In collaboration with partners abroad, the NAI organises debates on location under the title Debates on Tour. Dutch expert speakers are invited to join in debate with their local colleagues. The NAI aims to promote the exchange of knowledge on a global scale by raising topical themes in architecture and urban planning for discussion at diverse locations around the world.
Local partners
Together with our local partners we engage local professional communities in thought- and action-provoking events. Local partners use their network and know-how to propose appropriate local discussion partners and venues and attract a suitable audience. Precise topics, formats and speakers are selected in collaboration. The NAI invites Dutch designers, architects and other experts for the debate. Additional programme, like excursions and workshops, can be added to deepen and enliven the debate.
New: Activist events
A new variant of the Debates on Tour are the more spontaneous and activist flash events. Moving beyond promoting and discussing the public role of architecture, these debates are intended to inspire action. Public space is their natural habitat. The ideal outcome might be a kind of ‘bid book’ or proposal, collaboratively produced by local and international participants, to be offered to the city.
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Keep an eye out for updates on Facebook and Twitter. Especially for the flash events, which might be announced on the spot!
Interested?
Debates on Tour can be organised at your venue. If you are interested, please contact Chris Luth, Curator of International Projects, 010-4401224 or email.
The Debates on Tour are financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
On 1 September 2010 the NAI organized a Debate on Tour in Marxloh, a ‘problem neighbourhood’ in Duisburg, Germany. Dutch and German speakers discussed how residents can improve their neighborhood. Co-organisers were Buro Venhuizen, Legenda Gesellschaft and Erfgoed Nederland.
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Casablanca is a showcase of the interplay between planned and unplanned urban development and construction and the varied architecture that results from this. What can architects learn from these developments? In collaboration with the African Perspectives Conference and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Morocco, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) organised two Debates on Tour in Casablanca on 4 and 5 November 2011.
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2010
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NAI Debates on Tour presents a debate in Prishtina on February 25, on civilian participation in the planning of urban public space and new planning tools.
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Lecture/Debat/symposium
17
february
2011
20:00
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What is the role of the masterplan in Tehran’s development? Is the tardiness in its implementation a failing or a blessing? Administrative incompetence or an act of resistance? Might support for it be increased by involving Tehran’s inhabitants in the restructuring of their city? The influential Iranian urban planner Farrokh Zonouzi and architectural historian Wouter Vanstiphout shedded light on this paradoxical metropolis.
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On 25 February 2010 the NAI and Archis Interventions organised a Debate on Tour in Prishtina, Kosovo. The subject of the debate between Dutch and Kosovan experts was civilian participation in the planning of urban public space and new planning tools. Ole Bouman gives a reflection on the theme and the local situation in Prishtina.
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