Teach Global Summer

Every summer, RISD Global offers a set of multi-disciplinary Global Summer Studies. These 3 week-long, 30 credit courses are led by RISD faculty and engage RISD students, as well as art and design students from other colleges, in the exploration of a wide spectrum of topics related to art, design and global thinking.

RISD Global Summer Studies are a core component of the School's internationalization and global engagement; in the last year's courses engaged with practices and traditions in such geographies as: the Azores, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, South Africa, and South Korea, among others. Each year, at least two Global Summer Studies take place at RISD in Rome.

Application is open for summer 2020, apply by October 21, 2019.

Recent Global Summer Studies

Recent Global Summer Studies courses have led students to particular sites in the world to study: biodiversity and the impact of animal poaching on the environment, sustainable materials for the built environment, and contemporary applications of traditional heritages of making in specific cultures and locations of the world. As such, these courses support RISD’s strategic vision to contribute to the creation of just societies, a sustainable planet, and new ways of making and knowing that equip humans to live in mutually enhancing ways with each other and with the earth.

Summer 2019

Azores: Walk + Work with Wood - Laura Briggs (Faculty, RISD Architecture)
Denmark: Design Seminar + Workshop - Nathaniel Smith (Faculty, RISD Furniture)
Japan: Papermaking + Puppet Theater - Daniel Heyman (Faculty, RISD Printmaking)
RISD in ROME: Illustrating Dante's Inferno - Robert Brinkerhoff (Faculty, RISD Illustration, Dean of RISD Fine Arts)
RISD in ROME: Drinking, the Italian Way - Re-Evaluating the Vessel - Dana D’Amico (Faculty, RISD Industrial Design)
South Africa: Art and Science of Conservation - Lucy Spelman (Faculty, RISD History, Philosophy, & the Social Sciences)

Summer 2018

Denmark: Danish Design Workshop - Nathaniel Smith (Faculty, RISD Furniture)
Ireland: Illustrating Irish Myths and Legends in the Burren - Robert Brinkerhoff (Faculty, RISD Illustration, Dean of RISD Fine Arts division )
RISD in Rome: Artistic Practice in Public Space - Paul Soulellis (Faculty, RISD Graphic Design)
South Africa: Art and Science Conservation - Lucy Spelman (Faculty, RISD History, Philosophy, & the Social Sciences)
Tokyo: Bike Building - Khipra Nichols (Faculty, RISD Industrial Design)

Summer 2017

Iceland: Artistic Practice in 24-Hour Light - Paul Soulellis (Faculty, RISD Graphic Design)
Ireland: Illustrating Myths and Legends in the Burren - Robert Brinkerhoff, (Faculty, RISD Illustration)
Japan: Book Shaping and Visual Ideas - Daniel Heyman (Faculty, RISD Printmaking)
RISD in ROME: Maps and Stories - Gabriel Feld (Faculty, RISD Architecture) and Ezio Genovesi (Director, RISD in Rome)
RISD in ROME: Sensing The City - Paolo Cardini(Faculty, RISD Industrial Design) and Diane Derr (Faculty, VCUQ)
South Korea: Housing Hybrids - Rafael Luna (Faculty, RISD Interior Architecture)

Preparation & Research

Leading a Global Summer Studies is a wonderful and challenging experience, to begin to prepare and research this possibility, we encourage faculty to:

Meet with RISD Global to learn more about these opportunities.
Speak with faculty who have led recent Global Summer Studies courses/seminars.
Consider applying for a Global Engagement for Curricular Development grant to support your research towards a course/seminar proposal.
Learn more about the course proposal process for Global Summer Studies.

South Africa: Art and Science of Conservation

Apply to teach a Global Summer Studies

For summer 2020, all RISD faculty, full- and part-time- are invited to present a proposal for a 3-week off-campus course to be offered between June 3rd and July 25th, 2020.

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AUSTRALIA - Witness Tree Project: Memory, Place and Cultural Ecology

European Honors Program - Spring 2020

FRANCE - Photography in Paris

JAPAN - Papers, Temples & Print

MEXICO - Color, Mestizaje & Design Futures

MEXICO - Pre-Columbian to Contemporary: Architecture & Crafts

MEXICO - Material Propositions: Oaxaca

European Honors Program - Fall 2019

RISD in ROME: Illustrating Dante's Inferno

South Africa: Art and Science of Conservation

Denmark: Design Seminar and Workshop

RISD in ROME: Drinking, the Italian Way - Re-Evaluating the Vessel

Japan: Papermaking and Puppet Theater

Azores: Walk and Work with Wood

Of House and Home: Rethinking-Reworking, a Century of Korean Housing 1910-2010

European Honors Program - Spring 2019

France: Photography in Paris

Guyana: Exploring Art and Science of Bio Diversity in Guyana

Japan: Papers, Temples and Print

Portugal: Mapping Portugal: Bio-geo Cultural Heritages

Italy: See Naples and Die: Panorama and the Poetics of City

Mexico: History, Pre-Colonial, Colonial and Contemporary Arts

Germany: Advanced Studio - Crystal Clear

Where is Africa?

European Honors Program - Fall 2018

Tokyo: Bike Building

RISD in ROME: Artistic Practice in Public Space

South Africa: Art and Science of Conservation

Ireland: Illustrating Irish Myths and Legends in the Burren

Denmark: Danish Design Workshop

Resources and Places: Focus Portugal

East Africa: Between Content and Container Vol. 3

France: From Horizontal to Vertical

Morocco: Advanced Studio - Pattern | Performance | Clay

Sweden and Denmark: Beyond Borders - Designing Resiliency for the Urban Landscape

European Honors Program - Spring 2018

Portugal: Material Practices

France: Photography in Paris

Canada: Haida Made

Italy: Renaissance Painting Techniques/Perugia to Venice

Japan: Contemporary Works and Their Execution

Morocco: Crafting the City

Mexico: Un-Wall the Border

European Honors Program - Fall 2017

Argentina: Hi/Low Tech

Cuba: Print & History

Guyana: Art & Science

Italy: (In)Visible Venice

Italy: Shoe Design and Prototyping

Italy: Travel Rome

Japan: Paper, Temples, Prints

Crafting the City: Focus Morocco

Global Futures Lab

Japan: Papermaking, Temples and Prints

Italy: Shoe Design and Prototyping

Sri Lanka: Northern Visions

France: Photography in Paris

Researching Cuba: Print and History