What We've Done

Argentina

• Hi/Low Tech – Experimental and Foundation Studies Studio, WS 21

Australia

• Witness Tree Project – Furniture Design & History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences Studio, WS 20

Brazil

• Advanced Studio - Rio de Janeiro – Architecture Studio, FT 17

Canada

• Haida Made – Furniture Design Studio, WS 18

China

• CAFA International Cooperation Workshop Ceramic Art – Ceramics Studio, FT 18

Cuba

• Print & History – Printmaking & Theory and History of Art and Design Studio, WS 17

Denmark

• Virtual Denmark | Design Seminar + Workshop – Furniture Design Studio, SS 21
• Design Seminar + Workshop – Furniture Design Studio, SS 16, 18, 19

Finland

• Global Field Trip – Architecture Studio, FT 16

France

• Photography in Paris – Photography Studio, WS 16-20
• Boisbuchet: From Horizontal to Vertical – Architecture Studio, FT 18
• Gastronomie + Printmaking in Richelieu – Architecture Studio, SS 16

Germany

• Crystal Clear – Industrial Design Studio, FT 18
  
• Advanced Studio – Architecture Studio, FT 17
• Berlin Through Your Lens – Photography Studio, SS 16
• Nuremberg: Purposeful Play + Toy Design – Industrial Design Studio, SS 16

Guyana

• Art & Science Of Biodiversity – History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences Studio, WS 17, 19

Iceland

• Artistic Practice in 24-Hour Light – Graphic Design Studio, SS 17

Ireland

• Illustrating Irish Myths and Legends in the Burren – Illustration Studio, SS 16-18

Italy

• Virtual, Italy | Form, Leather, Color and Craft – Industrial Design Studio, SS 21
• See Naples And Die – Landscape Architecture & Literary Arts & Studies Studio, WS 19
• Rome: Drinking the Italian Way - Re-evaluating the Vessel – Industrial Design Studio, SS 19
• Rome: Illustrating Dante's Inferno – Illustration Studio, SS 19
• Milan Furniture Design Week – Furniture Design Studio, FT 19
• Renaissance Painting Techniques/Perugia to Venice – Illustration & Theory and History of Art and Design Studio, WS 18
• RISD in Rome: Artistic Practice in Public Space – Graphic Design Studio, SS 18
• (In)visible Venice – Experimental and Foundation Studies & Literary Arts and Studies Studio, WS 16-17
• Shoe Design - Perception, History & Prototyping – Apparel Design & Industrial Design Studio, WS 17
• Rome from Pantheon to MAAM – Architecture Studio, WS 17
• RISD in Rome: Maps and Stories – Architecture Studio, SS 17
• RISD in Rome: Sensing The City: Augmented Interaction with the City of Rome – Industrial Design Studio, SS 17
• Global Field Trip – Experimental and Foundation Studies Studio, FT 17
  
• The Artist and the Grand Tour – Theory and History of Art and Design Studio, FT 17
• Discovery Through Drawing – Architecture Studio, SS 16

Japan

• Papers, Temples and Print – Printmaking Studio, WS 16-17, 19-20
• Papermaking + Puppet Theater – Printmaking Studio, SS 19
• Contemporary Works and their Execution – Architecture Studio, WS 18
• Tokyo: Bicycle Design and Building – Industrial Design Studio, SS 16 + 18
• Book Shaping and Visual Ideas – Printmaking Studio, SS 17

Mexico

• Color, Mestizaje & Design Futures – Textile Design Studio, WS 20
• Material Propositions: Oaxaca – Architecture Studio, WS 20
• Pre-Columbian to Contemporary – History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences Studio, WS 20
• History, Pre-Colonial, Colonial, and Contemporary Arts – History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences Studio, WS 19
• Unwall the Border – Architecture Studio, FT 17

Morocco

• Crafting the City – Interior Architecture Studio, WS 18
• Advance Studio: Pattern | Performance | Clay – Architecture & Ceramics Studio, FT 18

Northern Europe

• Perception, History & Prototyping – Apparel Design Studio, WS 16

Portugal

• Azores: Walk + Work With Wood – Architecture Studio, SS 19
• Mapping Portugal – Interior Architecture Studio, WS 19
• Material Practices – Architecture Studio, WS 18
• Travel Studio – Architecture Studio, WS 16
  

South Africa

• Art + Science of Conservation – History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences Studio, SS 18+19

South Korea

• Housing Hybrids – Interior Architecture, SS 17
• Of House and Home: Rethinking - Reworking, a century of Korean Housing 1910-2010 – Architecture Studio, FT 19
• Housing Hybrids – Interior Architecture Studio, FT 16

Sweden

• Sweden+Denmark: Beyond Borders - Designing Resiliency for the Urban Landscape – Architecture Studio, FT 18

Sri Lanka

• Northern Visions – Landscape Architecture, WS 16

Tanzania

• Between Content and Container Vol. 3 – Architecture Studio, FT 18

Explore all programs – Study Globally

• Morocco: Crafting the City: This pilot program spanned three academic years at RISD and engaged courses, events, and exhibitions that engaged multiple academic departments, divisions, and spaces.
  
  
• Portugal: Resources and Places: Dedicated to place-based investigations of such materials as cork and softwoods, Resources and Places engaged over five academic departments at RISD through on- and off-campus studios, seminars, and exhibitions.
  

Learn more – Partnered Initiatives

Faculty Fellowships

• Where is Africa? This extended set of exchanges with contemporary artists, curators, designers, and academics aimed to decolonize the imperialist foundations of both cultural institutions and their anthropological fascination with African objects, people, and places.
  
• Global Futures Lab: This series of international workshops aimed at moving beyond stereotypical western visions of the future to invite partners and students at specific locations around the world to imagine the future in their own geo-cultural region.

Faculty Grants

The Global Engagement for Curricular Development grants (GEforCD) uphold RISD’s strategic plan and vision in its support of faculty’s development of curricula that can contribute to the creation of a just society, 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.

• Eric Anderson (Theory and History of Art and Design) – India & Japan 19/20
• Catherine Andreozzi (Apparel Design) – Indonesia 19/20
  
• Peter Dean (Furniture Design) & Jonathan Knowles (Architecture) – Costa Rica 19/20
• Paola Dematte (Theory and History of Art and Design) – Mexico & Guatemala 19/20
• Alexia Kosmider (Literary Arts and Studies) – Crow Nation 19/20
• Eric Telfort (Illustration) – Japan 19/20
• Silvia Acosta (Architecture) – Mexico 18/19
• Jasper Chadprajong-Smith (Apparel Design) – Thailand 18/19
• Peter Tagiuri (Architecture) – South Korea 18/19
• Ayako Takase (Industrial Design) – Japan 18/19
• Paula Gaetano-Adi (Experimental and Foundation Studies) – South America 17/18
• Patricia Johnson (Furniture Design) – India 17/18
• Andrew Robarts (History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences) – Morocco 17/18
• Elena Varshavskaya (Theory and History of Art and Design) – China 17/18
  
• Mary Anne Friel (Textiles) – Lebanon 16/17
  
• Emanuel Admassu (Architecture) & John Lauermann (History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences) – Tanzania 15/16
• Michelle Charest (Theory and History of Art and Design) – Ireland 15/16
• Jonathan Highfield (Literary Arts and Studies) – Ghana 15/16
• Lucy Spelman (History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences) – South Africa, Namibia, Rwanda 15/16