event
27
May '26
We invite you for a celebratory reveal of the Material Library and a joyful introduction to the linked workshop series, Material Assemblies.
17:00 - 17:45: Introduction
17:45 - 18:15: Guest presentation, the-documents.org by Michiel De Cleene
18:15: Celebratory drinks
The Material Library is an initiative that foregrounds the interconnected material processes underlying the life of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie as a place of education, a building with diverse facilities, and a socio-material community. It seeks to bring the academy’s complex material domain into a visible and graspable realm through a digital, visual database, while also creating publics around and with the materials of the academy.
The library expands through intensive workshops called Material Assemblies that are held throughout the year. Open for students and staff, these workshops identify opportunistic entry points into the material chains of the academy and explore the links that connect them. The library grows by tracing materials that are consumed, produced, condensed, and transformed within the academy.
The Material Library is an open platform and a shared resource that invites all members of the Rietveld community to use it, appropriate it, co-opt it, contribute to it, develop learning methodologies around it and along the way build a shared vision of kinship with the materials of the academy.
Join us at the launch event to meet the Material Library and to learn the ways you can get involved.
The Material Library is initiated by Márk Redele and co-hosted by Rietveld Sandberg Research and Urgent Ecologies.
17:45 - 18:15: Guest presentation, the-documents.org by Michiel De Cleene
18:15: Celebratory drinks
The Material Library is an initiative that foregrounds the interconnected material processes underlying the life of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie as a place of education, a building with diverse facilities, and a socio-material community. It seeks to bring the academy’s complex material domain into a visible and graspable realm through a digital, visual database, while also creating publics around and with the materials of the academy.
The library expands through intensive workshops called Material Assemblies that are held throughout the year. Open for students and staff, these workshops identify opportunistic entry points into the material chains of the academy and explore the links that connect them. The library grows by tracing materials that are consumed, produced, condensed, and transformed within the academy.
The Material Library is an open platform and a shared resource that invites all members of the Rietveld community to use it, appropriate it, co-opt it, contribute to it, develop learning methodologies around it and along the way build a shared vision of kinship with the materials of the academy.
Join us at the launch event to meet the Material Library and to learn the ways you can get involved.
The Material Library is initiated by Márk Redele and co-hosted by Rietveld Sandberg Research and Urgent Ecologies.
Michiel De Cleene (b. 1988, BE) is a photographer and researcher. His practice explores the field between the document and the documentary and the possibilities of uncertainty, speculation and cross-referentiality within it. Through an experimental documentary approach, image and text merge in artist publications and exhibitions.
