The Piet Zwart Institute offers studio space, technical facilities and individual tutorial support for independent work, as well as an annually changing programme of thematic projects and lectures, which function as a framework for joint exploration of issues that are relevant to contemporary art and culture.

In this section you will find descriptions of the thematic projects of 2000-2001. They included:

Theatre as a Paradigm of Cultural Practice
a project with Maaike Bleeker and Renee Kool
(September-December 2000)

Hygiene
a project with Anne Bruggenkamp and Peter Westenberg in collaboration with HTV De IJsberg magazine
(September-December 2000)

Phantasmagoria - The Architecture of Consumption
a seminar with Lieven de Cauter
(November 2000)

Just what is it that makes today's cities so different, so appealing?
a project with Jeanne van Heeswijk and Femke Snelting
(January-April 2001)

The Return of the Real
a seminar with Frank Vande Veire
(January-April 2001)

Medium/Message
a project with Hinrich Sachs and Lisette Smits
(April-July 2001)

The year was concluded with a joint visit to the Venice Biennial (July 2001).