Faculty Stories
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Local designers and longtime RISD faculty members to be honored by DesignxRI for their leadership and contributions to the industry.
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Full-time faculty members to join RISD in fall 2021 as a result of the “Race in Art & Design” cluster hire initiative.
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The fall 2021 semester gets underway with student move-in, orientation activities and an inspiring livestreamed Convocation event.
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RISD’s Center for Complexity reports on its second entirely virtual, pandemic-related summer symposium.
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RISD alums Sabina Kariat, Jessina Leonard and Masha Ryskin will conduct research in Turkey, Germany and Israel during the 2021/22 academic year.
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A multidisciplinary team builds on research conducted in the spring linking advanced technologies, public environments and personal experience.
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RISD Global offers two virtual summer studios focused on the cultures and design traditions of Denmark and Italy.
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The final installment of RISD’s African Food and Culture series focuses on the African Alliance of Rhode Island’s newly expanded Bami Farm.
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Architectural Digest reflects on how some of the institution’s best and brightest faculty members came together in the midst of the pandemic to work on the collection.