René Boer
René Boer works as a critic, curator and organizer in and beyond the fields of architecture, art, design and heritage, with a focus on spatial justice.
Art & Spatial Praxis – On September 30, 2025 we gathered for the closing of the Loom residency. Loom has been developing their artistic research project Rhine river rehearsal – reimagining a river with the Art & Spatial Praxis research group. On September 30 we followed their audio tour Leaky Turns, Stories from Amsterdam's Waterlands and heard more from their past year of research and residency. Take a look at the video made by Yana Khazanovich and photos made by Konstantin Guz. The podcast can be listened in your podcast app or here .
Loom, practice for cultural transformation, has been developing their artistic research project Rhine River Rehearsal – reimagining a river with the Art & Spatial Praxis research group. Next to the audio tour Leaky Turns , they made the publication Rhine River Rehearsal.
Art & Spatial Praxis – Join us on Tuesday, September 30, for the closing of the Loom residency—a collective listening route, a shared experience, and a moment to gather. You can register here.
Art & Spatial Praxis – What becomes of water when we look at it through the lens of different artists and researchers? And how might it assist us in looking at the world differently? Seven practitioners individually welcome us to a water-related place in Amsterdam, and explain what this place tells us about water when we listen, look, and think carefully. Each interview is preceded by a listening exercise, guided by the voice of the interviewee; intimately connected to their chosen location. These recordings can be experienced onsite, or wherever you find yourself, with a moment to spare.
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