Welcome to the Studium Generale Rietveld Academie website! To encourage critical making and thinking, Studium Generale offers a diverse and transdisciplinary programme every year on an urgent theme. Read more about the set-up and structure here.

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The Programme Overview home page displays announcements of ongoing events and activities, and provides instant access to their live streams when appropriate.

Below the Programme overview is the Archive Picks area, which presents varying selections of older programme contributions, curated by guests or by ourselves. Older contributions can thus regain attention or meaning, or be presented in alternative arrangements.

At the bottom is the Archive. There you will find material from 2011 to the present: part of the video-recorded contributions to the annual conference of Studium Generale and since March 2020 also recordings of events and presentations of the preliminary programmes. The archive is searchable in various ways and offers a chronological overview of previous editions and links to the associated project websites. It also contains announcements and descriptions of previous programme components, which can no longer be relived, but do provide some glances in the histories of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

The purpose of the website is to inform and present what is happening at the moment, but it is also a memory, in which a lot can be found and unexpected encounters can take place.

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Mon, Jan 16 — Mon, Mar 27, 2023REFUGE – fleeing, flowing, leaking
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Refuge – fleeing, flowing, leaking
Studium Generale Rietveld Academie

Humans and more-than humans seek refuge because of war, terror, hunger, exploitation, climate change, or through structural forms of everyday oppression and exclusion. You find refuge in a camp, bomb shelter, safe space, in a body, state of being, state of mind. Or you refuge in a (self-chosen) family, community, movement, or collectivity.

This edition of Studium Generale considers the phenomenon of refuge not only as a concrete and physical construction in a violent or toxic reality, but also as a potential affective space or a caring body. It looks at how restrictive systems (ideologies, states, institutions, academies, machines…) flow and leak unpredictably, from which lines of flight can arise.

From there, how can we harbour and connect bodies and create refuges for affective and dissident voices?

Refuge programme website: https://refuge.rietveldacademie.nl

Weekly Wednesday afternoon programme at the Rietveld
Jan. 18, 25; Feb. 8, 15, 22; Mar. 8, 15

14:00—15:30 Juicy Refuge: spaces to hide and spaces to shine
Talks and performances curated by Simon(e) van Saarloos, hosted by Bebe Berat Bebek, Fedlev auditorium

16:00—17:00 Still We Thrive
Beamclub screenings curated and hosted by Jo-Lene Ong with Bo Wang, Fedlev auditorium

17:15 —19:00 How do birds find their way home?
Workshop with Yara Said

17: 15 —19:00, First, Business and Economy… Structures of Class, Law, Race, Rights and the Places where Dreams are Powerful
Reading Group moderated by Jay Tan, Rietveld Library

Publications:
y/our tongues are true, Lexicon written by CPR
Refuge and Reparative Practice, Reader with Rietveld Library, edited by Amelia Groom and Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen

Special projects and collaborations:
Basicyear project I & II with Taka Taka
Dedicated website, design and visuals with Graphic Design student team
Rietveld Uncut exhibition, curated and coordinated by Tomas Adolfs & Tarja Szaraniec

  1. Conference-festival and Rietveld Uncut at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam March 22, 23, 24, 25

Guest curators conference: Erika Sprey, DAAR (Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti), Feifei Zhou, Nina bell F.

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