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Mapping Learning Reflects on RISD’s Essence
Mapping Learning, a series of public talks and workshops reflecting on RISD’s core mission, has been stimulating dialogue among students, faculty and staff this fall.
Seeing Science: NSF Backs RISD Research
For the last year, a consortium of nine Rhode Island colleges and universities—including RISD, Brown and the University of Rhode Island (URI)—has been engaged in a joint, multiyear project to investigate the impact of climate change on marine life.
Inventive Tools Spark Innovative Designs
Every fall, as RISD’s newest students begin the creative rite of passage known asFoundation Studies, they tackle a series of three-dimensional design challenges in theirSpatial Dynamics studios.
Seller Lets Loose
In Letting Loose, her latest solo show, neosurrealist painter Wendy Seller, an assistant professor in Foundation Studies, moves beyond her signature style to create intriguing collages.
Reimagining Household Chores
Students in Architecture, Foundation Studies, Industrial Design and Interior and Landscape Architecture participated in a series of special interdisciplinary courses focused on a future in which gadgets and machines help ease the burden of household chores.
Students Design for Clad In
Intricate folded-paper sculpture created by students inPamela Unwin-Barkley’s Spatial Dynamics Foundation studios go on display tomorrow atClad In, a designer clothing shop in Providence’s Wayland Square.
Eclectic Obsessions in ‘What She Saw’
Lately, artist Amy Goodwin 87 ID has been obsessed with an eclectic set of things she sums up as “roses, gardens, campfires and rabbits.
Hats Off to Foundation Students
More than a dozen Foundation students mixed and mingled at the opening of the 2012 Foundation Studies Triennial Exhibition at Woods-Gerry Gallery wearing the “extreme” hats they completed just last month.
RISD Appoints Interim Academic Leadership
Rhode Island School of Design has tapped three RISD alumni, professors and department heads for key leadership positions for next academic year.