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.

Rasum A’núuj a, an Oneiric Assembly

Triqui midwives from San Juan Copala in Mexico learn midwifery in dreams. In this space, their future practice is revealed at a very young age. When the midwives share dreams, they express a collective work, a practice that guides life, and an ability to relate to time beyond the material world. Daniel will share his experience working alongside triqui midwives, women who relate to dreams as a learning and healing tool. With the use of tequio and dreaming assemblies, they are deepening their understanding of the environmental destruction to imagine possible futures to confront climate collapse.
Daniel Godínez Nivón (he/him) is a Mexican artist whose practice is linked to processes of social participation related to collective knowledge and education. One of the fundamental tools of his practice is ‘tequio’, a traditional system of work which consists of a communal, collaborative and compulsory work system. He studied at the Multiple Media Seminar in Arts and Design at UNAM, Mexico, then undertook a residency at Jan van Eyck Academie (2021-2022) In 2022 he received the Prince Claus Mentorship Award from the Prince Claus Fund & Goethe-Institut and represented Mexico in the 23rd International Exhibition of the Milano Triennale and won 2nd best Pavilion.