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China Unofficial Archives
We are currently working on a new version of the China Unofficial Archives, a digital repository dedicated to making accessible the key documents, films, blogs, and publications of a movement of Chinese people seeking to reclaim their country's history.
Design Signals
This installation looks at the transformation of Romania’s chemical industry from socialist-era specialization to post-2000 fragmentation. Using international trade data from 1960 onward, each sectoris represented on a scatter plot graph in terms of its product complexity and export-import balance. The resulting visualisations bring how industries shift across decades to life. While some advance toward greater complexity and strength, becoming a part of Romania’s export landscape, others regress orremain dependent on imports. A second layer of visualisation presents individual chemical products in a series of boxes. Each column traces a sector and maps the destinations of its exports, situating specific trajectories within broader industrial patterns.
Unfolding the Archive
Unfolding the Archive: New Dimensions of Access to Born-digital Architecture Collections is a research project conducted by Ania Molenda at Nieuwe Instituut between 2024-2025. It explored how affordances of born-digital design records could improve access to contemporary architecture collections in ways that are dynamic and networked, multimodal, and multivocal.
Vantage
Vantage is a tool designed for fact-checkers, investigative journalists, and Open Source Intelligencepractitioners – particularly those working independently or in smaller teams. The platform combines photomatching with support for geospatial data, videos and images, allowing users to verify content, reconstruct events and situate evidence.