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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...

New publication: More-than-Human LONDON .- The More-than-Human reader brings together texts by writers across a wide array of disciplines that serve to reflect on the state of post-anthropocentric thinking today. Focusing on the ecologies and technologies of climate injustice and inequalities, as well as the destructive structures lurking within anthropocentrism, More-than-Human proposes complex entanglements, frictions, and reparative attention across species and beings. Thinking past the centrality of the human subject, the texts that compose this reader begin to imagine networks of ethics ...