RISD Global has been developing unique approaches to global engagement through partnerships and collaborations across the world that engage multiple external partners, three or more RISD academic departments, and over two or more years of sustained activity.
In RISD’s approach to global academic engagements, we value:
Over 1350 students and 125 faculty have engaged in RISD Global off-campus travel programs and initiatives since 2016. Explore our recent programs and initiatives!
View detailsRecent partnerships have focused on initiatives that have been framed through dialogue with partners in the geographies of focus. The themes of focus support RISD’s strategic vision and goals towards the creation of new ways of making and knowing, more just societies, and a more sustainable approach to cohabiting the planet.
A number of these partnerships have focused on the themes:
These themes have been explored in collaboration with a network of partners, which includes universities; art and design schools; non-profit environmental conservation organizations; government agencies; grant making bodies and foundations, and networks of expert individuals and informal local partners in Morocco, Portugal, Guyana, and South Africa.
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Partnership InquiriesRISD is partnered with Morocco’s Ministry of Tourism, Air Transport, Handicrafts and Social Economy, Maison de l’Artisan and Holmarcom Group to co-create a multifaceted collaboration and partnership between RISD faculty and students and Moroccan craftspeople, designers and academics.
A multi-year initiative focused on the research and study of softwoods and cork in the context of Portugal.
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