Charlie Clemoes (UK) is a writer, editor and podcaster with a background in architectural history. He works as an editor at Failed Architecture, hosts the Failed Architecture Podcast, is editor of the forthcoming book Building Workers Unite and is currently an organizer at NAA! (Netherlands Angry Architects) in association with the Bouwen section of the FNV. He is also co-host of the tetatet podcast series and initiator of the series "Making it Work." He teaches architectural theory at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam and Fontys Tilburg. From 2022-23, he will be a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy.
Curves of Inquiry is a Gerrit Rietveld Academie initiative that showcases the findings of nine artist-researchers who completed a fellowships trajectory in the previous academic year. Each of these projects is carried out in close collaboration with a department of the Rietveld Academie or Sandberg Instituut to foster relationships between educational programs, research activities, and societal issues.
In the Fellows-in-Process series the research fellows of the Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut 2022/2023 will share their process and findings with students and the Rietveld community at large. The series aims to aid interaction, while engendering meaningful conversations between the fellows, students and teachers of both institutes. To that end, events are open to Rietveld and Sandberg students and teachers. Below you can find all workshops. Note that for some workshops you have to sign up.
Spatial theory should happen in space. This may seem obvious, but much like the wider practice of theory, it tends to occur in an essentially abstract institutional bubble, far from the sites where it matters, usually as a solitary pursuit and too often framed as something that only people with considerable knowledge can do. The fellowship project of Charlie Clemoes intends to explore various ways of making spatial theory a more collective and on-site endeavor.