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Student Showcase: Willem de Kooning Academy
 

 

The Unstable Ground
Student: Eva Garibaldi
Photo by Chaira Catalini 2021

Collective project, MIARD archive v2.0

In 2018, on a wintery February morning in Rotterdam, the first version of the MIARD digital archive was launched publicly. The project was conceived as an archival space to document the practice-based research of our students. Today, our commitment to the archive as an “active assembly of materials” continues, with nearly 300 projects and 1,500 documents. The collection varies in media and format and chronicles the exploration of spatial research practices. It has grown into a critical resource and pedagogical device for spatial research—embodying a collective, emergent tone in dialogue with the real-time production within the programme.

“The archive in this way can be understood as something that is alive and that happens live rather something that is static.”
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About MIARD Master Interior Architecture: Research + Design, MIARD at the Piet Zwart Institute is a post-graduate international program that is part of the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. MIARD is a two-year multidisciplinary programme with a focus on practice-based research and critical spatial strategies in the field of interior architecture.