Sam Sheffer
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Sam Sheffer (they/them) is a designer based out of Boston, MA. Sam considers divergent art forms, sensory experiences and architectural imagination through extensions of the body. Sam is interested in leveraging the potential of design to reveal fresh perspectives and deepen our understanding of the world. They hold a Master’s of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor’s in Geology from Whitman College. Sam is a project designer at MALL (Mass Architectural Loopty Loops), working on projects in Portland, Atlanta and Los Angeles. They currently work as a design critic within the Architecture and Industrial Design departments at RISD.
Courses
Summer 2024 Courses
FOUND S103-04
STUDIO: DESIGN
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Studio: Design promotes multidisciplinary studio experimentation across an array of media and processes. Students explore the organization of visual and other sensory elements in order to understand perceptual attributes and the production of meaning. Using various methods of expression, students may create objects, spaces, and experiences that demonstrate their analysis of composition, color, narrative, motion, systems, and cultural signification. Assignments allow for inquiries into scientific, social, cultural, historical, philosophical, technological, and political topics. Critical and experimental utilization of design principles, which underpin all of the arts, are emphasized. Students are guided through progressive investigations, in which the act of seeing is amplified by the study of physiological and cognitive factors that generate perception. Examined subjects are taken through stages of representation, abstraction, and/or symbolic interpretation to reveal essential communicative properties.
Enrollment is limited to First-Year Students.
Major Requirement | BFA, BArch, MArch (3yr)