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  • Analog Analysis: To Digital or Not to Digital

    01/20/2011
    President John Maeda talks about sandpit psychotherapy and the pros and cons of digitized discourse.

  • Turner Turns to Water Wars

    01/11/2011
    In his most recent documentary, producer and director of photography Rhett Turner 98 PH probes an ongoing battle over water rights in the American Southeast.

  • Big Sky in the Big City

    12/21/2010
     A design by Jen Magathan MFA 09 GD is helping to add visual interest to a construction site in New York City.

  • Exploring New Materials

    12/15/2010
    At the 2010 A Better World by Design conference, Professor Seth Stem led a workshop focused on the design potential of working with environmentally friendly natural fiber composites.

  • PARACRAFT Reveals Surprising Connections

    12/14/2010
    The annual English Department exhibition offers a compelling look at the many ways in which literary study and studio work come together at RISD.

  • RISD Alumni Win 2010 USA Fellowships

    12/13/2010
     Two RISD alumni are among the 52 artists nationwide selected for prestigious 2010 fellowships from the United States Artists foundation.

  • Martin Mull Witnesses the “Madness”

    12/07/2010
    In Witness, his most recent solo show, painter, actor and RISD alum Martin Mull reflects on his memories of the long-gone “picture-perfect” America of the 1950s and ’60s.

  • Appreciating the Ancient Art of Creativity

    12/06/2010
    Furniture Design senior and HAVC concentrator Adam Hyman is a natural when it comes to researching and helping to conserve works of ancient art at the RISD Museum.

  • Helping Astronauts to Manage Info Overload

    11/30/2010
    When working to develop the Magic Windows communication project for NASA, students sought to simplify the manner in which astronauts receive and navigate massive amounts of information.

  • Exquisite Visual Treat

    11/29/2010
    In The Exquisite Book, a lush new picture book for adults, alumni Matt Lamothe, Julia Rothman and Jenny Volvovski invited 100 of their favorite contemporary artists to play a collaborative spin-off of a classic surrealist drawing game.

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The façade of the Chace Center, a new multipurpose hub that opened
in 2008, offers an interesting contrast to the historic campus
buildings that surround it.