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  • Designs to Make a Difference

    05/10/2011
    As the first RISD student to win the highly coveted Gensler Diversity Scholarship, Nathalie Jolivert BArch 12 hopes to gain valuable architectural experience to bring home to Haiti after graduation.

  • Building a Better Buggy: RISD Students Reach for the Moon

    04/01/2011
    On April 1-2, a team of six RISD students participated in this year’s NASA Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, AL, competing against teams from nearly 90 schools and colleges to design, build and race lightweight, human-powered vehicles over lunar-like terrain.

  • Creativity Cubed

    03/29/2011
    Professors Markus Berger and Peter Dean lead a collaborative triad between RISD, Brown University and a team of RISD alumni in thinking outside the box – or in this case, redesigning the box entirely to creatively repurpose shipping containers.

  • Responding to Natural Disasters

    03/23/2011
    The RISD community came together on March 22 to consider the triple disaster in Japan and the role artists and designers can play in helping people to process and recover from this type of event.

  • The State of the Art in Healthcare

    03/22/2011
    Nearly 500 policymakers, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, activists, academics, artists and designers came together at RISD for Make It Better, a two-day symposium that envisioned new and evolving roles for artists and designers in solving complex healthcare challenges.

  • Seduced by Sugar

    03/11/2011
    Alumna Melissa Armstrong’s latest rock candy sculpture is on view through April 8 in a show called Science is Fiction.

  • Sustainable Design in Six Minutes or Less

    03/11/2011
    Drew Beam 99 IL, Dawn Danby 00 ID and Eric Smith 94 GD are working together to create a series of entertaining educational videos that outline the principles of sustainable design and construction.

  • Reaching New Heights of Creativity

    03/09/2011
    RISD alumnus Kenneth Lewis BArch 83 returned to campus to talk about the creativity and the challenges that went into redesigning and rebuilding the World Trade Center site in New York.

  • The Very Picture of Good Health

    02/25/2011
    A RISD Wintersession class brought together students and policymakers to explore how art and design can communicate public policy around healthcare reform. For example, this bus stop rendering is an example of how design thinking can be used to reach out to Rhode Island’s Latino community.

  • Making Art Work

    02/14/2011
    Rhode Island and RISD serve as the launching pad for a national conversation about the role of the arts in the creative economy.

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RISD has a long history of offering Saturday and after-school classes for children and teens, as this photo from c. 1910 confirms.