Four research projects in the works led by faculty members and recent alums focus on collaboration and inclusive design.

Grounded in craft, the artist’s practice was set in motion by a Southwestern-style bolo tie and other costume jewelry handed ...

The award-winning Pixar cinematographer discovered the joy of teamwork as a student at RISD and continues to find fresh ...

A remarkable seven new and recent RISD alums are fanning out across Europe and Asia in the coming months as part of the 2022–23 Fulbright US Student Program. As RISD’s Fulbright Program Advisor Lisa ...

A graduate-level Furniture Design course taught by faculty member Jonah Takagi 02 FD used Providence’s Lippitt House Museum as a lens for understanding how furniture and interiors reflect the social, ...

What can mushrooms and other fungi teach us about the world we inhabit? Do they deserve rights like humans since research tells us that they are sentient beings? Can they help us solve some of the ...

Students in a fall research studio created in collaboration with the Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) experimented with biopolymers such as cellulose, gelatin, and starch to create green bioplastics that ...

Video games, earth sciences, social justice, and 2D animation were just a few of the topics covered during this year’s Brown | RISD Dual Degree capstone presentations, in which graduating students ...

In her foundational publication Killing Rage: Ending Racism, late social critic bell hooks wrote, “Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of ...

As a senior in RISD’s Film/Animation/Video department, Lucas Ansel 23 FAV created a stop-motion masterpiece called The 12-Inch Pianist that went on to win silver in the 2025 Student Academy Awards ...

The mood was jubilant on opening night of the Film/Animation/Video department’s Senior Show 2024, as 45 graduating seniors presented their (mostly animated) final films to a receptive crowd in the ...