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100 Days For Birth, Danielle Kim, Special Collections, Fleet Library

9th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2023

LAURIE WHITEHILL PURCHASE PRIZE | $375 Purchase prize winners receive a cash reward and the books are added to the Fleet Library at RISD Special Collections' Artists' Book collection. Entry for the 9th Annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, March 02, 2023, Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Andre Lee Bassuet.

The Road Trip, Jules Sharpe, Special Collections, Fleet Library

9th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2023

Entry for the 9th Annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, March 02, 2023, Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Andre Lee Bassuet.

Category: Teenage Lesbians, Luna Tobar, Special Collections, Fleet Library

9th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2023

Entry for the 9th Annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, March 02, 2023, Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Andre Lee Bassuet.

Sunflower 向日葵, Shrume Zuo, Special Collections, Fleet Library

9th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2023

Entry for the 9th Annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, March 02, 2023, Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Andre Lee Bassuet.

Linear Language, Selina Kehuan Wu, Special Collections, Fleet Library

10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2024

Entry for the 10th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Ian Cozzens BArch 05.

Kiss/Caress, Laurie Green

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

Like many aspects of self, my sexuality remained under wraps for the first three decades of my life. I felt desexualised in my body, unaware of my autism but deeply aware of my alienation and social position. Unable to find a sexual reflection in popular culture and bombarded with tropes of toxic masculinity I turned my sexual desires inwards. Only with my closest confidant, my partner, did any semblance of sexuality emerge, mediated by images and symbols imbibed as a teenager. My deep desire for connection that extended into sexuality felt ossified and unaired—kept in an air-sealed wrapper, like a …

Designing A Master Of Art And Design: Student-Staff Reflections On First-Year Experiences As A Process, Diana Gregory

Faculty Articles

In fall 2019, four staff in the School of Art and Design were charged with designing the first graduate degree in the College of the Arts, a Master of Art in Art and Design (MA). This reflective essay will serve much like an artistic critique of student-staff reflections on the process and products of our first-year experience through our lived experience from inception 2019 through spring 2022. This journey delineates the attitudes and intentions that are supporting the emergence of our student-staff partnership. I am illuminating these concepts from an artistic perspective to showcase the foundational cognitive and emotional processes …

52 Nanotone Symphonies, Anthony Elia

Bridwell Library Research

The 52 Nanotone Symphonies is a work of expanding and contracting nature, which reflects the paradox of size, length, speed, and tone of a work: a symphony is traditionally a massive orchestral work with many interactive parts, while a tone is an elemental form of sound, at the foundational level of music. This work distorts and challenges those categories, allowing for each measure (in 12 + 4 time) to constitute an entire "symphony" of sound in miniature: using a single piano (keyboard or organ) instead of orchestra. Performers are encouraged to play each as slow or fast as they wish. …

Children As Design Visionaries, Learners, And Socio-Political Wayfinders: Mapping The Layers, Hierarchies, And Rhythms Of A School Community, Natalie R. Davis, Roni Barsoum

Occasional Paper Series

Despite the seemingly intractable problems of public schooling, we (as researchers and dreamers) remain encouraged by the persistent efforts to reconfigure and reimagine the sociopolitical landscape of schools. We begin this essay by recognizing the work of individuals bravely and imperfectly expanding notions of what schools could and should be. We stand in solidarity with the innovators sowing, designing, and reaching toward more just social futures, dreaming of schools for children that are not so distant from the paradise Butler (2001) describes (Figure 1). This liberatory dreamwork coincides with long histories of communal ingenuity (Vossoughi et al., 2016), resistance against …

The Art Of Social Justice, Jennifer Miles, Laura Dawson

Humboldt Journal of Social Relations

As this HJSR special issue on social justice unfolded, it became clear to the editorial team that this publication would be incomplete without addressing the well-documented role of art in social justice movements. We asked two of our managing editors, Jennifer Miles and Laura Dawson, to research and write about this area of social action. They interviewed two artists, a spoken word performer and a visual artist, both of whom understand their art as part of larger social justice projects. These artists raise awareness, highlight obstacles and avenues for change, and create space for solidarity and sanctuary. The following montage …

Visualization Research: Scoping Review On Data Visualization Courses, Fabio Capra-Ribeiro

Faculty Publications

Understanding data visualization as one of the foundational skills of the 21st century, this research aimed to define up-to-date guidelines to effectively teach data visualization courses and–from there–developed the first version of a new data visualization course. To do so, it faced the following questions: What is the current role of data visualization in higher education? What have been the main trends in data visualization courses in higher education? What methodologies have been used to teach data visualization courses? What difficulties have been identified in data visualization courses? What recommendations have been offered by previous professors that have taught this …

Comic Literature And Graphic Novel Uses In History, Literature, Math, And Science, James O. Barbre Iii, Justin Carroll, Joshua Tolbert

SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education

Graphic novels and comics have a rich history and have long served as a medium for both education and entertainment. Although we live in an increasingly technology-rich era which offers abundant visual stimulation to compete with comics, graphic literature is arguably a more immediate and robust resource than ever before. The following paper highlights specific applications of graphic literature to pedagogical purposes, including implications for the use of comics in teaching history, world languages, English as a new language, science, and mathematics. Across these areas, a wide degree of application exists for teachers, in both K-12 and post-secondary settings. In …

Vaccinate: Posters From The Covid-19 Pandemic, Aaron Sutherlen, Judy Diamond, Meghan Leadabrand, Julia Mcquillan, St Patrick Reid

Zea E-Books Collection

In 2022 we are living through a global pandemic, and vaccines are one of the most effective strategies for slowing the spread of infectious disease, minimizing symptoms, and lowering healthcare demands. In short, vaccines save lives and can reduce the risk of contagion from social interaction.

In the United States in late 2021, after the vaccines had been broadly available for almost a year, one in five adults still chose not to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Art can disrupt what is embedded in our minds and open us up to new perspectives and insights. We hope to offer access to …

Hacia La Preservación De Los Relatos De Las Comunidades Digitales De Los Mmorpg Mediante Etnografías Digitales: Una Mirada Desde Los Estudios Visuales Al Caso Futur0 Server [2005-2012] De Ragnarok Online, Romano Ponce Díaz

Journal of Roleplaying Studies and STEAM

Resumen: La ponderación planteada en los siguientes párrafos centra su interés en las plataformas digitales de narrativa audiovisual donde los participantes pueden alterar y determinar el relato por medio de la interacción social sucedida en el mismo, concretamente, los videojuegos multijugador masivos de rol en línea en servidores emulados. Además, se abordan las implicaciones de la desaparición potencial y real de la información, datos, testimonios y vestigios de estas comunidades digitales participativas a causa de la naturaleza falible de los dispositivos de almacenaje electrónico. De esa forma, se busca plantear un breve panorama general de los antecedentes históricos de las …

Art: The Beautiful, Relieving Agent For Mental Illness, Stella G. Newmoyer

Composition Exemplars

Art: the Beautiful, Revealing Agent for Mental Illness is aimed to present a thorough analysis of the relationship between art and mental illness. With this proposal, I show the hidden meanings behind some art works, The Starry Night and Kaleidoscope Cat V11, and how the importance of creation gives to others. Creation allows people with mental illness to express their personal experiences liberally on a medium, to potentially release their tension they may hold inside their mind. As my research proposal demonstrates, art provides individuals with a sense of unattachment from reality, by allowing them to freely express their mental …

Q&A With Abigale Mallery (Bfa Painting), Abigale Mallery

Q & A Interviews with Art Students

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Q&A With Carter King (Bfa Graphic Design), Carter King

Q & A Interviews with Art Students

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Michelangelo Buonarroti And Homophobia In The Renaissance, Grace T. O. Ray

The Confluence

Tommaso de’ Cavalieri was a young man with an aristocratic background when he first met famous artist Michelangelo Buonarroti in Rome. Tommaso was known to be an incomparable physical beauty, with intelligence and elegant manners, as well as being a member of one of the most illustrious families of Rome—the Orsini. Some have said this is what drew the artist to Cavalieri from the start. Though not much is known about their encounter, it is confirmed that Cavalieri remained a close and loyal companion to Michelangelo for thirty-two years until the artist’s death in 1564. Furthermore, throughout their years together …

Creating A 1940s Costume: A Historical Investigation, Jennifer Mott

The Confluence

The purpose of this Art History research investigation was to create a costume from the 1940s by immersing myself in a time period when people often made their own clothing. This was done to better understand what it means to have a personal connection to the items I wear. Our experiences as consumers in the twenty-first century are vastly different than those belonging to the people that lived during the mid-twentieth century because almost all of our clothing is purchased from corporations and created by people that we will likely never meet. For this investigative study, I shopped for and …

Ones To Watch

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Emerging Design Talents 2022: Culture Future
2022年度設計展: 文化未來

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SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

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Architecture - Mario Cucinella On Green Architecture

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Architect Mario Cucinella shares his insights on building Green Architecture through collective intelligence, empathy and social responsibility alongside skillful designs.

Report - Vr For Pain Management

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

HKDI has worked with different stakeholders on "VR for Pain Management", a well-being design project which adopts design thinking and innovative approach of digital media to develop a pain management experience for patients. The objective of the project is to provide a pleasant, low risk and easily tolerated option for the patients through VR game solution in order to achieve a medication-free surgery and operation.

Architecture - The Future Of Urbanism

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Patrik Schumacher, Principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, discusses high-rise, topology optimisation and vertical urbanism in his inspiring Master Lecture at HKDI.

Theme - A Feel For The Future Of Bioengineering

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Smashing martial arts boards with your prosthetic hand is not in the user manual, but, if it is called the Ability Hand, and if it is capable of doing that, then why not? Impressively, the same hand is also able to pick up individual raspberries with ease. Once a staple of science fiction, the future of bionic prosthetics is already here.

Beyond Design

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Martine Bedin recollects her Memphis days, where furniture existed beyond functions, and designs transcended borders.

Theme - A Step Beyond Wrapping Products

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

For all its ubiquity and diversity, product packaging doesn't get the attention it deserves. What attention it does get is usually negative, and for good reason, as plastic packaging is choking the world's waterways and wreaking havoc on delicate ecosystems. However, there are important developments underway in the world of packaging, and we talk to industry thought leader Dr. Claire Sand to discover what is on the horizon for the humble product package.

Theme - Sampling The Future Of Fashion

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Jørgen Sevild's session at HKDI Inspire (see Page 13) gave a peek into the frontier of digital materials technology, and the possibilities for it to reshape the fashion industry. Such a profound change is worthy of a deeper dive, and here we join Sevild to discuss the future of fashion.

Theme - Fungi Stakes A Claim In The Luxury Market

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

When your company's first "alternative leather" product is released in partnership with iconic leatherware brand Hermès, it is an indication that fungi has serious credentials in the luxury fashion industry. Success has been decades in the making, but the people at MycoWorks are convinced they have developed a technology that will push the envelope of sustainable fashion.

Theme - Spider-Inspired Eco-Fabric

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Spinnova is made with minimal water, no harmful chemicals, produces zero micro-plastics, and is fully up-cyclable—the future of textiles may have just arrived.