"What We Do" at Rhode Island School of Design a success!
(Please excuse my bad grammar prior to this edit, Reason: I don't drink coffee but had a double expresso last night, and I got really jittery)
I am glad to announce that "What We Do" at RISD is a success, despite the terrible weather. We started yesterday-- Staurday the 11th at 10 in the morning and ran til 4-- and manage to have 72 speakers present at 6 different student-built spaces around campus. We had a full range of presentations: from alumni talking about designing the next generation hyper-realistic training mannequin for combat medics, to a professor talking about the founding women of RISD, to an artist making string instruments out of found objects, to me talking about a design project with a local high school.
For those who aren't familiar with "What We Do," it is a TED-influenced event designed to showcase the many inspiring things happening at Rhode Island School of Design that are of interest to the surrounding community. Along with three other students, Aaron Perry-Zucker, Justin Rosengarten, and Nate Phipps, we pulled off a day of hectic crazyness. I have to say that I was really impress with the quality of the speakers and could not stop talking to people about what they do. It is also very reassuring for many students to see alumni come back to share their work and talk about how much they enjoyed themselves at RISD. The other impressive feat that we accomplished was getting students out of their studios to build the presentation ventues for the event. Out of all the student-designed spaces, the most striking one is a Tetrahedron Dome design by Nick Tomlin from Industrial Design.
We recorded all the talks and will soon edit and post them on the What We Do blog, so that all of you can learn about the diversity of RISD and what makes us who we are.
