News and Events
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Upcoming events
Furniture Design and Interior Architecture welcome South African scenographer and costume designer Nthabiseng Malaka, who currently works at the Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg. Her work recently appeared in Disney’s The Magic Box and in Berlin’s Komische Oper.
The Architecture department welcomes the co-founder of the Portugal- and Switzerland-based firm fala, who will discuss collective housing as a continuous field of investigation.
The Glass department welcomes Katherine Bergeron and Butch Rovan, aka Chalumeau, the passion project of two unconventional music professors that mixes blues, jazz, and rock & roll.
RISD news
From tiny pieces of furniture to mini fortune teller machines, students are creating worlds that can extend illustration into three-dimensional, interactive forms.
The new required elective is part of a campus-wide initiative to amplify historically underrepresented ways of making, learning, and knowing.
Students in an interdepartmental architecture “superstudio” are exploring climate impact, affordability, regenerative design, and economic resilience in Maine.
The MacArthur Award-winning painter discusses his journey to RISD, the importance of drawing every day, and his ongoing quest to tell stories that matter.