Material Library
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 was initiated by Márk Redele and co-hosted by Rietveld Sandberg Research and Urgent Ecologies.
The Material Library was initiated by Márk Redele and co-hosted by Rietveld Sandberg Research and Urgent Ecologies.
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Materiality – Material Library A workshop following the material traces of the academy's digital networks combined with a guided tour through server rooms and a visit to the antenna mast on the top of the Rietveld building.
Materiality – Material Library A workshop for the Rietveld and Sandberg community that follows the material traces of the trees felled on the neighbouring plot of the academy combined with a site visit to the sawmill of Stadshout.