Stories about studios + projects
Redesigning Environmentalism
Ian Quate MLA 11 is helping to redefine landscape architecture through an interdisciplinary research project focused on cleaning up Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal.
Restoring RI’s Coastal Waters
Students in Landscape Architecture and Sculpture joined an interdisciplinary team of designers and scientists to install sculptural reefs along a waterway at India Point Park in Providence.
Critical Design Can Change the World
In early May members of the RISD and Brown communities came together to share thoughts at the second annual Critical Design/Critical Futures symposium.
Art for People
Public arts administrator Liesel Fenner MLA 98 collaborates with artists to transform and revitalize once-ignored public spaces.
Sheltering Shellfish in the City
RI Youth Conservation League volunteers help RISD grad students make habitats for species known to improve coastal water quality.
Establishing Shellfish Habitats
A team of RI educators is preparing to test sculptural forms designed to attract marine life in the waters off India Point Park.
Confronting Climate Change
Students in a cross-disciplinary spring studio dream up designs for a proposed Museum of Climate Change in Manhattan.
Land and Sea
Landscape Architecture students work across disciplines to find sustainable solutions to problems associated with Rhode Island’s coastline.
Designing Healthy Communities
Architects, designers, researchers and policy makers discuss strategies for initiating change and rethinking America’s unhealthiest neighborhoods.