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Architecture faculty members Jonathan Knowles and Laura Briggs are working with students to design and build a butterfly pavilion on an organic farm in Ponta Delgada.

The Levantine interior designer discusses her love of craft and collaboration and how her style combines Asian and Middle Eastern influences to reflect a modern Arab identity.

From Apparel Design to Textiles, campus hummed with innovative approaches and generative discussions the week before the winter break. 

Film/Animation/Video students presented their final projects in December, considering such aspects as camera angle, composition, pacing, and framing.

Spanning Architecture and Industrial Design, the fall course builds on cutting-edge atmospheric water-generating technology. 

New grants totaling over $1.6 million fund the study of everything from inclusive research approaches to carbon exchange in the Antarctic’s Southern Ocean to automated 3D textile manufacturing.

RISD alums Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo and Sasha Gordon make the 2026 Art & Style list, and Pave Robotics, co-founded by Mason Landon Smith, is included in the Manufacturing & Industry category.

Nearly two dozen first-year students began their college journey immersed in Italian culture.