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Convocation 2025
No full textRISD\u27s 148th Convocation ceremony welcoming the Class of 2029 at RISD Auditorium, September 2, 2025.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/president_convocation/1013/thumbnail.jp
Design Science 2025 | Geometry of Uncertainty, Presentation: Anastasiia Raina
No full textAnastasiia Raina is a biodesigner, researcher, and educator. She earned her MFA from the Yale School of Art and now serves as an Associate Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Her work investigates the aesthetics of technologically mediated nature, inspiring new imaginaries that challenge our relationship to nature, technology, and humanity. In close collaboration with scientists, she transforms scientific research into visual language and develops novel frameworks for science communication that engage broader audiences. Anastasiia has exhibited internationally in New York, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Seoul, presented her research and served as a visiting critic at institutions including Yale, Columbia, Stanford, USC, UCLA, Parsons, Pratt, CalArts, Otis, and MICA. Her work has been supported by grants from the Hyundai Motor Group, the Somerson Sustainability Innovation Fund, the NEW INC + Science Sandbox Grant, and NSF’s STAC Collaborative Research Grant
Design Science 2025 | Geometry of Uncertainty
No full texthttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/naturelab_designscience2025photos/1038/thumbnail.jp
Design Science 2025 | Geometry of Uncertainty
No full texthttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/naturelab_designscience2025photos/1002/thumbnail.jp
Design Science 2025 | Geometry of Uncertainty
No full texthttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/naturelab_designscience2025photos/1008/thumbnail.jp
For the Time Beings
No full textFor the Time Beings is a socially engaged installation and artist book exploring the material consequences and future possibilities of sociocultural time theories. Time, in the West, is typically associated with Newtonian linearity, while in the East, time theory relies on Buddhist principles. These epistemologies reinforce hierarchical and patriarchal structures. Centered on Indigenous Asian and Asian American perspectives, For the Time Beings challenges dominant ideologies of existing in time and space.
For nearly a year, I’ve burned handwritten prayers on new and full moons. The ashes of these prayers are incorporated into reverential drawings of chosen ancestors, made with charcoal and thread on 한지 hanji. Fire-treated portraits form the backdrop for communal manifestations collected on-site and online. Hand-treated ritualistic objects, atmospheric lighting, and an immersive soundscape further transform the space.
The artist book contains interviews from members of my artistic and spiritual communities: Cori Nakamura Lin (a Japanese, Okinawan, and Taiwanese American visual artist and cultural worker), Billy Lor (a Hmong American master shaman and cultural consultant), and Mudang Jenn (a Korean American shaman and artist). Connecting my work to the personal interviews are autotheoretical essays on the project’s artistic research and methods. The book and formal elements of the artwork emphasize the nonlinear, cyclical, and cumulative aspects of time
Pop-Ups! Paper Engineering of Constructed Spaces
No full texthttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/exhibition_2025popupspaperengineeringconstructedspaces_hirsch/1005/thumbnail.jp
Pop-Ups! Paper Engineering of Constructed Spaces
No full texthttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/exhibition_2025popupspaperengineeringconstructedspaces_hirsch/1012/thumbnail.jp
Andrea Dezsö | Foraged Color
No full texthttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/exhibition_2025andreadezso_foragedcolor/1001/thumbnail.jp
Andrea Dezsö | Foraged Color
No full texthttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/exhibition_2025andreadezso_foragedcolor/1002/thumbnail.jp