Costas Papadopoulos awarded NWO Museum grant

Together with Ania Molenda from Het Nieuwe Instituut, Costas Papapdopoulos has been awarded an NWO museum grant of €50,000 for the research project ‘Unfolding the Archive: New Dimensions of Access to Born-digital Architecture Collections’.

They will develop new conceptual approaches and prototypes to explore how the National Collection of Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning managed by Het Nieuwe Instituut can use the digital values of its born-digital heritage to make the collection accessible in a dynamic, networked, multimodal and multivocal way.

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