"The first graduate program at RISD was established in 1957 with the MS in Art Education with the first MFA programs starting in 1961. We now have 16 graduate programs with 2 more being added in 2018.The core of any graduate program is concentrated and advanced study in an academic or professional field. Compared with undergraduate studies, graduate education is focused on producing original contributions to a field, based on research and advance practice. Graduate programs also provide the opportunity for more applied experience via internships, teaching or research. This is essential for RISD’s commitment to furthering the importance of art and design in the world and in producing distinguished professional and academic leaders." -Pradeep Sharma, RISD Provost 2014-2017

This collection presents student Masters Theses submitted and approved as graduation requirements from each of the 16 departments offering a graduate degree: Architecture, Ceramics, Digital + Media, Furniture Design, Glass, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Interior Architecture, Jewelry + Metalsmithing, Landscape Architecture, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Teaching + Learning in Art and Design, and Textiles. Postgraduate writing and research is also included.

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Theses from 2023

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Cities of Tomorrow Future Urban Planning Strategies, Jingyu Ge

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you're making me sentimental, Chris Geng

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Soul Furnace / فرن الأرواح, Isa Ghanayem

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Mini Makers: Designing Curriculum for Community-Based Arts Education, Hayden Goldberg

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Landscape De/Re-Construction through Art, Manuel Gonzalez

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Freedom is a Leaky System: Living Together in the Mess, Calgary Haines-Trautman

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Manifesto of Poor Images: Re-imagine Guggenheim in the Post-digital Age, Mengning He

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Superbland, Dougal Henken

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Crossover Logics, Serena Ho

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The Common Destiny of Living Creatures, Xiaodai Huang

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To Melt, Huanzhe Hu

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Describe the city you live in, Jingfei Hu

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Liquid Border, YINGFAN JIA

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Myths, Legends, and Landscapes, Oromia Jula

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Distance: A collection of studies of Human-Computer interaction to explore human emotions and relationships, Jinha Kang

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Old and New: Intervention in Space and Material, Yoonji Kang

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Means and Meaning, Chloe Kaylor

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Sanctuary, Harsha Kejriwal

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Connective Movements, Ian Keliher

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Urban Succession: an ecocentric urbanism, Anthony Kershaw

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A Room Full of Pigeons and Three Spectators, Dina Khorchid and Dina Nazmi Khorchid

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Adding Subtraction: Wasting Time in Space, Daeun Kim

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NEW CHAPTER, Gunju Kim

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A Cloud Above, Jiwon Kim

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Invisible Systems, Mina Kim

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You are cordially (un)invited: My Korean Femme Strategy and Aspiration for Survival and Queer Futures, Nahyun Kim

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Greening Seoul : A New Toolkit for Adaptive Reuse, Woojae Kim

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Curiosity Beyond the Hidden, Yi Young Kim

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Hearts and Minds, Steven Knapp

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An Architect's Toolkit for Color Theory, ella knight

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Press Play, Karan Kumar

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Metaphors in Materials and Imagery for Self Reclamation and Empowerment, Janice Lardey

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WAST3D POTENTIAL, Andrew Larsen

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Searching for New Landscapes, Halim Lee

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Moving at the Speed of Trust, Sun Ho Lee

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A.R. Futuristic Scenario in Seun, Yookyung Lee

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margins (i nvr needed acceptance from all u outsiders), Jahi Lendor

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Algorithmic Mirage: The Enigma of Black Box Algorithm, Brenda Li

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Sustainable Seismic Architecture: Exploring the Synergy of Mortise-and-Tenon Joinery and Modern Timber Construction for Reducing Embodied Carbon, Cong Li

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Food, Drink, Time, New Year and Cloth, Jian Li

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Recipes for Building Relationships, Adriana Lintz

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FLOWS OF SOUND “Harnessing Sound As Critical Urban Resources”, Zuan Lin

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Eviction to Placement: Rethinking the current supportive housing systems for hidden homeless families, Fang-Min Liou

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Temporary urbanism-spatial democracy in the temporary city, Shijie Li

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Water Relations, Understanding Our Relationship to Water: Through Research, Diagrams, and Glass, Tian Li

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MODERN NOMADISM ——A network of reciprocal moorings, Jinting Liu

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The Mobile Senior University, YOUSHURUI LI

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Access in Ambiguity, Moritz Lónyay

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Objects of Daydreaming, Aaron Lorenz

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Bridging Empathy, Qianwen Lu

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Exploring Permanent Temporariness: A Look into the Palestinian Experience through Refugee Camps, Tamara Malhas

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Entrelazados, Agustina Markez

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Explorations and Reflections: Gendered Experiences in Teaching and Learning, Francesca Matarese

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“Little Old Wales”: Expressions of Nationalism, Language and Pride in Welsh Football, Abigail Mathieson

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Living in Untranslatability--Performance Art in China and USA, Ziyun Ma

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A Study of Dwelling, Julia McArthur

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cuando lloro, Melissa Medina

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Appropriate that Bridge: Appropriation as a way of Intervention, Haochen Meng

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Cyberflesh: The Me I've Made for You, Jordan Metz

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Toronto Rewilded, Forrest Meyer

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Enhancing Wellbeing In Public Landscape Through Light, Ruiqing Miao

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CRACKS OF THE CITY: Crack as an invitation for informality, Yusha Miao

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Confronting and Caring for Spaces of Service, Tia Miller

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Luminous Eating, Ayesha Mohyuddin

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The Root of Culture: Human Ritual and the Soils of West Virginia, Aleece Mount

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Making That Carries Over, Jae Nam

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Migratory Material: Epigenetics & Weaving at the US-Mexico Border, Valerie Navarrete

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Reorientation, Soleil Nguyen

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Celebrate Scarcity: Water Harvesting as Cultural Keystone, Jiajun Ni

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Vanitas, Sae Jung Oh

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The De-centering of Architecture, Uthman Olowa

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Infinitely Incredible Configurations, Jenni Oughton

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Partial Eclipse, Christopher Pak

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Destined Failure, Chengjun Pan

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[De]Composition: Grounding Architecture, Skylar Perez

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In a Condition of No Light, Alana Perino

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Virtual Fantasy, Joey Petrillo

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Soft City: Reclaiming Urban Public Spaces for Play, Jennifer Pham

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making pla(y)ces: softening the city through play, Shivani Pinapotu

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Surfacing: a (loose) manual on unlayering / stuff-making and hypervisibility, Zoë Pulley

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We Have a (Home) - Co-operative Homes for Sunset Park, Lisa Qiu

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OtherWorldly Gestures, Sadia Quddus

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Interstice, Shravan Rao

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Coast to Coast, Zeyuan Ren

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Elusive Geometry, Lauren Richards

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Machine Kinship: The impossible duet, Diana Sanchez

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Input / Output, Zach Scheinfeld

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Particular Proceedings, Ingrid Schmaedecke

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Objects and Apparitions: A Portable Museum, Yesuk Seo

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The Incremental Ecosystem: Hybridizing Self-Built + Conventional Processes as a Solution to Urban Expansion, Shayne Serrano

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Citizens of the English Language: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Postcolonial India, Prateek Shankar

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From John Street to Union, Andrew Shea

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Orchestration of Experience, Jingyi Shen

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Liberdade para quem? - Layered Histories, Vanessa Shimada

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Overlooked Modi Vivendi, Natalia Silva

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Design: A Path to Agency, Design thinking: An Educational Imperative, seva simone

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A body finding freedom within itself, Malda Smadi

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Instances of the Spirit (Glossary), Kamari A. Smalls

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Surface Tear, Alexandra Soiseth

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Finding the Balance, Danyang Song