Studium Generale Rietveld Academie is an extensive transdisciplinary theory programme that addresses students and faculty at all departments of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. It regularly opens up to broader audiences. Studium Generale wants to show how art and design are linked with other domains (from the personal to the political, from the vernacular to the academic), how our ‘now' is linked with past and future, our ‘here' with ‘elsewhere'.
In the belief that art students can only learn to think independently when knowledge, imagination and reflection combine to work together in an unorthodox and critical way, Studium Generale Rietveld Academie embarks every year on slightly unruly and therefore always exciting research trajectories. Annually selected curators and numerous guest lecturers from all over the (art)world propose a wide variety of entry points to contemporary discourse.
Studium Generale Rietveld Academie 2025-2026
loVe making ᥫ᭡ love as a creative act and site of resistance
“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.” — bell hooks
What if love is the wild glitch in the system — a creative act of care, queer becoming, and embodied refusal? Love is in the air, in the making, in the kernel of being alive — yet it leaks through every attempt to contain it.
The way we live shapes how we think about love. It’s not just a feeling — it’s something culture teaches us, something shaped by apps and social rules, something that keeps our economic system running. But at the same time, love can break those patterns. It can be a force for care, for connection, for pushing back against what controls us.
loVe making speculates on love as unruly practice: tender and fierce, collective and embodied — an invitation to love against power, to make and remake worlds otherwise.
How can we love-make-mobilise-repair-disrupt together?
With love,
Studium Generale
Programme Overview
Performance, healing yoga, talk, film screening, love-disco, workshop, dance, reading group & multi-day festival + Rietveld Uncut.
Preliminary Programme
When:
- 7 January — Basicyear Workshop with Taka Taka
- Wednesday afternoons: 14, 21, 28 January, 4, 11, 18 February, 4 and 11 March
14:00: talks/performances
16:00: Cinema Circle
17:00: Reading Group, workshops, and seminars
Where: Gym, Theory Stairs & Library
What:
- Performance, talk & more
- Cinema Circle, curated by Derica Shields
- Workshops, lead by Mira Thompson & Staci Bu Shea
- Reading Group, moderated by Jay Tan
- Critical Studies seminars, with Macarena Magaña Villar & Paul Schmidt, gervaise alexis savvias & Emma Ajdari, António Manso Preto & Mehmet Süzgün
Conference Festival & Rietveld Uncut
When: 18 - 22 March
Where: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Supporting publications
Lexicon
Website & Eeeh-reader
Staff
Jorinde Seijdel (Head)
Jort van der Laan (Coordinator)
