Over three sessions, Art & Spatial Praxis invites research collaborators to imagine more equitable, communal, queer, and subversive ways of being and of inhabiting our urban environments. This series is a collaboration between the research group Art & Spatial Praxis and ARIAS .
On 27 May 2026 we celebrated the reveal of the Material Library. Márk Redele gave an introduction on the Material Library, the linked workshop series called Material Assemblies and how the Rietveld community can get involved. The Material Library is a growing archive that can be found here: materials.rietveldsandberg.nl Also, Michiel De Cleene gave a guest presentation on his online archive the-documents.org .
On 16 April 2026 CoE CI presented their new publication Dream a little | about AI and creative practices. A collection about AI, viewed from the creative practices of artists, designers, researchers, and alumni of art and design programs from their network. With contributions from a.o. Patricia de Vries (professor Art & Spatial Praxis) and Zachary Formwalt (artist and filmmaker and connected to the research group Algorithmic Cultures).
The Lectoraat Art & Spatial Praxis has recently been awarded a seedling grant by the Centre of Expertise for Creative Innovation (CoECI) for its forthcoming project Rehearsing Futures: Strategies for Living Otherwise. Developed in collaboration with the ATD Lectorate at AHK, the project will run throughout this calendar year and address the normalisation of far-right political language and framing in social and cultural spaces. It will bring together activist collectives, artists, organisers, and educators to work with performative methods seeking to articulate practices of refusal within cultural and educational spaces in response to these shifts in norms.
Rietveld Sandberg Research and The Hmm are collaborating in the research project Connecting Otherwise. Together, we made a survey to understand how artists, designers, and cultural workers navigate the landscape of digital systems. Please help us fill in this big Big Tech vs Alternatives survey. You can find it here . The survey is anonymous. You can leave your email addresses if you want to stay informed about the project.
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
The launch of the publication 'How Material Comes to Matter - Workshops as sites of collective resistance and reimagination' took place on the 13th of March at bookstore San Serriffe, with guests Harriet Rose Morley and Clem Edwards with introduction by Anja Groten and Márk Redele.
The Art & Spatial Praxis research group is proud to announce the publication of three new contributions on its Plot(ting) platform. Each of these articles explore language and its various registers; the colonial historicity of form, identity and structure; the affective, imaginative and reparative possibilities to be found in the midst of manufactured chaos.
The Art and Spatial research group is delighted to share a series of videos, presented as the culmination of the ‘Tactics of the Plot’ working group. You can watch the video series below and on the research group’s Plot(ting) platform, available here: plotting.rietveldsandberg.nl/?page_id=1056
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.
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 .
On Wednesday November 26, 2025, together with a group of students and teachers, we had the rare opportunity to visit and work in the Atelier building of the Rijksmuseum and NICAS (The Netherlands Institute for Conservation+Art+Science+). We were introduced to the workshops and laboratories at NICAS exploring different temporalities of art-making through the lens of material-based research. After that, we received a tour with presentations at four conservation studios: Textiles, Inks and Pigments (RCE), Furniture, Imaging Room. We ended with a guided conversation, collective mapping exercise and reading that attempted shifting our gaze from the moment of the now to the wider temporal dimension of conception, development and multiple phases of becoming what we perceive today of an artwork. We focused on the long and arduous processes that precede the perception of an artwork as a finished product. How can we unravel materials and techniques used in artworks? And does this affect the meaning of the artwork in the present?
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.
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.
The Art & Spatial Praxis research group is proud to announce the publication of three new articles featuring queer and anti-colonial perspectives on its Plot(ting) platform.