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.

This website consists of 3 substantive and informative layers that constantly feed each other.

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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N.B. This website is still under construction! Not everything has been completed yet and the search functions in the Archive are not yet fully functional.

To programme

2025 – 2026
loVe making ᥫ᭡ — love as a creative act and site of resistance

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-disrupt-repair together?

With love,
Studium Generale

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