Student Stories

Students conducted research and proposed monuments for College Hill that commemorate the past while reinterpreting symbols of collective memory. 

The alum and designer of the classic Cubebot toy robot worked with first-year students in a Wintersession studio focused on iteration and simplicity.

The class studied inlay, overlay, and engraving processes, reimagining the relationship between the functional and the ornamental.

Students considered how sound can serve as a spatial and experiential medium, guiding attention, shifting atmosphere, and provoking new forms of encounter.

Please Catch Me When I Fall, curated by RISD students Karma Johnson, Khalil McKnight, and King Meulens, highlights joy, vulnerability, and the many stories to be told about the Black experience.

Working collaboratively, students are designing and building exhibits in preparation for an immersive show in the Center for Integrative Technologies.

Graduate students selected for the Society of Presidential Fellows are pushing creative boundaries as architects, sculptors, industrial designers, painters, textile artists, and global scholars.

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.

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