On 27 May 2026 we celebrated the reveal of the Material Library. Márk Redele gave an introduction on the Material Library, the linked workshop series called Material Assemblies and how the Rietveld community can get involved. The Material Library is a growing archive that can be found here: materials.rietveldsandberg.nl Also, Michiel De Cleene gave a guest presentation on his online archive the-documents.org .
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.
The Material Library is initiated by Márk Redele and co-hosted by Rietveld Sandberg Research and Urgent Ecologies.
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.
The Material Library is initiated by Márk Redele and co-hosted by Rietveld Sandberg Research and Urgent Ecologies.
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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.
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Materiality
Materiality
