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Mapping Our Tears: RISD CRY
Full text linkRISD CRY is a participatory project empowering the RISD community to share their experiences of emotional vulnerability. The project includes physical sign-in forms in campus facilities, a Google Doc sign-in form, illustrations of participants’ comments, and an online campus map where individuals can mark where they have cried. This multi-format engagement fosters community connection, challenges the stigma surrounding emotional expression, and provides a platform for solidarity among individuals facing stress and burnout.
Beyond its tactical goals, RISD CRY also interrogates the cultural frameworks through which emotional struggle is perceived and processed. It critiques the institutional impulse to measure, diagnose, and pathologize grief, burnout, and distress—reframing them not as personal dysfunctions to be managed, but as natural responses to systemic pressures. The project examines how emotional experience is shaped by the language of psychiatry, productivity, and resilience, and invites a reimagining of how we understand and respond to human vulnerability within institutional spaces
How To Walk On Water: Living Through The Absurd
Full text linkSet in a speculative world submerged by water, this thesis constructs a fragmented, nonlinear narrative that reflects on survival, memory, and displacement in the aftermath of catastrophe. Through three interwoven chapters—The Outcast, The Researcher, and The World—the project explores the emotional and psychological landscapes of individuals navigating a post-apocalyptic existence where the past is irretrievable and the future uncertain. Using an interdisciplinary form of visual storytelling, writing, and sound, the work draws from personal experience and collective trauma to examine how people reconstruct identity and meaning after loss. Rather than offering a definitive answer to existential questions, the narrative invites viewers to dwell in ambiguity, imagining how stories—personal and fictional—can hold space for grief, nostalgia, and resistance
Built for Belonging: An Exploration of the Mutual Adoption Between Human and Home
Full text linkIn Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Halton’s book, The Meaning of Things, they bring to our attention that ‘few English words are filled with the emotional meaning of the word “home”,’ and that many other languages lack even one word with the same connotation. So as one of the unique cultures that has verbalized and contextualized this deep connection to the home, it feels like our responsibility to interrogate it further in order to understand why it exists and how we can design so everyone can experience it. This thesis explores the transformation of space into home and a human into inhabitant. Through methods of humanizing the design process, this thesis demonstrates how we can give architecture a familial dynamic, giving it life, lineage, and character, and thus enriching and empowering that moment of intersection when a person moves into a space. Within that moment, wherein two timelines discover each other, we find that we have the ability to foster a mutual relationship of nature and nurture, a relationship of longevity, and a relationship built for a sense of belonging in order to achieve an architecture where a person can connect with their truest self
Where Motion Lingers...
No full textIn the pursuit of seamlessness, modern technology has become oversimplified, reduced to simple taps and pushes of buttons. This standardized interaction feels distant and mechanical, offering services without inviting touch, movement, or emotion.
This thesis explores how technology can blend into everyday life in a gentle way. The designed objects will focus on integrating familiar movements that elicit moments of harmony within interactions with technology. Through design transformations, this project seeks to uncover how everyday movements, like lifting a handle and placing flowers, can transform our technological exchanges into something felt rather than simply performed.
The findings reveal that when technology responds with the grace of the familiar, it ceases to be just a device. It becomes a beautiful presence, an invitation for users to actively engage. By stepping away from rigid functionality and embracing the flow of everyday movements, design can create experiences that are not only intuitive but also tender, breathing warmth into the relationship between humans and technology
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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Celebration | Recognizing Asian Art and Religion
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Inside the Design Science Studio | Loeb Selections Exhibition
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Inside the Design Science Studio | Loeb Selections Exhibition Poster
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