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Students spent three weeks learning from local experts and engaging in lab experiments before presenting final concepts.

Half a century ago, Marc Harrison built a prototype for a home that would accommodate people of all ages and abilities. Now his daughter has restored it.
 

RISD students and recent alums are using funding from RISD Research to develop interdisciplinary projects with communities around the world.

RISD students and recent grads are using design thinking skills to support positive change in Africa, Asia and North and South America.

Seven artists and designers will advance cross-cultural dialogue across Europe and Asia during the 2022–23 academic year.  

Students are exploring European cultural and design traditions this summer in Denmark, France, Italy and the Azores.

A spring studio offered through RISD’s Center for Complexity offers fresh ideas for Rhode Island’s harm reduction center pilot program.

An interdisciplinary design studio at the Rhode Island School of Design is looking at how harm reduction centers can take a more holistic approach to addiction.

Providence-based dance company Haus of Glitter speaks at RISD about using an activist dance opera to transform a racist national historic site.