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This spring, students in the Industrial Design course Humanitarian Innovation Design worked with partners in Greece and Uganda.
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Grad Show 2023 offers visitors a peek inside the studios of artists and designers working in 19 different areas of study.
![A model walks down the runway in drag and a red with in a garment made by Disco Amber](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-05/student-model-on-runway-in-drag-with-red-wig-and-patched-layered-jacket-by-disco-amber-chen-apparel-senior-show-2023-credit-jo-sittenfeld%20%28CEILING%20EDIT%29.jpg?h=fcf25457&itok=DfdecyWl)
Students presented their senior thesis work in the Fleet Library at RISD in Epilogue [23].
![historic photo of little-known Snowtown neighborhood in 1800s Providence](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-05/HistoricSnowtown.jpg?h=dd8f6065&itok=6FjXUcIZ)
The once-vibrant, multiracial Providence community was razed in the 1800s to make room for the railroad and the Rhode Island State House.
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More than 40 live-action and animated films featured in four-night festival.
![students demo AI-created tarot deck](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-05/AIHero.jpg?h=b385b01d&itok=3iRrvFsX)
Faculty member Griffin Smith welcomes the creative opportunities evolving artificial intelligence tools provide.
![A hand poised over a game board](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-05/PlayingCounter.jpg?h=189fa33c&itok=2kB3JCQa)
Shey Rivera Ríos and Ruchika Nambiar collaborate with research designers from the MIT Game Lab to explore how games can be used to subvert oppressive narratives.
![Students take a trip to the Tomaquag Museum in Exeter, RI](/sites/g/files/upbtqy111/files/styles/landscape_3_2_250x166/public/2023-05/23ManyVoicesTomaquagMuseum.jpg?h=fcf25457&itok=aIdveZWN)
Many Hands, Many Voices: Textile Histories and Entanglements, taught by RISD Museum curator Kate Irvin, highlights marginalized makers of the past.