Upcoming Events

Please join us for the first in the Heterogeneous Constructions lecture series. This event will feature a conversation between artist Marlon de Azambuja and architect and historian Jesús Vassallo, moderated by RISD Architecture faculty Aaron Forrest and Brett Schneider and Harvard GSD faculty Yasmin Vobis. The Heterogeneous Constructions series explores ideas and practices that challenge contemporary conventions around architectural materials, bringing together leading thinkers and makers from a range of disciplines. The series is funded by the RISD Architecture Design Research Seed Fund. Marlon de Azambuja was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1978. He studied at the Edilson Viriato Center for Contemporary Art in Curitiba, Brazil. He currently lives and works in Madrid. Jesús Vassallo is a Spanish architect and writer, and currently an associate professor at Rice University. His work focuses on the problem of realism in architecture through the production of design and scholarship. He is the author of Seamless: Digital Collage and Dirty Realism in Contemporary Architecture (Park Books, 2016), and Epics in the Everyday: Photography, Architecture and the Problem of Realism (Park Books, 2019). His articles have been published internationally in magazines such as El Croquis, AA Files, 2G, Log, Harvard Design Magazine, Domus, or Arquitectura Viva.

The Digital + Media department presents a talk by Ivan Puig (b. 1977, Mexico), whose work is precipitated by indignation and wonder and is connected by the critical perspective and humor present in his observations about society. Puig is concerned with the time-consuming collateral activities related to the professionalization of art.

RISD’s Center for Student Involvement and the RISD Museum welcome artist/activist Malene Barnett, an authority on the cultural traditions and practices of art in the African diaspora and how it translates into the modern Black experience. Barnett will discuss care for the self and the community.