Life After RISD is an ongoing series featuring alumni making outsized impact in culture and industry. Stay tuned for more ...

Moderated by Provost Touba Ghadessi and Assistant Provost Margot Nishimura, panelists discussed the role of artists and ...

Art and Computation and Sound—the new department focuses on networks and simulation, computational art making, and coding ...

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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 ...

RISD’s History of Industrial Design course has long been a rite of passage for Industrial Design sophomores. “You can’t teach the history of industrial design without discussing the history of ...

“We have to do a better job of considering the human in human space flight,” says retired NASA astronaut Nicole Stott. “When you travel to space, you’re not just working but living there, too. If ...

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 ...

Since 2021, the Maharam Fellowship has supported RISD students interested in summer internships with local and global organizations focused on social justice and/or sustainability. Launched in 2012 ...

This summer more than 400 RISD students are working as paid interns across the US and beyond—designing digital furniture models, helping develop knitwear lines, illustrating digital gaming worlds and ...