Jeroen Boomgaard
Jeroen Boomgaard (1953) was Professor of Art and Public Space for 19 years (2003-2022) at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and has established a strong foundation for artistic research at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut. He studied Art History at the University of Amsterdam and received his PhD in Art History from that same university.
From 2017 to 2021 he was Program manager of the Amsterdam Research Institute of the Arts and Sciences (ARIAS) a platform for research collaboration supported by University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten and Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
From 2018 to 2021 Boomgaard was leading an Erasmus+ grant collaboration on the doctorate in the arts. See: CreatorDoctus.eu
Between 2019 and 2022 Boomgaard received an NOW Smart Cultures Grant for the project Contemporary Commoning, a collaboration between Gerrit Rietveld Academie/Sandberg Institute, University of Amsterdam, Waag FutureLab, Casco: Working for the Commons and Studio René Boer, financially supported by BPD/Bouwfonds Gebiedsontwikkeling. See: contemporarycommoning.rietveldacademie.nl
"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.
Contemporary Commoning is a two year research project (2020-2022) investigating the many ways in which ‘commoning’ can contribute to new forms of public space, in the physical as well as the digital realm, and new spaces for public action. This research takes the potential contribution of design and art in these processes of ‘commoning’ as the main point of departure.
The research is a collaboration between the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Sandberg Institute, Waag: Technology and Society, University of Amsterdam’s Center for Urban Studies, Casco Art Institute and Studio René Boer. The research project is grounded in Amsterdam’s Zeeburgereiland, an island on the city’s eastern fringes currently being developed, and will result in a toolkit of ‘recipes for the commons’.
This project is made possible through the support of NWO, BPD and Nautilus.
Visit also the website: contemporarycommoning.rietveldacademie.nl
Hinterlands (2021), as the title of the first ARIAS book publication, grounds time and geography for tuning into the invisible in-between knowledge that emerges from hybrid collaborative research practices; practices which in other words are transdisciplinary. As a very real imaginary that playfully points to the outskirts of dominant research parameters; Hinterlands is a space to experiment and move slower.
The research fellowships are a Sandberg/Rietveld initiative to pursue different knowledge practices involving topics such as Artificial Intelligence, The City and New Materials. From both Rietveld and Sandberg a few candidates are selected to research one of the topics and share their project with the students and the community. This fellowship symposium is an ONLINE EVENT open to all Rietveld and Sandberg students: live.sandberg.nl.
Creator Doctus (CrD) – On the 28th of September 2020 Yael Davids has publicly defended her research concluding the first Creator Doctus (CrD) trajectory.
Creator Doctus (CrD) – In this booklet we introduce the Creator Doctus (CrD) as a model for the third cycle/doctoral trajectory in art education in the Netherlands. A few years ago, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Sandberg Instituut took the initiative of arriving at a trajectory that focused on the art – the work of the artist or designer. The inspiration for this was the model of the meesterstuk, referring to works of art that have played an important role in art history and which were based on extensive periods of research.