Thursday Night Detour with Pia

Join us for a free Thursday Night Detour on 11 August at 7pm. Detour Guide and professional observer Pia Canales shows us around Designing the Social. Or in this case, designing the anti-social. Come along and discover the exhibition from her point of view and explore the power of the angry mountain.

Pia Canales. Photo: Marwan Magroun.

Pia Canales

Pia Canales is a professional observer of everyday things. Thanks to her hyper-curious attitude, she knows a little about a lot of things, and thanks to her background in art, she knows too much about a few more things. Her favourite things are peanut butter, inter-dimensional aliens, and amateurs.

“I walk in circles, I only walk in circles, I walk in circles for hours, I keep walking in circles, every circle is different.”

Designing the Social: 100 Years of Idiosyncratic Living in the Netherlands

How has design contributed to new forms of living, working, and communicating in society? This question is central to the exhibition Designing the Social. Designers, researchers, and curators have selected and reinterpreted pieces from heritage collections and archives to tell us a range of stories about a century of social design.

Feminist Design Strategies (design: Tabea Nixdorff) in Designing the Social at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. Photo: Johannes Schwartz.

date

11/08/2022

time

19:00 – 20:00

language

English, Dutch

also this evening

The museum is free to visit from 5-9pm

location

Het Nieuwe Instituut
Museumpark 25
3015 CB Rotterdam

entrance

The Thursday Night Detour is free to join. Please report to the front desk at 6.55pm and inform a staff member that you would like to take part. Up to 15 visitors can join this Thursday Night Detour.