/Debat/symposium | 01/03/12 20:00 - 22:00

How can architecture respond to today’s pressing social concerns? In this Architects Talk two Scandinavian offices showed how notions like time, social cohesion and energy are addressed within their design practices. Featuring the Oslo-based Helen & Hard and the Stockholm based Tham & Videgård. > Read more...

Lecture/Debat/symposium | NAi Rotterdam - Auditorium | 22/02/12 19:30 - 22:00

WIJkonomie Tarwewijk is a project that stimulates self-sufficiency and creative resourcefulness in order to boost the vitality and productivity within this Rotterdam quarter, by encouraging meetings and the introduction of new economic activities. Various speakers will enter into a discussion about ways in which local entrepreneurship can strengthen the social cohesion in such urban districts. > Read more...

Movie/theater/music | NAi Rotterdam - Auditorium | 26/01/12-29/01/12

During the 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam, the NAI showed the film Babeldom by the English filmmaker Paul Bush. Babeldom is a science fiction documentary in which a futuristic city is assembled using found footage on architecture, science and technology. > Read more...

Lecture/Debat/symposium | NAi Rotterdam - Auditorium | 09/02/12 20:00 - 22:00

Global exchange of energy, waste and materials and the production of renewables. How can our world be made sustainable? With Reinier de Graaf and Michael Doust. The political and economic sense and nonsense of these propositions were discussed, moderated by Tracy Metz. > Read more...

Lecture/Debat/symposium | 15/12/11 20:00 - 22:00

On 15 December Elena Cabrera Vacas, the fifth Bakema Fellow, presented the results of her year-long study of the very different results of the feverish urban growth along the Spanish coast, under the influence of mass tourism and large-scale corruption. Afterwards, Cabrera Vacas discussed her project with Bakema board member and architect Oliver Thill. He then announced the sixth Jaap Bakema Fellow. > Read more...