The recent Film/Animation/Video alum and Student Academy Award-winning animator reflects on his passions for problem solving, ...

When Brooklyn-based lighting designer and RISD alum David Weeks 90 PT created the Cubebot toy robot some 25 years ago, he was just looking for a new type of project to keep his creative wheels turning ...

We continue to deal with a massive volume of snowfall removal and its logistical consequences. Therefore, RISD will reopen on a limited basis on Thursday, February 26 and Friday, February 27. This ...

Due to the volume of blizzard snowfall and to allow for the safe and timely removal of snow, RISD’s winter weather closure will be extended through Wednesday, February 25 at 7:00 am. Please carefully ...

Modeled on our EFS curriculum, this one-semester program for first-year students is a unique, immersive option for students beginning their RISD journey. Our celebration of the Class of 2026 is part ...

VERY, VERY WHITE—EVEN IN MIDSUMMER, reports Michael Lye 96 ID in recalling his week in Iceland last summer. “White snow, white fog, white sky—just completely white,” the longtime RISD faculty member ...

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 ...

“As an emerging architect interested in furthering my education, I chose RISD’s Interior Architecture department because I wanted to be part of a program grounded in craft within a framework of design ...

How can we apply the strategies we observe in the natural world to our own design research? Why have the characteristics of living creatures evolved in the ways that they have? These are the kinds of ...

The audience inside RISD’s Metcalf Auditorium goes quiet as a giant dove moves slowly onto the stage, its wings swaying in time to hypnotic live guitar music. Soon, smaller sun and moon marionettes ...

This summer more than 400 RISD students are working as paid interns across the US and beyond—designing digital furniture models, helping develop knitwear lines, illustrating digital gaming worlds and ...

Students in a recently revamped gardening club called the RISD Regenerative Earth Collective (RREC) are using a small plot of land on Defoe Place, behind the Congdon Street Baptist Church, to build ...