We're so pleased to share a summary of our past 5 years at the Center We invite you to view it on our website, linked below Our future is uncertain, along with so many other US organizations We hope to share some rays of hope in the near future https://lnkd.in/eewt2Q5Z
RISD Center for Complexity
研究服务
Providence，Rhode Island 1,605 位关注者
We work between research and realization, bridging pedagogy and practice.
关于我们
The Center for Complexity at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) is a platform for transdisciplinary collaboration and innovation, informed by global events and creative practices, founded to benefit scholars, practitioners, a diverse range of partners, and the RISD community. The most pressing problems we face today are sprawling beasts, crossing borders and boundaries, with little regard for the carefully constructed silos that characterize 20th Century knowledge and practice. We are interested in systems and their big challenges. We believe they must be addressed by methods that link minds, disciplines, geographies, and scales. Follow us here for updates on our annual symposium, partnerships, projects, and the ideas we find inspiring. Subscribe to our newsletter here https://compasslens.substack.com/
- 网站
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https://complexity.risd.edu/
RISD Center for Complexity的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 研究服务
- 规模
- 2-10 人
- 总部
- Providence，Rhode Island
- 创立
- 2019
- 领域
- Design、Systems Thinking、Innovation、Strategic Design和Complexity
动态
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In the next article in our series, Dara Benno reflects on everyday encounters that bring the practice of our Polecene Design Manual to life. Find the manual on our microsite polycene.design
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Check out the remote offerings for this planetary event!
Announcing the Launch of the Planetary Civics Inquiry! We are thrilled to introduce the Planetary Civics Inquiry (PCI) — an alliance of researchers, educators, policymakers, designers, and practitioners committed to transforming the structures and processes that shape how we govern our entangled planet, founded by Dark Matter Labs, Politics for Tomorrow, RISD Center for Complexity, and RMIT University. In the next 10x100 days, we strive to achieve significant milestones towards planetarity as a frame of action, influencing public policy, creating a governance framework for complex ecosystems, and building a planetary civics alliance for a new knowledge economy and more regenerative futures. It all begins on the 26th of February, 2025 with a 12-hour global launch event. The launch event will feature a series of distributed intercontinental sessions spanning four time zones. Further details, including the full itinerary, will be shared shortly. Secure your spot by registering at https://lnkd.in/d7ctYBF6. #Sustainability #Innovation #PublicPolicy #ClimateAction #GlobalEvent #RegenerativeFutures #PlanetaryGovernance #EcosystemManagement #KnowledgeEconomy #Policy Indy Johar Caroline Paulick-Thiel Tim Marshall Zehra Zaidi OBE Blasius Walch Prateek S. Alexandra Bekker Wendy Steele Nils Gilman Jonathan Blake Emily Knapp Justin W. Cook Tim Maly Irina V. Wang Charlene Sequeira Gurden Batra Martin Lorenz Toban Shadlyn Raj Kalia
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Our next article is from our senior lead of strategic design and communication Tim Maly. Here she shares her reflections on whether knowing your audience is important to doing good design. The topic surfaced during winter critique of student work, an essential component to art and design education at Rhode Island School of Design.
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It's 2025, and our team is now 5 years old! We'll be posting articles here to reflect and synthesize our work, and look forward to what's coming next This article by our assistant director of strategic design and programs Katie Edmonds surfaces some techniques from our Agency workshop that she believes can't be replaced by AI. What do you think?
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Rhode Island School of Design is thrilled to announce RISD’s two winning teams in the Terra Carta Design Lab, each of which will receive ￡100,000 in funding, as well as mentorship to further develop their projects. Terra Carta Design Lab is a global competition led by the Sustainable Markets Initiative aimed at empowering student- and alum-led, high-impact, and equitable solutions to the climate crisis. The finalists’ work demonstrated extraordinary creativity, visionary ambition, and a deep commitment to intervene on a wide scale to address urgent planetary challenges. As a nod toward this global call, the Terra Carta Design Lab placed RISD in community with the Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation (UAE), the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad (India), and the Royal College of Art (UK). Together, we were honored to shed light on the essential and necessary contributions of artists and designers as active agents of regenerative solutions to worldwide climate damage. Each project was moved forward by RISD alums who honed their expertise in many different fields, from Industrial Design, and Architecture, to Graphic Design, and Furniture Design. Through their work and their adept ease with complex thinking, these alums embody the unique strengths of RISD’s educational principles through cross-disciplinary fluency and meaningful collaborations. They have worked diligently to develop groundbreaking, sustainable solutions that prioritize material innovation, equitable practice, and thorough research. RISD’s two Terra Carta Design Lab winners are: BIOPOD: A human-scale ecosystem module designed to remediate water quality and restore vital urban marshes. Co-founders: Manini Banerjee 24 ID, Avantika Velho 22 ID Team members: Dr. Katia Zolotovsky, Senior Research Advisor, Malvika Agarwal 22 GD, Skylar Perez MArch 23, Joel Yong 25 ID SHELLF LIFE: A transformative biomaterial made from discarded mollusk shells, offering a sustainable alternative for diverse applications. Founder: Felicia Neuhof MArch 24 Team members: Jason Connell MFA 24 FD, Aleza Epstein MArch 24 https://lnkd.in/e3DAFqmH https://www.biopodco.org/ https://lnkd.in/e9qZ_dqJ
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Celebrating this milestone for former CfC fellow Zoe Lee & their new venture BEAM We’re committed to supporting students like Zoe by offering fellowships during and after their studies here at Rhode Island School of Design
Hello, world ?? Annie Chen and I are thrilled to announce the launch of our new company, BEAM. BEAM is a climate transition design studio working at the intersection of technology, culture, and community to advance resilient and just climate futures. At BEAM, we know that change happens at the speed of trust; we’re on a mission to bridge the gap between innovators and communities on the frontlines of climate change to catalyze efficient and equitable climate action. We work with climate tech, research groups, community organizations, and policymakers to create sociotechnical solutions to the climate crisis, while also collaborating with researchers, storytellers, and technologists to envision and prototype new models of climate futures worth pursuing. In our kickoff year, we’re excited to be a part of the Y11 cohort of NEW INC, a design incubator from New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC. At NEW INC, we’re thrilled to be working alongside a talented community of creative entrepreneurs pave new roads across art, design, tech, and science. We’re seeking to connect with visionary change makers, community leaders, policy experts, corporate leaders, and institutional partners to collaboratively shape a more just and sustainable future. Visit us at www.beamstudio.earth or drop us a line at [email protected] – we’d love to start the conversation.?
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We believe that designerly skills of engaging in discussion about the material world and the built environment is essential to addressing complex challenges. Making enables dialogue about what was made, which enables making more suitable things in suatable ways to achieve the preferred outcome. Complex challenges are complex because it’s so difficult to agree on what resources to convene, and what interventions those resources should be shaped into. It’s so common that groups of decision makers endlessly debate and plan before taking any action. Rhode Island School of Design first year undergraduates establish an entirely different relationship to taking action. At the RISD Center for Complexity we develop projects that draw next generation artists and designers into addressing the intractable issues of our day for exactly this reason. See the link below to read more about how first year undergraduates learn at RISD.
First-year undergraduate students at RISD are immersed in making, developing their skills and finding inspiration and context for their work in studios. A key element in the process is critique—both giving and receiving constructive criticism—and developing that skill is an important part of the Experimental and Foundation Studies (EFS) curriculum. In an EFS studio led by Associate Professor and Photography alum Mimi Cabell, an assignment focused on cowboy culture inspired a wide range of responses and meaningful dialogue. Learn more below. #RISD #RISD1877
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We have a close connection to the industrial design program here at Rhode Island School of Design, and encourage complexity oriented designers to go for this role
Founder of Yeadon Space Agency + Partner at SPARK IP + RISD Professor of Industrial Design
Just announced! Our Department of Industrial Design, at the Rhode Island School of Design, invites applications for full-time faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, to commence Fall 2025. Link below. Please share widely!