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  • Researching the Passive Solar Solution

    10/21/2010
    RISD’s Interior Architecture Department has partnered with Brown University’s Center for Environmental Studies to further research passive solar applications in architecture.

  • Students Build a Simpler, Greener Car

    10/21/2010
    In the Out of Gas! studio, students from RISD and Brown worked together to develop the Coda, an energy-efficient three-wheeler designed for urban commuters.

  • RISD’s Moonbuggy Stands Out

    10/21/2010
    RISD was the first art and design school ever to enter NASA’s Great Moonbuggy Race, an annual competition sponsored by the US Space & Rocket Center.

  • No Moon Dust Allowed!

    10/21/2010
    Industrial Design students complete a summer internship focused on designing an airlock system to keep potentially harmful moon dust outside of astronauts’ living quarters.

  • Where Art + Business Meet

    10/21/2010
    This long-running R+D collaboration pairs RISD students with MBA candidates from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Babson College in pursuit of new products and business models.

  • Designing the Ultimate User-Friendly Kitchen

    10/21/2010
    Maytag partnered with RISD in a high-profile studio to rethink ease of access and use in the contemporary kitchen.

  • Reimagining Household Chores

    10/21/2010
    To usher in the new millennium, Maytag sponsored a series of interdisciplinary studios focused on generating new ideas about home appliances.

  • Brown + RISD: Improving Transportation in Developing Economies

    10/21/2010
    RISD designers and Brown University engineers are working together to develop eMotive, a cost-effective, energy-efficient vehicle designed to address transportation problems in the developing world.

  • Bamboo Design Initiative

    10/21/2010
    RISD and the Environmental Bamboo Foundation in Bali, Indonesia, engaged in a multi-year partnership to explore innovative uses and applications of bamboo—a research venture that proved the true value of this amazing renewable resource.

  • Moving Up at Pixar

    10/21/2010
    Animator Scott Clark ’96 IL has been at Pixar since the beginning, helping the studio to become a leader in the entertainment industry.

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At RISD there's nothing unusual about suddenly finding a doorknob on a tree trunk, shown here across from Carr House,
the charming home of Student Life offices and the student-run Carr Haus Café.