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Het Nieuwe Instituut appoints Aric Chen as general and artistic director Shanghai-based architecture and design curator Aric Chen has been named the new general and artistic director of Rotterdam's Het Nieuwe Instituut. Chen will take up the position at Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI), an institute and museum for architecture, design and digital culture, from 1 May. In taking up the role, Chen, who is currently curatorial director of the Design Miami fairs, plans to expand on the institute's tradition of research and critical inquiry. Above and top image: Aric Chen will take up his new role in May...

Globalisation, urbanity, the pandemic and more explored at MAAT Lisbon show Globalisation, urbanity, the pandemic and more explored at MAAT Lisbon show A new exhibition at MAAT Lisbon, ‘X is Not a Small Country – Unravelling the Post-Global Era’, curated by Aric Chen with Martina Muzi, explores globalisation, urbanity, the pandemic and more Photography: Pedro Pina, courtesy of EDP Foundation Globalisation, our pandemic world and issues of urbanity are a few of the subjects highlighted in a new exhibition opening at MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology) in Lisbon this...

Last modified on Fri 18 Dec 2020 05.54 EST * * * Susie Gillespie at the loom in her Devon workshop Photograph: Jeremy Walker/Jeremy walker Selected by architect Sarah Wigglesworth In February, about four weeks before lockdown, I attended a five-day course in weaving linen run by textile artist Susie Gillespie. Held at a farm near Totnes where they grow their own flax, we flayed, spun, dyed with natural dyes, and then wove a piece of cloth, all in five days. It was incredibly fulfilling, calming, meditative, quiet but also communal, with eight of us all working together but with entirely diff...

Award-winning broadcast journalist and storyteller One of the best-known news anchors in Indonesia, Andini Effendi has reported from all corners of the world. She covered the Libyan Civil War in 2011 and the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. After falling in love with Africa during a trip to South Africa and Namibia last year, she hopes to visit Rwanda next. “I want to see the conservation work there—how nature and good policies can be an asset to a country. I believe Indonesia can learn from it.” She also wants to head to Guatemala and Chile, the latter for a scheduled marathon that was...