This is practice

Abstract

This is practice presents spatial design as an expanded field of public action. Gathering more than forty faculty contributions, alongside archival material from Nieuwe Instituut, the exhibition shows practice through buildings, books, exhibitions, courses, archives, films, scenarios and atlases. Organised into five chapters, it examines how evidence, collaboration, publication, pedagogy and speculation address climate instability, displacement, housing pressure, territorial transformation and the erosion of public life. The exhibition frames drawing, mapping, sequencing, modelling, fieldwork, exhibiting and editing as spatial tools, revealing a faculty at work across formats, methods and audiences, and situating it within wider international communities of practice.