Events
The Independent School for the City organizes various public events, addressing topics that respond to current relevant issues in urbanisation, and offers a platform to other organisation dealing with the city. The events are accessible to all 'urban' professionals in Rotterdam and beyond.
Upcoming Events
SCHOOL'S OUT! #31 WITH Lisa Doeland
Friday 24 February 2023. Doors open at 18:00. Events starts at 19:00. Tickets available for 5 euro. Get them here
In February, our guest speaker for School’s Out! will be Lisa Doeland. She is a philosopher and the author of a.o. Apocalypsofie. Her interests lie in ontology and waste, hauntology, dark ecology, the uncanny, capitalism and desire and apocalyptic thought. Lisa Doeland will introduce us to her view on the Anthropocene. She looks at it with a general feeling of pessimism, as a good antidote to the unfounded belief in technological solutions, so common in the architectural world and beyond.
SCHOOL'S OUT! #32 WITH Todd Reisz
School's Out! #33 with Maria Roszkowska
School's Out! #34 TBC
Todd Reisz is an architect and writer and lives in Amsterdam. His work examines the global practice of architecture, specifically how the architect circulates technologies and cultural narratives. Todd wants to urge us to write urban histories about cities that don’t yet exist, because now might be already too late.
Friday 31 March 2023. Doors open at 18:00. Events starts at 19:00. Tickets available for 5 euro. Get them here
Maria Roszkowska is an artist, designer and initiator of the DISNOVATION.ORG working group with Nicolas Maigret. They work at the interface between contemporary art, research and hacking, and compose tailor-made teams for each investigation together with academics, activists, engineers and designers. More specifically their recent artistic provocations seek to empower post-growth imaginaries and practices while challenging dominant techno-solutionist ideologies.
Friday 28 April 2023. Doors open at 18:00. Events starts at 19:00. Tickets available for 5 euro. Get them here
Friday 26 May 2023. Doors open at 18:00. Events starts at 19:00. Tickets available for 5 euro. More info soon
School's Out! #35 with Betsy Greer
Friday 29 September 2023, 18:00 - 22:00
School's Out! #36 with Djamel KlouchE
Friday 27 October 2023, 18:00 - 22:00
School's Out! #37 with EVA PFANNES
Friday 24 November 2023, 18:00 - 22:00
Friday 29 September 2023. Doors open at 18:00. Events starts at 19:00. Tickets available for 5 euro. More info soon
Friday 27 October 2023. Doors open at 18:00. Events starts at 19:00. Tickets available for 5 euro. More info soon
Friday 24 November 2023. Doors open at 18:00. Events starts at 19:00. Tickets available for 5 euro. More info soon
Previous Events
Previous School's Out!
Other previous events
27 January 2023
School's Out #30 with Robert Bevan
25 November 2022
School's Out #29 with Adam Nathaniel Furman & Joshua Mardell
28 October 2022
School's Out #28 with Anne Geenen & David Schmidt of Site Practice
30 September 2022
Schools Out! #27 with Tjeerd Veenhoven
27 April 2022
Schools Out! #26 with Jasper van der Linden & Ludovica Cassina of BC Architects
29 April 2022
Schools Out! #25 with Verity-Jane Keefe
25 March 2022
School's Out! #24 with Samir Bantal
25 February 2022
Schools Out! #23 with Alessandra Covini & Giovanni Bellotti of Studio Ossidiana
28 January 2022
Schools Out! #22 with Alison Killing
29 October 2021
Schools Out! #21 with Herman Kossmann
24 September 2021
Schools Out! #20 with Jan Willem Petersen
25 June 2021
School's Out! #19 with Adriaan Geuze
28 May 2021
School's Out! #18 with Malu Borja of Al Borde
30 April 2021
School's Out! #17 with Zvi Efrat
26 March 2021
School's Out! #16 - Maaskant Award Ceremony for Michelle Provoost
26 February 2021
School's Out! #15 with Pascale Sablan
29 January 2021
School's Out! #14 with Kilian Kleinschmidt
27 November 2020
School's Out! #13 with Carlijn Kingma
30 Oktober 2020
School's Out! #12 with Jord den Hollander
25 September 2020
School's Out! #11 with Reinier de Graaf
June 2020
School's Out! ON AIR - Corona Perspectives
29 February 2020
School's Out! #10 with Momoyo Kaijima
24 January 2020
School Party + talk by Sam Jacob
29 November 2019
School's Out! #9 with Petra Blaisse
25 October 2019
School's Out! #8 with Alfredo Brillembourg and WLDRF
27 September 2019
School's Out! #7 with Liza Fior
28 June 2019
School's Out! #6 with Georgeen Theodore
31 May 2019
School's Out! #5 with Peter Barber
26 April 2019
School's Out! #4 with Dore van Duivenbode
29 March 2019
School's Out! #3 with Lesley Lokko
22 February 2019
School's Out! #2 with Dirk Sijmons
25 January 2019
School's Out! #1 with Maria Lisogorskaya
22 January 2023
Wall to Wall field club with MacGuffin Magazine
18 October, 08 November and 22 November 2022
Back to School with... Marina Otero Verzier - Future Storage: Architectures to host the Metaverse
24 June 2022
School Party 2022
15 & 16 April 2022
Housing Futures - A weekend on spatial strategies for alternative forms of living in collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut.
29 November 2021
Minorities” and “Telling the Story” - international expert meeting with the International New Town Institute
16 October 2020
Taking Back Housing! - Online international symposium with International New Town Institute
05 March 2020
Worldmaking - Cities and Architecture on the Cold War Frontier
Tuesday 21 January 2020
Public Lecture Central District by Platform Wederopbouw Rotterdam
22 November 2019
American planning association Benelux Meetup
3 October 2019
New Territorial Narratives - Symposium on photography as a research tool. With Urban Reports, Theo Baart and the Nederlands Fotomuseum.
26 September 2019
Post 65: Verkenning naar erfgoed uit 1965–1990
11 July 2019
Book presentation: City of Comings and Goings by Crimson
6 June 2019
Expert Meeting 'Wie betaald de stad' with Vers Beton
31 May 2019
Workshop Rotterdamse Dakendagen
11 April 2019
‘Dutch Designs for a Cycling Country’, Presentation of results organised by Board of Government Advisors
10 April 2019
Expert meeting with Ben Judah
9 April 2019
Platform Wederopbouw, focus group reconstruction of the Rotterdam Central District area.
7 March 2019
Archiprix Rotterdam Meeting and presentation on M4H, Nieuw Mathenesse
14 February 2019
Groeikernenkring with the International New Town Institute
26 January 2019
Workshop ‘Pouring Concrete Planters’ by Maria Lisogorskaya (Assemble) & Tomas Dirrix
16 November 2018
TU Delft Minor ‘House for the future’ presentation of results
15 November2018
International New Town Day 2018, ‘New Town Boom Town’
19 October 2018
Opening event Independent School for the City.
