Tim Maly is senior lead of Strategic Design & Communications at RISD’s Center for Complexity. Tim is working on designing institutions suitable for managing existential threats and providing care beyond stigma. A writer and critical designer, Tim teaches in the Master’s of Industrial Design program at RISD, helping students understand the role that communication plays in explaining and exploring ideas.
Prior to joining RISD, Tim focused on the small details and vast networks at the strange edges of architecture and design. Tim is a co-founder of the Dredge Research Collaborative and of Capybara Games. Tim’s work has appeared in Wired, Fast Co.Design, The Atlantic, Medium, Works That Work and Urban Omnibus. Tim and Emily Horne co-wrote The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance, published by Coach House Press.
The objective of this course is to assist students in the development of methodologies for exploration, investigation, and construction of a well-designed proposal of thesis work. This seminar provides students with a variety of discursive and exploratory means to identify, locate, reflect on, and develop areas of interest to pursue in the evolution of individual thesis planning, culminating in the presentation of the thesis proposal.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Graphic Design Students.
Major Requirement | MFA Graphic Design
