The Student Council was originally formed with representatives from student-organised initiatives within the school, but we are constantly looking for fresh minds to join us.
We want to engage and encourage students to play a more active role in shaping the school. Student voices are crucial! We see ourselves as a bridge connecting students, staff and teachers with information and resources. This school is not just an assemblage of individual makers, but a place where we care for one another. As a council, we want to lend a hand, share knowledge, and listen carefully.
Through our activities we want to cultivate an even ground for all students and work for greater transparency within the administrative structures of the institution.
We have written minutes of most of our meetings, feel free to ask.
Read our dolphinfesto/ statement of purpose here
The current members of Student Council are:
Pien Overing
(Fine Arts - Rietveld)
Catalina Reyes Navarro
(Resolution - Sandberg)
Jae Pil Eun
(Approaching Language - Sandberg)
Alcide Breaux
( Dirty Art - Sandberg)
Niam Madlani
( Graphic Design - Rietveld)
Stijn Verhoeff
(Advisor)
Sarah Arnolds
(Cordinator)
Student Council was started by these students in 2019
Boyan Montero, Eloïse Dieutegard, Eva Mahhov, Juni Mun, Luca Heydt, Oskar Frere Smith, Pedro Matias, Poppy Paulus-Nicolas, Nagaré Willemsen, Angela Jerardi
These are the members that continued
2019 - 2020
Eloïse Dieutegard
Eva Mahhov
Juni Mun
Luca Heydt
Oskar Frere Smith
Poppy Paulus-Nicolas
2020 - 2021
Emirhan Akin
Eva Mahhov
Juni Mun
Lila Bullen Smith
Luca Heydt
Vivian Mac Gillavry
2021
Bianca Millan Molinari
2021 - 2022
Catalina Reyes Navarro
Emirhan Akin
Jae Pil Eun
Lila Bullen-Smith
Pien Overing
2022-2023
Stella Dikmans
Niam Madlani
Alcide Breaux
Pien Overing
Catalina Reyes Navarro
Jae Pil Eun
Angela Jerardi (Advisor)
Sarah Arnolds (Coordinator)
DRG
In daily life at the Rietveld Academie, departments can feel like separate continents. Only through whispers that get carried over the ocean you find out what is going on at the other sides. Instead of bridges, we want to create the primal continent Pangea at Rietveld, a big collective mess that gains strength through its interconnectedness. Read the drg womanifesto here.
Can Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut become radically inclusive structures? An intra-curricular initiative is working actively between and beyond the structures and discourses of the academy to unsettle the Rietveld and Sandberg from the roots up, supporting existing initiatives, while also developing outreach programs, drawing in new perspectives, and making the context of the academy more inclusive to other voices, minds, and bodies. In 2018, Unsettling Rietveld Sandberg began working towards a policy on inclusion and diversity in the academy.
Contact: Judith Leysner, Tracian Meikle
/ unsettling@rietveldacademie.nl
Manifested in 2018, Asian Union was born in seeking to broaden the boundaries of limitation that derive from the misconceptions of Asian Cultures in the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut. Though there are many different connotations per individual background with the term Asian, we do and welcome everyone who defines themselves as “Asian”. There are ongoing weekly meetings during the semester, conducted online and offline.
Contact: Juni Mun
/ augrasi.ve@gmail.com
The Black Student Union (USB) is an organization aiming to facilitate and support a network of Black students, alumni, and partners of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut.
Contact: Nagare Willemsen
/ blackstudentunion.usb@gmail.com
Near East Union consists of people from Middle East or people with Middle Eastern roots to recalibrate the compass to understand: middle of what and whose east? NEU aims to start a discussion about Non- European people’s situations in Sandberg Institute and Gerrit Rietveld Academy. NEU wants to bring its members together to share their experiences in their new life, and find out common strategies from the common struggles. NEU welcomes all who have something to say about being a Middle Eastern within the frameworks of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and Sandberg Institute.
Contact: Emirhan Akin / neareastunion@gmail.com
The LCU is an initiative within the Rietveld and Sandberg aiming to rebuild the space we hold within the school by nurturing our mixed community of students with a more inclusive and diverse approach.
Contact: latincaribbeangroup@gmail.com
The circle is a student body, which looks to deepen and complicate the role the student body plays within the Sandberg Instituut; whether in relation to the courses, the formal structures of the school, or, most importantly, in relation to each other. We aim to do this by supporting and programming peer to peer and student-led initiatives, by collating experiences and discussing issues that the students face, by promoting cross-course dialogue and by paying close attention to the social life of the institution. Importantly we look to do all of this at the level of the student body, instead of deferring to the administrative structures of the school.
Contact: Philip Coyne / student.circle.sandberg@gmail.com
The MR* is the participation council in which representatives of the staff and of the students are assembled.
The MR has fourteen seats of which seven are for student representation and seven for staff representation (teachers, workshops and administration). The MR deals with issues concerning the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut. It advises the Board of Directors on matters such as the quality of education, employment, diversity, budget, work pressure, and others.
The Board of Directors must ask the MR for its advice and, in some cases, its agreement upon a number of issues for which this agreement is legally required. The aim of the MR is to participate in the improvement of the quality of education at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut. It meets about eight times a year to discuss the matter at stake. The MR meetings are open to members of the academic community.
Addressing the MR or requesting information is possible by writing to mr@rietveldacademie.nl
* MR stands for ‘Medezeggenschapsraad’, or Participation Council.
The Student Support working group is formed by students, lecturers, and representatives from the Student Council and Unsettling, they focus on strengthening the position of the individual student in their personal well-being and resilience as a basic condition for studying through programming and additional support.
Contact: Judith Leysner / Juni Mun: studentsupport@rietveldacademie.nl
This is a government-required participation body within which students and teachers consult about the quality of education provided in their program (s) and its organization. The body advises on curricula design, quality control, and policy-making. The Rietveld and Sandberg have separate OCs, the latter is currently being established.
Contact: Christie Bakker: christie.bakker@rietveldacademie.nl (secretary of both Rietveld and Sandberg OCs).
Studium Generale is an extensive transdisciplinary theory programme that addresses students and faculty at all departments of the Rietveld. It follows a new research trajectory every year around a specific theme that links up with current events, issues, and discussions in the (art) world. Since 2014 Studium Generale teams up with Rietveld Uncut; departments and individual students develop projects in relation to the theoretical framework of Studium Generale.
Contact: studiumgenerale@rietveldacademie.nl
The Intracurricular Editorial Board aims to add an enriching (extra) layer of content, without supplanting regular education by stimulating interdisciplinary and trans-departmental cooperation through projects in which cooperation, self-organization, research, and new ways of working are central. The Editorial Board invites students, teachers, and workshop specialists of the Rietveld and Sandberg to team up for two semesters and create an education platform.
Contact: redactieraad@rietveldacademie.nl
PUB is a trans-departmental initiative funded by and run by students of the Sandberg Institute. Establishing a publishing practice at the University, PUB functions as a hub and a platform to identify interdisciplinary connections and accelerate collaborations amongst students, alumni, and third parties. PUB’s channels include radio, Tv, PUBcast, website, Type Lab, Journal, and publishing sessions.
Contact: PUB.sandberg@gmail.com
Radio Rietveld is a student-run platform that proliferates audio-based content from the GRA community and friends. Beyond broadcasting, the Radio serves as a transdisciplinary meeting space through physical and digital happenings. Steaming from radio.rietveldacademie.nl and uploading to Soundcloud. Currently run by Aske Hvitved, Bert McLean, and Helena Musillo. Formally run by Fernanda Barhumi and Oliver Feghali.
Contact: radio@rietveldacademie.nl
The Rietveld Pavilion is the student run project space of The Gerrit Rietveld Academie and The Sandberg Insituut. The Pavilion provides a platform for students and alumni to experiment, discuss, and learn by making use of the autonomous space. The aim of the pavilion is to keep the space active, alive and to bring students together to exchange ideas and to support them in collaborative projects.
This year the Rietveld Pavilion will be administrated by TheOffice, an interdisciplinary collaborative collective administered by Mariana Jurado Rico and George Mazari.
Contact: pavilion@rietveldacademie.nl
The Student Council was originally formed with representatives from student-organised initiatives within the school, but we are constantly looking for fresh minds to join us.
We want to engage and encourage students to play a more active role in shaping the school. Student voices are crucial! We see ourselves as a bridge connecting students, staff and teachers with information and resources. This school is not just an assemblage of individual makers, but a place where we care for one another. As a council, we want to lend a hand, share knowledge, and listen carefully.
Through our activities we want to cultivate an even ground for all students and work for greater transparency within the administrative structures of the institution.
We have written minutes of most of our meetings, feel free to ask.
Read our dolphinfesto/ statement of purpose here
The current members of Student Council are:
Pien Overing
(Fine Arts - Rietveld)
Catalina Reyes Navarro
(Resolution - Sandberg)
Jae Pil Eun
(Approaching Language - Sandberg)
Alcide Breaux
( Dirty Art - Sandberg)
Niam Madlani
( Graphic Design - Rietveld)
Stijn Verhoeff
(Advisor)
Sarah Arnolds
(Cordinator)
Student Council was started by these students in 2019
Boyan Montero, Eloïse Dieutegard, Eva Mahhov, Juni Mun, Luca Heydt, Oskar Frere Smith, Pedro Matias, Poppy Paulus-Nicolas, Nagaré Willemsen, Angela Jerardi
These are the members that continued
2019 - 2020
Eloïse Dieutegard
Eva Mahhov
Juni Mun
Luca Heydt
Oskar Frere Smith
Poppy Paulus-Nicolas
2020 - 2021
Emirhan Akin
Eva Mahhov
Juni Mun
Lila Bullen Smith
Luca Heydt
Vivian Mac Gillavry
2021
Bianca Millan Molinari
2021 - 2022
Catalina Reyes Navarro
Emirhan Akin
Jae Pil Eun
Lila Bullen-Smith
Pien Overing
2022-2023
Stella Dikmans
Niam Madlani
Alcide Breaux
Pien Overing
Catalina Reyes Navarro
Jae Pil Eun
Angela Jerardi (Advisor)
Sarah Arnolds (Coordinator)
DRG
In daily life at the Rietveld Academie, departments can feel like separate continents. Only through whispers that get carried over the ocean you find out what is going on at the other sides. Instead of bridges, we want to create the primal continent Pangea at Rietveld, a big collective mess that gains strength through its interconnectedness. Read the drg womanifesto here.
Can Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut become radically inclusive structures? An intra-curricular initiative is working actively between and beyond the structures and discourses of the academy to unsettle the Rietveld and Sandberg from the roots up, supporting existing initiatives, while also developing outreach programs, drawing in new perspectives, and making the context of the academy more inclusive to other voices, minds, and bodies. In 2018, Unsettling Rietveld Sandberg began working towards a policy on inclusion and diversity in the academy.
Contact: Judith Leysner, Tracian Meikle
/ unsettling@rietveldacademie.nl
Manifested in 2018, Asian Union was born in seeking to broaden the boundaries of limitation that derive from the misconceptions of Asian Cultures in the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut. Though there are many different connotations per individual background with the term Asian, we do and welcome everyone who defines themselves as “Asian”. There are ongoing weekly meetings during the semester, conducted online and offline.
Contact: Juni Mun
/ augrasi.ve@gmail.com
The Black Student Union (USB) is an organization aiming to facilitate and support a network of Black students, alumni, and partners of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut.
Contact: Nagare Willemsen
/ blackstudentunion.usb@gmail.com
Near East Union consists of people from Middle East or people with Middle Eastern roots to recalibrate the compass to understand: middle of what and whose east? NEU aims to start a discussion about Non- European people’s situations in Sandberg Institute and Gerrit Rietveld Academy. NEU wants to bring its members together to share their experiences in their new life, and find out common strategies from the common struggles. NEU welcomes all who have something to say about being a Middle Eastern within the frameworks of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and Sandberg Institute.
Contact: Emirhan Akin / neareastunion@gmail.com
The LCU is an initiative within the Rietveld and Sandberg aiming to rebuild the space we hold within the school by nurturing our mixed community of students with a more inclusive and diverse approach.
Contact: latincaribbeangroup@gmail.com
The circle is a student body, which looks to deepen and complicate the role the student body plays within the Sandberg Instituut; whether in relation to the courses, the formal structures of the school, or, most importantly, in relation to each other. We aim to do this by supporting and programming peer to peer and student-led initiatives, by collating experiences and discussing issues that the students face, by promoting cross-course dialogue and by paying close attention to the social life of the institution. Importantly we look to do all of this at the level of the student body, instead of deferring to the administrative structures of the school.
Contact: Philip Coyne / student.circle.sandberg@gmail.com
The MR* is the participation council in which representatives of the staff and of the students are assembled.
The MR has fourteen seats of which seven are for student representation and seven for staff representation (teachers, workshops and administration). The MR deals with issues concerning the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut. It advises the Board of Directors on matters such as the quality of education, employment, diversity, budget, work pressure, and others.
The Board of Directors must ask the MR for its advice and, in some cases, its agreement upon a number of issues for which this agreement is legally required. The aim of the MR is to participate in the improvement of the quality of education at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut. It meets about eight times a year to discuss the matter at stake. The MR meetings are open to members of the academic community.
Addressing the MR or requesting information is possible by writing to mr@rietveldacademie.nl
* MR stands for ‘Medezeggenschapsraad’, or Participation Council.
The Student Support working group is formed by students, lecturers, and representatives from the Student Council and Unsettling, they focus on strengthening the position of the individual student in their personal well-being and resilience as a basic condition for studying through programming and additional support.
Contact: Judith Leysner / Juni Mun: studentsupport@rietveldacademie.nl
This is a government-required participation body within which students and teachers consult about the quality of education provided in their program (s) and its organization. The body advises on curricula design, quality control, and policy-making. The Rietveld and Sandberg have separate OCs, the latter is currently being established.
Contact: Christie Bakker: christie.bakker@rietveldacademie.nl (secretary of both Rietveld and Sandberg OCs).
Studium Generale is an extensive transdisciplinary theory programme that addresses students and faculty at all departments of the Rietveld. It follows a new research trajectory every year around a specific theme that links up with current events, issues, and discussions in the (art) world. Since 2014 Studium Generale teams up with Rietveld Uncut; departments and individual students develop projects in relation to the theoretical framework of Studium Generale.
Contact: studiumgenerale@rietveldacademie.nl
The Intracurricular Editorial Board aims to add an enriching (extra) layer of content, without supplanting regular education by stimulating interdisciplinary and trans-departmental cooperation through projects in which cooperation, self-organization, research, and new ways of working are central. The Editorial Board invites students, teachers, and workshop specialists of the Rietveld and Sandberg to team up for two semesters and create an education platform.
Contact: redactieraad@rietveldacademie.nl
PUB is a trans-departmental initiative funded by and run by students of the Sandberg Institute. Establishing a publishing practice at the University, PUB functions as a hub and a platform to identify interdisciplinary connections and accelerate collaborations amongst students, alumni, and third parties. PUB’s channels include radio, Tv, PUBcast, website, Type Lab, Journal, and publishing sessions.
Contact: PUB.sandberg@gmail.com
Radio Rietveld is a student-run platform that proliferates audio-based content from the GRA community and friends. Beyond broadcasting, the Radio serves as a transdisciplinary meeting space through physical and digital happenings. Steaming from radio.rietveldacademie.nl and uploading to Soundcloud. Currently run by Aske Hvitved, Bert McLean, and Helena Musillo. Formally run by Fernanda Barhumi and Oliver Feghali.
Contact: radio@rietveldacademie.nl
The Rietveld Pavilion is the student run project space of The Gerrit Rietveld Academie and The Sandberg Insituut. The Pavilion provides a platform for students and alumni to experiment, discuss, and learn by making use of the autonomous space. The aim of the pavilion is to keep the space active, alive and to bring students together to exchange ideas and to support them in collaborative projects.
This year the Rietveld Pavilion will be administrated by TheOffice, an interdisciplinary collaborative collective administered by Mariana Jurado Rico and George Mazari.
Contact: pavilion@rietveldacademie.nl
