Materiality – How Material Comes to Matter On November 19, 2025 the Material Library organised the first Material Assembly. Together with a group of students, we followed the material traces of the trees felled on the neighbouring plot of the academy and visited the sawmill of Stadshout in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel.

Materiality – How Material Comes to Matter The Materiality research group is presenting the publication: How Material Comes to Matter - Workshops as sites of collective resistance and reimagination. This publication evolved from a shared urgency among students, educators, and researchers to foreground the pivotal role of workshops and labs in art and design education, and to recognize them as critical and versatile spaces for collaborative learning and material-driven inquiry.

A hardcopy of the publication is available for 10 euros: shop.rietveldacademie.nl
A free online version is available on: etherport.org

Materiality – How Material Comes to Matter Presentations and conversation by Agustina Woodgate, experts from the DLR (The German Aerospace Center) and students from Cologne International School of Design (KISD) and Parsons The New School.

Materiality – How Material Comes to Matter Rietveld and Sandberg students are invited to join our workshop Material Temporalities on 6 November. This workshop offers a rare opportunity to visit and work in the Atelier Building of the Rijksmuseum. During the first part of the workshop you will receive an in-depth introduction to the workshops and laboratories at NICAS, exploring different temporalities of art-making through the lens of material-based research. In the second part of the workshop students will be invited to engage in exercises and discussion evolving from their own material experimentations through the lens of preservation and restoration.

Materiality – How Material Comes to Matter

Materiality – How Material Comes to Matter This workshop brings together the students of the TXT bachelor department, the Garden Department and other living organisms in a collective site of material research to engage with material practices weaving together human and other-than-human knowledges.