Rosa te Velde is a theory tutor at the Master Industrial Design. She is a researcher, designer, and educator, and has worked with the Research Centre for Material Culture/Wereldmuseum, Sandberg Instituut and ArtEZ, among other institutions.
Rosa studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and holds an MA in Design Cultures from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her work has been shaped by the Decolonial Summer School (2016), led by Rolando Vázquez and Walter Mignolo, and she edited Vázquez’s Vistas of Modernity: Decolonial Aesthesis and the End of the Contemporary (2020).
From 2022 to 2024, she was Associate Lector in Social Justice and Diversity in the Arts at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. Alongside her research, she maintains a strong interest in making and is an aspiring weaver.
At Master Industrial Design (MID), Rosa supervises student research projects, with a particular passion for design history, climate and social justice, communal and participatory practices, and crafts. Previously, Rosa taught at the BA Interior Architecture and Furniture Design and the academy-wide course Research & Discourse. She is currently also a member of the KABK Study Programme Committee.
Selected projects:
- Recall/Recalibrate, on design and ‘ethical imperialism’ in Dutch-occupied Indonesia (2025)
- Re)searching for Transformations: Two Years of Social Justice and Diversity in the Arts (2024)
- Tuning in!, a protest choir and research project exploring ‘embodied community’ (2023)
- Exhibition design for Acknowledge Rebuild: Wunderkammers of Rotterdam’s Colonial Past at Kunsthal Rotterdam (2023)
- Drafting Futures, Remembering a Building, commissioned by de Appel, on segregation and gentrification in Amsterdam Nieuw-West (2021)
- Design Research Research, a MID publication on ‘design research’ (2021)