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bodies collapsing together... together as dust.
Full text linkI welcome you to a pedagogy of collapsing bodies: the teaching and learning practice between surviving occupants of Institutions.
From the villainizing of trans- bodies in K-14 public schools to the bodily removal of Palestinian discourse from universities, the 2025 presidential takeover of the Department of Education unearths systemic urgencies over the fragility, complicity, and agency of academic institutions—survivors of wars, recessions, shootings, climate disasters—that have always been collapsing. As long as educational campuses stage political and industrial performances, Institutional marriage to capitalism collapses the future of the university. Our architectural pedagogy shoulders this weight of confrontation: design education as the additive collaboration with the built environment, the critique and fueling of living systems, and the patronage of the world it seeks to change.
The craft of design education is the simultaneous admission of vulnerability, interrogation of existing systems, and development of futurist legibility. The creative and critical encouragement in design education is and has always been, the foundation for impressionable labor between students and faculty— existing as the university, invisible to the Institution.
We are collapsing bodies occupying collapsing Institutions; we must search for the absences of our architecture. As learning and teaching bodies, we occupy design studios and leave our dearly-departed dust: the signs of life settling between the cracks of floorboards. Our bits of skin, eraser shavings, and breadcrumbs alchemize through sighs, laughs, and rants, nourishing studios as the togethering of collapsing bodies.
In honor of the caring hands of my teachers, I embrace your collapse
Mass to Mineral: Edge Complexity for an Urbanized Floodplain
Full text linkIn the context of channelized rivers, urbanized floodplains, and sea level rise that this project situates itself within- we may look back with disdain for the decisions that have dramatically altered the dynamic, singular landscapes of our riparian systems. Burying the Providence River under a highway, squeezing it into a thread of its former floodplain, dredging, damming, and hardening the Woonasquatucket, Moshassuck, and Seekonk that merge their flows into the Narragansett Bay. But a river is, despite it all, still a river. Today, flooding follows the glacial outwash formation, or the original floodplain that carved these rivers far before our time.
The floodplain is hardened with material conglomerations that have been sorted, shipped, mined, mixed, and deposited in formations that are wholly human. They will erode nevertheless, returning bit by bit perhaps to the mineral state of their origin, but at different rates, with different bonds, in new territories. Restoration seeks to undo these altered landscapes to a state of former being, but urban floodplain landscapes paint a more complex image of restoration practices. This project explored how existing materials can be recalibrated to support strengthened, more complex riparian edge habitats in urbanized landscapes- with attention to the function of flood mitigation and the desire to translate a narrative of site history.
This project proposes edge conditions at three sites that utilize (rather than remove) on site materials, [discarded construction debris, stone wall at varying stages of intact], trying to understand their mineral compositions to balance erosion into our waterways through designs that address nutrient exchange, mitigation of leaching, and shoreline stabilization. The design repurposes these materials alongside the introduction of woody debris intended to break down into substrate for intertidal growth at elevations of projected MHHW in the next 100 years of sea level rise
Where the Ocean Ends, The Mountains Becoming
No full textThe father figure casts a long shadow—both a scaffold and a snare. Inherited silence, latent anger, and the fear of being seen are unspoken legacies that bind me. I move within a structure he built that promised protection yet enforced obedience. There, love was often inseparable from control.
This work emerges from the fracture between resistance and inheritance, between the instinct to escape and the compulsion to remain tethered. The paternal presence is no longer a person, but rather a system—an architecture of power and repression—that continues to influence my gestures, choices, and silences. Even distance fails to sever the thread.
Through image and movement, I trace a topology of estrangement—moments where conflict blurs into care and where rebellion becomes a form of devotion. The camera functions as an instrument of confrontation and inquiry. It does not seek to resolve the paradox but rather to dwell within it, exposing the invisible scaffolding of identity shaped by intergenerational force. This is not a return but a reckoning—a negotiation between presence and absence, love and rupture, structure and collapse
v.1 Spring 2025
No full textv.1 is a publishing platform for the ongoing work, ideas, discussions, debates, and aspirations of students at the Rhode Island School of Design. The Spring 2025 issue has the theme Take It as a Sign and features pieces on baby fever, spreadsheets and recording information, aura and technology, a trip to Horseshoe Bend, the new Art and Computation department at RISD, home and belonging, Illustration student projects related to sensitive experiences, red brick architecture in Providence, and technology and the English language, along with interviews of students in their studios, poetry, and other creative writing.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/studentnewspapers/2066/thumbnail.jp
Emmett Till Memory Project
No full textIn July 2024, RISD alum and faculty member Rene Payne 83 GD and a team of alum, faculty and students joined the Emmett Till Memory Project (ETMP) an immersive storytelling project designed to commemorate the murder of Emmett Till, honor the legacy of Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, and pursue racial reconciliation. The ETMP website and mobile app focus on preserving and protecting the sites in Chicago and Mississippi where the tragedy unfolded. Watch and learn more about the collaboration behind this urgent act of visualization, storytelling, and care. See how design helps communicate and buttress a chapter of history that is crucial to understanding the American experience.
Creative and web efforts were led by Payne, Zoë Pulley MFA 23 GD, and Jonathan Chen 23 SC, with support from the extended team at Payne’s firm included by Favor. Countless other collaborators, affiliates, advisors, and supporters were involved in the realization of this project. Please see https://www.etmp.site/about for a list of partners working together to honor the Till legacy.
About RISD Academic and Creative Partnerships The Emmett Till Memory Project is exemplary of partnerships we value most at RISD: creative cross-pollination that elevates the curiosity, empathy, practice, and ambition of all participants. Our hands-on approach to learning and making leads to engagements with organizations focused on art, technology, fashion, music, architecture, design, transportation, and more. Academic and Creative Partnerships build on these collaborations to generate opportunities for ongoing innovation.
Producer: Amy Devers ETMP Site, Assets, and Drone Photography provided by: Includedhttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/partnerships_documentaries/1003/thumbnail.jp
Celebration | Recognizing Asian Art and Religion
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Celebration | Recognizing Asian Art and Religion
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Celebration | Recognizing Asian Art and Religion
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Inside the Design Science Studio | Loeb Selections Exhibition
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