In any creative practice, the ability to conduct an interview is a crucial skill. Traditionally, interviews are seen as straightforward conversations: a series of questions posed to extract information. However, true meaning comes from breaking convention, which really only works to constrain conversations via predictable answers and outcomes.
In Spring 2025, the Critical Inquiry research group is hosting a project by Annette-Carina van der Zaag, drawing on their larger initiative Aesthetics of Ruination, co-curated with Rory Crath. Titled ‘Rupture and the Otherwise’, the project combines theoretical and artistic approaches, issuing in a performance lecture offering a haptic exploration of the relation between ruination and rupture. Van der Zaag's performance lecture is open both to students/alumni of Rietveld/Sandberg and to the broader public. To register your attendance please sign up here: eventix.shop/maj5q5fg
Join us on 15 May at Framer Framed for Slow AI: Practices of Thinking, Sensing, and Refusing—a day-long symposium reimagining artificial intelligence through artistic practice and the lenses of ethics, relationality, and refusal. The event is free but we need to keep an eye on attendance since we have a limited capacity, so please register here .
The philosophy seminars of the spring-summer semester will examine the concept of utopia with a focus on the work of Ernst Bloch.
You are warmly invited to the launch of the issue of 'Wijsgerig Perspectief' (Amsterdam University Press) dedicated to the work of Sara Ahmed on June 17, 2025 during a philosophical café hosted by Felix & Sofie at Perdu.
Between November 2024 and March 2025, the research group Plot(ting), part of the Lectoraat Art & Spatial Praxis, hosted Tactics of the Plot: Reimagining Tools and Methods for Resistance & Collective Futures. This project, a collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures, brought together a diverse group of makers, researchers, activists, and those working across disciplines whose practices can be examined through Sylvia Wynter’s concept of the plot. Participants included Inte Gloerich, Elisa Guiliano, Wouter Stroet, Sepp Eckenhaussen, Mayis Rukel, and Lina Bravo Mora.
The online publication "Fellows Published 2022-2023" is launched. The process and findings of the fellows who conducted their research in 2022 and 2023 are made accessible here. Contributors are: Aaro Murphy, Alaa Abu Asad, Andrea Lopez Bernal, Charlie Clemoes, MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr), Olya Korsun, Patricia Domingues, Sandra Golubjevaite and Zaïra Pourier.
Take a look at the online publication here: 2023.fellowspublished.rietveldacademie.nl/
The latest issue of 'Wijsgerig Perspectief' (Amsterdam University Press) is dedicated to the work of Sara Ahmed. Ahmed is renowned for her groundbreaking contributions to feminist theory, phenomenology, cultural studies, queer theory, and critical race theory. This issue features a contribution from Patricia de Vries (lector Art & Spatial Praxis), who also served as its editor.
On March 3, the Centre of Expertise Creative Innovation (CoECI) presented "Testing the Waters: on the value of artistic practices for societal challenges" at the Rietveld Academie. This publication aims to open the discussion on how to integrate artistic methods into research and innovation agendas, without losing the unique qualities of artistic methods.
In 2019, Maia Gattás and Francisca Khamis Giacoman met in the West Bank. Their correspondence, rooted in shared memories and layered histories, continues to explore how water shapes Palestinian landscapes, experiences, and diasporic connections. The first two letters were published last autumn. We now invite you to read letters 3 and 4.
On 28 November 2024, Müge Yılmaz gave her end of residency lecture and launched the first edition of the booklet series "Future Guide for the Salty Forager". Set in 2124, this practical and imaginative foraging guide offers insights on gathering, living with, and consuming salty plants for future readers.
On November 28, Müge Yılmaz gave her end of residency lecture and launched the first edition of the booklet series "Future Guide for the Salty Forager". Besides, we experienced a performative salt-resistant bite by the Brackish Collective. Katía Truijen and Radna Rumping from Loom, practice for cultural transformation, gave their start of residency lecture and introduced their research project "Rhine River Rehearsal – Reimagining a River." Take a look at the video and photos here.
The Gerrit Rietveld Academie congratulates Femke Herregraven on obtaining the title of Creator Doctus (CrD) on 14 November 2024. CrD is a project developed at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie that seeks to realise a new European third cycle award for higher arts education.
Flavia Dzodan held her inaugural lecture on November 26th on the impossibilities of algorithmic translation. "Amorino Latente/ Latent Cupid” revolves around the translation of art and its emotional impact through algorithmic and computational processes. Take a look at the video & photos of the event.
The Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Rietveld Sandberg Research are pleased to announce the appointment of Flavia Dzodan as Professor (Lector) of Algorithmic Cultures. Dzodan’s work marks a significant contribution to the GRA’s mission of fostering a research culture that embraces expansive, interdisciplinary, and non-traditional approaches, which reflect the complex and critical issues of our time. Her appointment underscores the GRA’s commitment to recognizing and supporting research practices that transcend conventional academic boundaries, weaving together theoretical exploration and artistic expression.
The Art & Spatial Praxis research group gather monthly with the Plot(ting) research group to discuss theoretical and material manifestations that align with Sylvia Wynter’s concept of the plot. In January, the reading group examined Demonic Grounds by Katherine McKittrick.
For more than a decade, Femke Herregraven has been investigating which material base, geographies, and value systems are carved out by financial technologies and infrastructures. The exhibition 'Dialect' marks the last chapter of Femke Herregraven's Creator Doctus trajectory at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie/Sandberg Instituut.
During the symposium and round table discussion on Algorithmic Cultures on the 6th op December 2023, Flavia Dzodan launched her new essay ‘Haptic Mournings; Morning the Never-Made' about our increasing blurring relation to the digital world, the imagined and real.
"The City as Anthology: Movements at the Margins of Public Space" presents the work of Mariken Overdijk, artist and teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, with an introduction in collaboration with Jeroen Boomgaard, former lector of LAPS (Lectorate of Art & Public Space) at Rietveld Sandberg Research. The book was launched on 13th of January 2024 at Zone2Source, Amstelpark and on 27th of January at Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam during the Boekie Woekie & Friends event.
We are delighted to hear that the publication ‘I Am Going to Be Your Last Teacher - A Workbook’ by Yael Davids is part of the selection of the Best Dutch Book Designs.
