Nuno Pimenta

Critic

Wintersession 2025 Courses

ARCH 1735-101 - DESIGN-BUILD: THE FABRIC FESTIVAL
Level Undergraduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Wintersession 2025
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

ARCH 1735-101

DESIGN-BUILD: THE FABRIC FESTIVAL

Level Undergraduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Wintersession 2025
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2025-01-03 to 2025-02-06
Times: TW | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM | 01/21/2025 - 01/22/2025; MT | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM | 01/13/2025 - 01/14/2025; MTW | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM | 01/06/2025 - 01/08/2025; MTW | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM | 02/03/2025 - 02/05/2025; MT | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM | 01/27/2025 - 01/28/2025 Instructor(s): Anastasia Laurenzi, Nuno Pimenta Location(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 109 Enrolled / Capacity: 20 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

The studio is a collaboration with Fabric Arts Festival - Fall River and Walk&Talk Azores, focused on the impact design-build has within the public realm. This course emphasizes and develops skills and techniques for students to engage with a community and work collaboratively toward the development of an installation. Co-taught by a visiting artist (Nuno Pimenta) and a RISD Architecture faculty member (Anastasia Laurenzi), students will learn about public art practices, creative place-making strategies and how to develop creative projects in collaboration with community stakeholders.

Students will:

- Learn methods and techniques to support and structure community-organization-designer relationships

- Gain at-scale fabrication and design-build skills 

- Learn models and methods of design collaboration

Estimated Cost of Materials: $100.00 - $200.00

Elective