Hands-on fall studios encourage students to incorporate contemporary technologies and platforms into their evolving creative ...

Fall 2025 Regeneration Studio focuses on biomimicry research in structures, materials, mechanisms, and interfaces.

Students are using such techniques as silkscreening and block printing to transform blank clay canvases into unique and ...

Students traveled to Ocean Hour Farm in Newport, RI as part of their yearlong investigation into earth-friendly materials ...

“My people have been written out of Rhode Island history for so long,” says Indigenous artist Lynsea Montanari (Narragansett). “I hope that people finally begin to see us because of this mural.” ...

Spring 2025 marked the return of in-person adult art classes offered by RISD’s Continuing Ed division after a five-year, pandemic-related pause. Although virtual and long-distance learning is still ...

Where does perceived value come from and how do we as a society move from an extractive/zero-sum mindset into a more generative one inspired by nature? The question was posed by RISD alum Charlotte ...

Recently hired Assistant Professors of Architecture Malcolm Rio MArch 15 and Germán Pallares-Avitia are co-teaching Rethinking Modernity and Modern Architecture, a fall seminar exploring how the 19th- ...

How can we apply the strategies we observe in the natural world to our own design research? Why have the characteristics of living creatures evolved in the ways that they have? These are the kinds of ...

This fall, the Center for Complexity (CfC) curated Gateways into the Polycene, an exhibition on view in 20 Washington Place that challenges staff and faculty members to consider creative alternatives ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a $4 million Equitable Nature-Based Climate Solutions (ENACTS) grant for a four-year stormwater management project that will be conducted ...