Art and Research

See also website Rietveld Academie: Honours programme

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Honours Programme “Art and Research”

The Honours Programme ART and RESEARCH consists of a collaboration between the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the University of Amsterdam. Initially developed in 2006 and already on its 6th edition, it aims to combine the best of both institutions in a programme that allows art students the opportunity to engage with theory on a deeper level than what is offered in the Gerrit Rietveld Academie’s regular courses, while on the other hand, it involves university students in creative processes absent in the scope of the University of Amsterdam’s courses. Departing from the idea that there are certain overlaps between the practices of science and art, it provides students with the incentive to link different perspectives and methodologies, as well as challenge traditions, in order to create and develop new modes of research, while learning from each other’s fields of study in the process.
Practically speaking, this means that for a period of about 14 months, a group of eighteen to twenty selected students will work on a joint project, which starts with the attendance of a one-week training in Spain. Here they are exposed to an innovative teaching method based on Socratic dialogue, through which they formulate a general theme. Back in The Netherlands, they conceive sub-themes in smaller multi-disciplinary groups, and collaborate intensively on a collective research leading to a joined output, consisting of a publication and a presentation at the end of the programme.
Admission to the programme is based upon talent and grades, and the projects mentioned above are developed on top of the student’s regular schedule. Although guided by tutors, guest lecturers, and other professionals, the students contribute to the development of the programme’s content as it progresses. Besides this, most of the organisational work involved in the production of the presentation and publication also lies in their hands, which makes the programme unique.
Another characteristic feature of “ART and RESEARCH” is the extremely wide range of disciplines it brings together, with participants from departments such as the Gerrit Rietveld Academie’s Audiovisual, Fine Arts, Glass, Inter-Architecture and Graphic Design, the University’s Future Planet Studies, Theatre Studies, Philosophy, Art History and Literature Studies.
Previous programme’s have shown us that these very motivated students have better chances of being selected for Master’s programme’s abroad, and several of them have won awards in past years, such as the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Award for Best Thesis. In the words of one of the programme’s former students: ‘It’s like being given new ears to listen to things that you thought you knew’.

Students 2013-2014
Anastasia Pandilovska (Inter-Architecture), Annemiek Geel, Baha Görkem Yalim, Bastien Gachet, Brenda Guesnet, Céline Hürzeler, Chris van Diemen, Deborah Schrijvers, Florian Jomain, Freja Kirchheiner, Giulia Crispiani, Kristian Mølberg Meyer, Laura Dima (Inter-Architecture), Lenneke Vos, Maïa Wolf, Chi Nguyen, Rosanne van der Voet, Sofia Dupon, Tiemen Wind

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