Hands-on fall studios encourage students to incorporate contemporary technologies and platforms into their evolving creative ...

Fall 2025 Regeneration Studio focuses on biomimicry research in structures, materials, mechanisms, and interfaces.

Students are using such techniques as silkscreening and block printing to transform blank clay canvases into unique and ...

Students traveled to Ocean Hour Farm in Newport, RI as part of their yearlong investigation into earth-friendly materials ...

How can environmentalists help fellow citizens understand the importance of clean waterways and a diverse aquaculture to our long-term planetary health? That is one of the key questions a team of RISD ...

“My people have been written out of Rhode Island history for so long,” says Indigenous artist Lynsea Montanari (Narragansett). “I hope that people finally begin to see us because of this mural.” ...

Spring 2025 marked the return of in-person adult art classes offered by RISD’s Continuing Ed division after a five-year, pandemic-related pause. Although virtual and long-distance learning is still ...

Where does perceived value come from and how do we as a society move from an extractive/zero-sum mindset into a more generative one inspired by nature? The question was posed by RISD alum Charlotte ...

RISD’s 2023 Maharam Fellows are using their design-thinking skills to address issues such as sustainability and social justice while working at government and nonprofit organizations around the world.

In modern terminology, universal design is an approach to creating buildings, products or environments that makes them accessible to all kinds of people, regardless of their age, size or physical ...