Materiality – Material Library We invite you for a celebratory reveal of the Material Library and a joyful introduction to the linked workshop series, Material Assemblies.

Materiality – Material Library The second edition of Material Assemblies took place on 22 April 2026 and looked at the material infrastructures that underlie the virtual presence and digital affordances of the academy. We traced the instruments, servers, cabling, receivers and emitters that form a connected tissue of hardware, and the software that routes and mediates the data flowing through it.  IT staff and facilities team members, who maintain this infrastructure, granted us access to the buildings' often‑overlooked zones: the inlets and outlets, processing units, and storage modules that support the networked organism of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. The Material Assembly workshops are organised twice a year for students and staff. We identify opportunistic entry points into the material chains of the academy and explore the links that connect them. Our findings contribute to the expansion of the Material Library: materials.rietveldsandberg.nl Take a look at the photos below.

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 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 – 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.