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Out In Thin Air, Daiqing Zhang

Masters Theses

My work often takes form in experience-charged installations underscored by phenomenology. The whys and hows behind the work mostly remain unspoken, since I would rather my work speak for itself. This writing project offered me the opportunity to comb through and tell the stories and thoughts that informed the work.

I have built a collection of documentation about the experience of having a sensitivity to moments of wonder in everyday life. These archives recorded sensuous imprints in life composed of mundane phenomena. In the collection there are images/footage of a glimpse of light leaking through cloud crevices; a brush of …

Postindustrial Playbook++, Maxwell Fertik

Masters Theses

There is no such thing as an undisrupted ecosystem. Every inch of the planet is impacted by industrial development and its chemical legacy has mutated the soil and water. As a response, this thesis is designed to promote abundant over extractive resources and visualize a post-industrial reality. It consists of a series of objects, writing and design research on the relationship of industry and ecosystem.

In many ways it is a playbook++, laying out possible strategies or “plays’’ for making do with what exists around us amid collapse.

Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica)(ي'ڑ*), a plant that grows in the most degraded …

Making Then Meaning, Ben Denzer

Masters Theses

This is an artist talk contained within a book. It is 816 pages and 49 minutes long. Closed captions run across the spreads. A video of this talk can be watched on bendenzer.com/making-then-meaning

At RISD, I’ve been prompted to expand the scope and tools of my practice and to reflect on questions of meaning in my work.

I spend my days making things, but I’ve never really had good answers to questions of why I make the things I make, or what their meaning is. I don’t think there are simple answers to these questions.

I think meaning comes from …

Translational Placemaking: The Diasporic Archive, Alia Varawalla

Masters Theses

Globalization and mass migration has propelled a hybrid existence, as individuals that occupy multiple geographies we live in a constant state of translation. Our museums and cultural institutions are in opposition to this; static, preserved and de-contextualized. At the intersection of printmaking and architecture, this thesis proposes a living archive to document the collective migratory journey across sites, materials, and hybrid identities. A network of centers for knowledge sharing and production centered on India and its diaspora. As art practices and people migrate, cultural production evolves with its context, gaining new meaning as it changes hands generationally and globally.

Garden Etiquette, Kai Wasikowski

Masters Theses

Garden Etiquette is an ongoing project concerned with landscape photography, environmental conservation, and the way they have both served the settler colonialist agenda. I focus specifically on the conservation ideologies shaped in New South Wales (NSW) Australia and New England, United States of America (USA) in the late nineteenth century and the settler visualities that underwrote them. Both countries’ histories were marked by photography and conservation’s common function of mythologising land as empty space—to be invaded, extracted and occupied, and wilderness—to be territorialized and protected, albeit, in distinct ways.

With British, German and Polish settler ancestry, born and raised on …

A.R. Futuristic Scenario In Seun, Yookyung Lee

Masters Theses

Due to social distancing policies during the coronavirus pandemic, people have increasingly turned to digital platforms to fulfill what they previously enjoyed in face-to-face interactions. The high demand for virtual world services, called “metaverses,” has sparked discussions about the possibility of completely replacing the real world, which has raised questions about the role of architects in dealing with physical spaces. However, it is widely believed that digital elements will merge into the real world instead of completely replacing it, which makes augmented reality (AR) a key technology to study in the context of architecture.

In “Learning from Las Vegas,” Robert …

Navigating Contextualism: An Architectural And Urban Design Study At The Intersection Of Climate, Culture, Urban Development, And Globalization Case Study Of Dire Dawa, Ruth Wondimu

Masters Theses

This thesis investigates architectural typologies that have dominated the world especially in the context of Ethiopia. It critiques the de-contextual nature of the modernist and related typologies through the lens of climate, socio-economic fabric, and urban design. It then focuses on Dire-Dawa University, located in the eastern part of Ethiopia, by investigating the authenticity, functionality, and contextuality of the architectural designs as well as their relationship with the people, urban landscape, and culture. Finally it provides design interventions that mitigate the climate related problems through local solutions.

Offset Magazine, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Offset magazine had a single issue published on March 1, 1997. It was an art zine with photographs, drawings and literature created by RISD students.

Mixed Media May 20, 1996, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The May 20, 1996 issue includes articles, poems, drawings, student events, photos, film stills and comics. Also a calendar of events including Commencement and campus activities for RISD students are in this issue.

Mixed Media May 6, 1996, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The May 6, 1996 issue includes a calendar of events for May 6-May 12, 1996, letters to the editor, comics, poems, photos, drawings. The RISD endowment is described and also RISD faculty evaluations.

Mixed Media April 22, 1996, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The April 22, 1996 issue includes an article about diversity at RISD. Also included are poems, drawings, photographs, comics and letters to the editor.

Your Name Here April 8, 1996, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Your Name Here was a student publication begun in the spring of 1996. The April 8, 1996 issue includes an article about the location of RISD Commencement. Also included are recipes, poems, photographs and comics and a contest to name the student newspaper.

Your Name Here March 25, 1996, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Your Name Here was a student publication begun in the spring of 1996. The March 25, 1996 issue has an article about the RISD faculty contract talks and space issues at RISD. It also includes poems, drawings, photographs and comics.

Juice May 24, 1993, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Juice was a short-form student publication primarily intended to publicize upcoming events occurring on or around campus. The May 24, 1993 issues includes information about RISD Commencement receptions and student shows for the end of the Spring 1993 semester. Final crits and exhibitions are also listed.

Juice May 10, 1993, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Juice was a short-form student publication primarily intended to publicize upcoming events occurring on or around campus. The issue of May 10, 1993 includes listings for student exhibitions, lectures and a film and video series by women.

Juice May 3, 1993, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Juice was a short-form student publication primarily intended to publicize upcoming events occurring on or around campus. The issue for May 3 lists events from May 3-May 8, 1993. Music, films and art exhibits of student and professional artists are listed.

Juice April 12, 1993, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Juice was a short-form student publication primarily intended to publicize upcoming events occurring on or around campus. Lectures, films and events relating to RISD students were listed for the week of April 12-18, 1993. An article from the Village Voice about the performance artist Karen Finley is included.

Juice April 5, 1993, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Juice was a short-form student publication primarily intended to publicize upcoming events occurring on or around campus. Women's Voices and Visions, a film and video series was listed. Lectures, films and evens related to RISD students were also listed.

Juice March 21, 1993, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Juice was a short-form student publication primarily intended to publicize upcoming events occurring on or around campus. RISD's 116th birthday was celebrated on March 22. Lectures, films, and events that related to RISD students were also listed.

Juice March 14, 1993, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Juice was a short-form student publication primarily intended to publicize upcoming events occurring on or around campus. Concerts, exhibitions, and events listed took place on the RISD campus and throughout Providence from March 14 until March 21, 1993.

Juice March 7, 1993, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Juice was a short-form student publication primarily intended to publicize upcoming events occurring on or around campus. The issue for March 7, 1993 includes listings of racial diversity lectures and other lectures, art exhibitions, concerts and films that took place in the Providence area and on the RISD campus during the week of March 8 through March 14, 1993.

Juice March 1, 1993, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Juice was a short-form student publication primarily intended to publicize upcoming events occurring on or around campus. The issue for March 1, 1993 includes information about RISD Cabaret performances, art exhibitions, concerts and other events that took place on the RISD campus and in the Providence area for the week of March 1 through March 6, 1993.

Juice February 21, 1993, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Juice was a short-form student publication primarily intended to publicize upcoming events occurring on or around campus. Concerts, art exhibitions, films and other events on the RISD campus and the Providence area were listed.

Juice February 14, 1993, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Juice was a short-form student publication primarily intended to publicize upcoming events occurring on or around campus. The February 14, 1993 issue listed events relating to Black History Month on the RISD campus and in the Providence area. Art exhibitions, concerts, and films were also listed.

Juice February 7, 1993, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Juice was a short-form student publication primarily intended to publicize upcoming events occurring on or around campus. The issue of February 7, 1993 includes art exhibitions, lectures, classes and events relating to Black History Month that occurred on the RISD campus and the Providence area from February 7 through February 14, 1993. Also included is an article from the November 1992 issue of Art Forum magazine. The article is entitled Royal Slumming by Thomas McEvilley and is about the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Penny Dreadful Commission Comics No. 5, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Penny Dreadful Commission was a student organization that wanted to "demonstrate the range and expressive power of comic art by presenting a varied collection of work." All comics were student-submitted, and the publication was entirely student-run. This is issue No. 5 from May 1, 1989.

Penny Dreadful Commission Comics No. 4, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Penny Dreadful Commission was a student organization that wanted to "demonstrate the range and expressive power of comic art by presenting a varied collection of work." All comics were student-submitted, and the publication was entirely student-run. This is issue No. 4 dated April 1, 1989.

Penny Dreadful Commission Comics No. 3, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Penny Dreadful Commission was a student organization that wanted to "demonstrate the range and expressive power of comic art by presenting a varied collection of work." The issue of March 1, 1989 has a cover that parodies Time magazine.

Penny Dreadful Commission Comics No. 2, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Penny Dreadful Commission was a student organization that wanted to "demonstrate the range and expressive power of comic art by presenting a varied collection of work." This is issue No. 2 dated February 1, 1989.

Penny Dreadful Commission Comics No. 1, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Penny Dreadful Commission was a student organization at RISD that wanted to "demonstrate the range and expressive power of comic art by presenting a varied collection of work." All comics were student-submitted, and the publication was entirely student-run. This is issue No. 1 dated January 1, 1989.