Gerrit Rietveld Academie is an art and design academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands, offering a four-year bachelor’s programme in Art and Design. Within that broad structure, designLAB treats design as a critical and experimental practice rather than a conventional industrial design course.
Students work through research, material exploration, conceptual development, critique, and open-studio making, with progress assessed through written evaluations rather than traditional grades. Related study in architectural and inter-architecture contexts can extend toward furniture and spatial objects, supported by wood, metal, and digital fabrication workshops.
