Drawing
RISD’s newest concentration offers an opportunity for deep engagement with a key aspect of research at RISD: the notion of drawing as speculation. Through studios highlighting the discipline’s fundamental connection to innovation and discovery, students come to understand drawing as both a practice integral to all art and design disciplines and as an end in itself for the creation of resolved works of art. Students are encouraged to think critically about the history and evolving presence of drawing in the world and consider the evolution of their own work in this context.
Concentrations Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies
Computation, Technology + Culture
The interdisciplinary concentration in Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies (NCSS) invites undergraduates to shape individualized courses of study focused on the environmental humanities and the interconnected phenomena of contemporary life. Through the 21-credit concentration, students pursue issues related to biomimicry, emerging technologies, global warming, hybridity and sustainability, among other options, while developing an informed planetary perspective and broadbased critical thinking and problem solving skills.
In the interdisciplinary Computation, Technology + Culture (CTC) concentration, students gain an understanding of the ideas and techniques of writing in programming languages while engaging with related critical analysis, history and theory. They hone the ability to write source code, author software and program machines for making works of art and design. As they gain knowledge in this area, students are able to move beyond being software users constrained by proprietary software and become cultural producers and artist-programmers.
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