RISD in Rome: Sensing The City: Augmented Interaction with the City of Rome

About this Travel Course

The first phase will be about "feeling the city" and the students will "flaneur" around Rome, self-reflecting on their perceptions and identifying interesting multi-sensorial elements. The second phase mostly focused on making, will teach students how to create wearable devices that, through the use of new technologies (sensors, Arduino boards, motors, servos, but not limited to those), will react to external stimulus and/or collect environmental data. The third and last phase will be about "sensing the city". Rome will provide the experimental context where students will test and perform their creations, walking through the city and letting their wearable devices responding to the crowd, the noise, the narrow streets, the light or anything else they will design them for.

This class supports an interdisciplinary approach to creativity and it welcome students from design, sculpture, new media, furniture, apparel and any other individual interested in the relation between the body and the space. The course will include a travel to Venice to visit the Art Biennial and a collaboration with a local Makerspace.

Student + Faculty Stories

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• Exhibition: Time. Space. Place. Global Thoughts and Practices showcases work by RISD students developed over the past year during short-term travel courses, semester-long programs, and faculty-led research-based initiatives. The works in this exhibition reflect the potential for artists' and designers' global engagement to create dialogues and ways of thinking that contribute to how we all respond to our ever-changing world. Time.Space.Place. is a collaboration between RISD Global and Campus Exhibitions.