Orature, or oral storytelling, places a strong emphasis on performative techniques that come to life most effectively when conveyed through both spoken and non-verbal means within a live social ...

“Since this is probably the last opportunity I’ll have to design furniture completely outside the frame of historical context, I wanted to take advantage of that freedom and create a knock-down table ...

Modeled on our EFS curriculum, this one-semester program for first-year students is a unique, immersive option for students beginning their RISD journey.

Modeled on our EFS curriculum, this one-semester program for first-year students is a unique, immersive option for students beginning their RISD journey.

Critical to the Sustainability Design Lab (SDL)—and RISD’s overall creative culture—the studio is where students question and pick apart conventional approaches to design, and direct new ways of ...

“Mixer … misher?” Senior Phillip Walker 25 PT bursts out laughing and pays the price for his mistake by taking a lap around the circle of students assembled in ...

Two RISD teams have been named winners in the Terra Carta Design Lab competition, which challenges students and recent alums to design high-impact solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises: ...

Students in a fall Ceramics studio are exploring various industry techniques developed to enable mass production, including molding, casting, RAM pressing, extruding and wheel throwing. Led by ...

Modeled on our EFS curriculum, this one-semester program for first-year students is a unique, immersive option for students beginning their RISD journey.

For the duration of the degree program, Art and Computation majors take core studios alongside their peers in the Computation, Technology and Culture (CTC) department’s Sound BFA program (one per ...

Students applying for first-year admission must have received a high school diploma or its equivalent prior to the fall in which they would begin study. Students who have completed college coursework ...

Artists and designers play a key role in building more democratic and equitable societies. RISD’s culture of civic engagement strives to promote healthy discourse and proactive, ethical action ...