François Girard-Meunier during Life Hacks: Space at Varia, Rotterdam
WORKNOT! during Life Hacks: Space at varia, Rotterdam
Ten Theses on Life Hacks publication shown during Life Hacks: Space at Varia, Rotterdam
Mia Melvaer and Martino Morandi during Life Hacks: Time at Het Nieuwe Institut, Rotterdam
Rik Laging during Life Hacks: Time at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
IRIS during Life Hacks: IRIS at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
Marguerite van den Berg, Silvio Lorusso and Geert Lovink during Life Hacks: Mind at Het Nieuwe Institut, Rotterdam
Life Hacks was part of Het Nieuwe Instituut’s fellowship program around the theme of ‘burn out’. As 2017 fellow Ramon Amaro stated, “on the one hand, to ‘burn out’ is to stall, break, or become otherwise unusable. In other words, processes, procedure and participation simply stop working. On the other hand, ‘burn out’ is an opportunity to break open, promote action and catalyse change towards new structures and relations.” Life Hacks manifested in a series of gatherings that respond to this ambivalence by exploring the approaches and techniques adopted to design or redesign life against the backdrop of growing precarity and an intensified entrepreneurial regime. Together with theorists, practitioners and XPUB, the Experimental Publishing program of the Piet Zwart Institute, Life Hacks looked into the tensions and releases that emerge from the constant reinvention and progressive self-optimization necessary to inhabit public and private space, manage time and productivity, and tweak one’s own thoughts and feelings. Life Hacks was jointly organized by Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Research Department and XPUB.
- Life Hacks: Mind (with Marguerite van den Berg, Geert Lovink, XPUB), Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL)
- Life Hacks: Time (with Michele Galluzzo, Rik Laging, Luis Rodil-Fernandez, Hans Lammerant, Mia Melvaer, Martino Morandi, XPUB), Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL)
- Life Hacks: Space (with François Girard-Meunier, WORKNOT!, Roel Roscam Abbing, Manetta Berends, Niek Hilkmann, XPUB), varia, Rotterdam (NL)
Photos by Pedro Sà Couto and Cristina Cochior