This two-day workshop uses the practice of hand weaving to explore technology and cycles. Attendees start with movement exercises before building their own backstrap looms and sharing time on a central frame. The TuYo Foundation will introduce their work through a live demonstration and group discussion. Together, participants talk through personal textile memories, older technologies, workplace automation, and ethics. The discussions and reflection are led by artists and researchers Gleb Maiboroda and Michèle Boulogne.

Date: 22 & 23 October 2026
Location: Auditorium, 3rd floor, Benthem Crowel building, Sandberg Instituut
Sign up: mark.redele@rietveldacademie.nl

This workshop is part of the two-year artistic research project “Connecting Otherwise” initiated by the Materiality Research Group, kindly funded by SIA and Creative Industries Fund NL.

Graphic design Alix Stria

This workshop is organized in collaboration with the TuYo Foundation and invites participants to engage with a living textile tradition through direct exchange with one of its most accomplished practitioners. Founded in Amsterdam in 2021, TuYo Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to preserving, revitalising and promoting ancestral textile traditions while supporting Indigenous and local communities through socially and environmentally responsible practices.