Student Stories
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First- and second-year MFA students simultaneously present two distinctive approaches to exhibiting fine art.
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Students in a fall Digital + Media research studio use high- and low-tech tools to explore the changing Narragansett Bay and develop creative research projects.
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RISD students test ideas about art and pedagogy by working directly with local teenagers.
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Fast Company reports on Interior Architecture department project focused on reimagining Rhode Island’s Pell Bridge.
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The fall 2021 semester gets underway with student move-in, orientation activities and an inspiring livestreamed Convocation event.
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Interior Architecture sophomores work with community developer I. Lanre Ajakaiye on plans to transform a blighted Providence building into a multicultural gathering place.
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The Newport Daily News reports on Crossing the Pell project created by Interior Architecture graduate students in the spring.
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A multidisciplinary team builds on research conducted in the spring linking advanced technologies, public environments and personal experience.
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RISD Interior Architecture students propose innovative designs for adding pedestrian and cycling lanes to the suspension bridge connecting Newport and Jamestown, RI.