Rietveld Alumni
INDEX
Names of departments

The Index goes all the way back to the class of 1968, this is the year the school became part of the higher professional education system and was given the status of an Academy for Fine Arts and Design. More about the history of the academy can be read here.

Over the years many departments changed their names and some departments ceased to exist. We chose to use the current and/or last departmental names for the Index.

Below you will find an overview of names of departments and how they merged.

Full-time

— Architectural Design
Architectural Design / Inter Architecture / Interior Architecture / Interior art and furniture / Interior Architecture and Furniture design / Architectonische Vormgeving / Binnenhuisarchitectuur / Meubelkunst / Meubelontwerpen / Architect / Interieurontwerpen

— Ceramics
Ceramics / Keramiek / Keramische vormgeving

— designLAB
designLAB / Industrial Design / Industriële vormgeving / Product design 

— Jewellery - Linking Bodies
Jewellery – Linking Bodies / Edelsmeden / Jewellery / Het Sieraad / Precious Matter / Vormgeving in metalen en kunststoffen

— Fashion
Fashion / Mode / Modevormgeving

— Fine Arts
Fine Arts / Beeldende Kunst / Tekenen, Schilderen, Grafiek / Vrije richting / Autonoom sculptuur  / Beeldhouwen / Plastische vormgeving / Grafiek / Grafiek en schilderen / Tekenen/Schilderen/Grafiek / experimentele werkgroep / werkgroep Grafiek

— The Large Glass department
The Large Glass department / Glass / Glas vormgeving / Glas design / Glas / glaswerkgroep

— Graphic Design
Graphic Design / Grafisch Ontwerpen / Grafische vormgeving

— Illustration
Illustration / Illustratie

— Image & Language
Image & Language / Beeld en taal / Tekst en Beeld / Text & Image / Schrijven 

— Individual Study Programme
Individual trajectories / Individual Study Programme / Individueel studiepakket

— Fine Arts & Design in Education
Lerarenopleiding / Beeldende vorming

— Monumental Design
Monumental Design / Monumentale vormgeving / Werkgroep Monumentaal

— Photography
Photography / Fotografie / Fotografische vormgeving

— TXT
TXT (Textile) / TXT (Textile Text Context) / Textile design / Textiel en typografie / Textiel vormgeving - TXT (Textiel Tactiel Theorie) / tricotagewerkgroep

— Theatre design
Theatre design / Theatervormgeving & Art Direction

— VAV - moving image
VAV - moving image / Voorheen Audiovisueel (VAV) / Audiovisual / Audio-Visueel / werkgroep audiovisueel team

Part-time

— DOGtime Expanded Painting
DOGtime Expanded Painting / DOGtime Fine Arts / Avondopleiding schilderen, tekenen, grafiek / Vrije grafiek deeltijd

— DOGtime Unstable Media
DOGtime Unstable Media / DOGtime Interaction Design Unstable Media (IDUM) / Multimedia Design

More info about the Rietveld departments here.