“Creating solutions for conditions no one has ever experienced is the ultimate challenge. But imagining life beyond the planet also helps students move beyond their own assumptions.” Michael Lye
Industrial Design faculty member
by making things by hand and thinking about, analyzing and criticizing what you’re making. RISD’s extraordinary faculty — all practicing professionals — work with and mentor 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students who inspire each other through an immersive, hands-on, studio-based education.
AT R I S D YO U ’ LL LE A R N TO U N D E R S TA N D M AT E R I A L S
RISD is a place where fine artists and designers come together, where you can learn the art of intaglio printmaking, polish a product prototype in the metal shop or design a website to explain climate change. When art and design mix together like this in the studio — naturally, every day — amazing things happen.