Where Art + Business Meet

webmaster@risd.edu — Wed, 01 May 2013 12:24:21 GMT

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.

xDesign

webmaster@risd.edu — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:15:49 GMT

As an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School, RISD alum Jonathan Arena 09 GD has organized the first-ever Harvard xDesign conference.

Researching the Passive Solar Solution

webmaster@risd.edu — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:01:57 GMT

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

Inquiry in Italy

webmaster@risd.edu — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:45:40 GMT

Students who take part in the European Honors Program are given the freedom to pursue their academic interests while living in a country that has inspired artists for centuries.

Clean Water for Urban Slums

webmaster@risd.edu — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:48:57 GMT

In a venture called WaterWalla, RISD and Brown students are working to bring clean water to slum dwellers in the developing world.

Creating Sustainable Solutions in Central America

webmaster@risd.edu — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:36:16 GMT

RISD students developed a prototype off-the-grid schoolhouse for rural Costa Rica in collaboration with Earth University – the world's foremost research institute for sustainable agriculture.

St. Florian studio

webmaster@risd.edu — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:21:23 GMT

Architecture ProfessorEmeritus Friedrich St. Florian led an advanced urban design studio to reimagine a vital intersection of downtown Providence.

Designing a Sustainable Campus in Costa Rica

webmaster@risd.edu — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:28:34 GMT

Students work with Earth University to plan a new campus tailored to local needs, climate and terrain.

Rockport and Supima tap RISD talent

webmaster@risd.edu — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:09:19 GMT

From cotton to candy, Apparel Design students created eye-catching designs for two industry-sponsored competitions in conjunction with New York Fashion Week.

Gathering STEAM in Rhode Island

webmaster@risd.edu — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:11:49 GMT

On September 26, artists, designers, scientists, educators, business leaders and policymakers came together to celebrate Rhode Island’s leadership role in advocating for the role of art and design in fostering innovation.

Artists Seeking Science

webmaster@risd.edu — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:36:20 GMT

Students are showing a huge interest in RISD’s growing science curriculum, which allows them to explore the many ways art, design and science inform and enhance each other.

Reimagining Medical Communications

webmaster@risd.edu — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:47:53 GMT

In the spring studio Communicating Medical Risk, Brown undergraduates teamed up with RISD art and design majors to look at better ways of disseminating medical information.

Painting What the Eye Can’t See

webmaster@risd.edu — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:55:43 GMT

While studying at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Lab (MBL), Lizzie Kripke 14 PT created a cutting-edge animation that allows scientists to visualize complex skin structures in ways previously unseen.

Clay in Context at Hope High

webmaster@risd.edu — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:48:21 GMT

In a collaboration that reflects RISD’s commitment to critical making and community engagement, students in Ceramics and TLAD worked with local teens to create new tile murals for Providence's Hope High School.

STEAM Club Mixes Art and Science

webmaster@risd.edu — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:45:17 GMT

A series of workshops linking RISD and the MIT Media Lab has set the stage for this month's CreativeMornings “pop-up” event at RISD, part of an international conversation on the intersection of arts and technology.

Full STEAM Ahead

webmaster@risd.edu — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:22:53 GMT

As part of SmART Schools, a research-based K–12 reform initiative, Industrial Design faculty member Amy Leidtke is leading two mini-institutes this spring to help Rhode Island math and science teachers incorporate art and design into their lesson plans.

Home of the Future

webmaster@risd.edu — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:25:07 GMT

For the Solar Pavilion Collaborative Research Project, RISD and Brown researchers are working with Viessmann Manufacturing Company to build a small demonstration structure powered by a thermal electric system.

RISD/Brown Collaboration Celebrates Cunningham

webmaster@risd.edu — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:01:49 GMT

Working with costume design professionals on RISD’s faculty, Apparel Design students became part of the late Merce Cunningham’s legacy when they designed the dancers’ costumes for MinEvent: A Cunningham Collaboration.

Maeda Brings STEAM to MIT

webmaster@risd.edu — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:56:27 GMT

RISD President John Maeda and a number of RISD students, faculty members and trustees visited Maeda’s former academic home at the MIT Media Lab to speak about RISD’s STEM to STEAM initiative.

Alum’s Neurotic Machines at Bell Gallery

webmaster@risd.edu — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:17:55 GMT

Quirky kinetic sculpture by Meridith Pingree MFA 03 SC injects a visceral immediacy to the work in a group show at Brown University’s David Winton Bell Gallery.