CCP News
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Current students Jacob Sussman and Valerie Mirra discuss the impact of the lab’s founding principles on their creative practices.
![A series of red, white and blue postcards designed by Jose Menendez MFA 17 GD](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2022-08/DSCF2197.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=kLZLKeHR)
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Emily Vogler and alum José R. Menéndez are bringing communities together through the Blackstone River Commons.
![Project Open Door student painting in the Steel Yard](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2022-08/PODCeramicsNicolePaints.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=WCy9uvxb)
Project Open Door students are back on campus this summer, trying their hands at everything from textiles to toy design in long-running RISD program.
![Painting of Block Island grass and evening sky by Ireoluwatoni Asojo BRDD 26 IL](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2022-07/22BIXIcon.jpg?h=2e3eca71&itok=-63TM1BS)
Students examine a local island habitat through the lenses of environmental justice and Indigenous perspectives.
![rendering of harm reduction center featuring natural light](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2022-06/CfcSunRenderingHero.jpg?h=badc8c3f&itok=BilxoHZA)
A spring studio offered through RISD’s Center for Complexity offers fresh ideas for Rhode Island’s harm reduction center pilot program.
![collage rendering of RI State House](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2022-06/StateHouseHeroREAL.jpg?h=757d62c5&itok=1mSpWUl6)
Graduate students in Interior Architecture present visions for transforming Rhode Island’s State House and the surrounding grounds into a welcoming public space.
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RISD Architecture students participating in the Envision Resilience Challenge draw up radical plans in response to projected sea-level rise in Warren, RI.
![a silver globe floating in water](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2022-04/HermannListing.jpg?h=b67478d5&itok=viP7xYV_)
Landscape Architecture students develop environmentally just proposals for managing sea-level rise in the Narragansett Bay as part of the Envision Resilience Challenge.