About Academic and Creative Partnerships

In Academic and Creative Partnerships, our team aims to embody and advance RISD’s mission by supporting students and faculty in expanding their practices via external collaboration.

In Academic and Creative Partnerships, our team develops interdependent collaborations with strong values at their core. These partnerships take many forms, but in every instance we seek out and work with organizations who share our principles, commitments and collaborative spirit.

Our partners:

• value mutual trust, sustainability and growth.
• have a demonstrated commitment to practices of social equity and inclusion.
• respect RISD’s identity, pedagogy and brand.
• commit resources to RISD in the form of time, personnel, ideas, equipment, funds or knowledge.
• have clear and innovative research questions and goals.