Extra-Medium Lecture Series | Tim Parsons
This Monday, April 23rd, will be the 11th Extra-Medium Lecture Series out of 13 lectures organized by David Zacher (MID ’12). The event is sponsored both by the Industrial Design and Furniture Departments and will be taking place in the Chace Center Auditorium from 12:00p-1:00p. Tim Parsons is a product designer, writer, and lecturer on [...]
Jonathan Harris | Lecture Tonight!
World renowned artist and digital media maker Jonathan Harris will speak on the importance of storytelling and humanizing technology TONIGHT at 7:30p in the RISD Auditorium. Harris is a true artist and luminary of our time and this lecture is not one to miss! “Instead of fleeing to the forest, we must find humanity in [...]
Ayah Bdeir | RISD on TED
Over wintersession, TED Fellow Ayah Bdeir visited RISD and presented as part of the Extra Medium Lecture Series organized by David Zacher (MID ’12). While visiting, Bdeir talked about the development behind littleBits, a set of electronics as easy to play with as Legos. Following her presentation, Bdeir broke students into teams of two and [...]
Extra-Medium Lecture Series | Microsoft
Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 20th, will be the 9th out of 10 lectures, as part of the Extra-Medium Lecture Series run by David Zacher (MID ’12). The lecture will be taking place on the 6th floor of 161 South Main Street from 12:00p-1:00p. Nic Villar can take a product from idea into production in 24 hours… [...]
Jessica Jackley | Lessons for Entrepreneurs
“Jessica Jackley co-founded KIVA, which has put nearly $300M in the hands of entrepreneurs “in need” in 61 countries. This not for profit, peer-to-peer micro-lending platform has an incredible project failure rate of only 1%. Wanting to reproduce this success in the USA, Jackley went on to create ProFounder to make the process of raising [...]
Extra Medium Lecture Series | Thomas Thwaites
This Wednesday, the Extra-Medium lecture series continues with Thomas Thwaites of “The Toaster Project.” There will be a workshop taking place from 11:20am-4:20p in Room 600, with a lecture given in the RISD Auditorium. Check out the poster below for more information and click here to reserve a seat for the workshop, where participants will [...]
Hackers & Painters
Hackers & Painters, the official schmoozing group of Brown CS and RISD, invites students to come hang out this evening in MET Room A at 8:00pm. This group is great for anyone even remotely interested in the crossover of Computer Science and Art/Design, helping connect RISD students with those outside of our community. Students, come [...]
Shared Voices | Lisa Randall
Tomorrow, Thursday, February 2nd at 7:30 pm, Lisa Randall, a theoretical physicist and author will be speaking at the RISD Auditorium as part of the Shared Voice lecture series. A researcher in particle physics, Randall is speaking about the significance of her field and science in relation to art and design. Although tickets are sold [...]
RISD 2nd Life | Storefront Opening
This past Friday, RISD 2nd Life, an art supply and materials recycling resource on campus, held a grand opening for its new storefront located at 351 South Main Street. Compared to its previous location (a trailer in the alley between the Design Center and the RISD Auditorium), this space offers much more freedom for the [...]
Shared Voices | Juan Enriquez
A week from today, January 5th, will mark the first lecture of the Presidential Speaker Series “Shared Voices“ taking place at the Rhode Island School of Design. Taking the stage will be Juan Enriquez as he speaks on the newest innovations in digital fabrication, building with genes. Some principles of design are timeless, but a [...]
Rare Woods Collection Meeting
This coming Monday, December 5th, there will be an informational meeting hosted by the Furniture Department about the Rare Woods Collection here at RISD. For those of you who are unfamiliar, the Rare Woods Collection is one of the coolest secret attributes of the Rhode Island School of Design. On par with the secret Swarovski [...]
TONIGHT: Eames Movie Opening
Tonight marks the opening of the film “Eames: The Architect and the Painter” at Cable Car. The movie centers around the amazing husband and wife designers, and is narrated by none other than current RISD D+M graduate student James Franco. If you like either of these topics, like myself, it’s a must attend film. Film [...]
3rd Biennial Design Science Symposium
The 3rd Biennial Design Science Symposium runs from November 11th – 13th and if free for RISD Students and Faculty, but you must register online at expspace.risd.edu OR in person at The Nature Lab. Posted by Carly Ayres | Date Posted: 08 November, 2011
RISD’s 3rd Biennial Design Science Symposium
For all you lovers of nature, geometry, symmetry of space, Carl Fasano, and everything in between, next weekend marks the Third Biennial Design Science Symposium at RISD. The event goes on November 11th -13th and will be presented by The Synergetics Collaborative and The Edna Lawrence Nature Lab. Below is a picture I took of [...]
RISD Entrepreneur Mindshare
22 Speakers. 1 Day. Be Inspired. This is the mission proposed by the team behind RISD Entrepreneur Mindshare, a one day event hosted by RISD Career Services Saturday, November 12 in Met Rooms A, B, and C from 9:00am – 7:00pm. Although the event lasts all day, students are encouraged to come in and out [...]