On was an interdisciplinary graduate periodical established by RISD graduate students in 2006. It featured essays and student work that related to a general issue theme. On was intended as a quarterly publication, but it is unclear if further issues beyond the first were ever published.
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Documentary Film: Wintersession Shoe Design 2016
Zexi Qi, Kathleen S. Grevers, Apparel Design Department, and RISD Global
Short film documenting the RISD Global Wintersession Shoe Design 2016 class trip to Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium to inspire innovative approaches to and broaden concepts of footwear design.
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The Aesthetic Experiences of Aura, Awe, and Wonder: Reflections on Their Nature and Relationships
Russell Quacchia
The aim of this essay is to examine the semantic nature and linkage between the experiential phenomena of aura, awe, and wonder, central to matters of the aesthetic experience. In aesthetic commentary these terms are generally used rather loosely, often independently of each other and, most often, without regard to the connections between them. It would seem worthwhile to examine the nature of each of these terms to move toward understanding them and their mutual relationships. The conclusions drawn are that the aura effect appears to operate universally at the cognitive level of the aesthetic experience while those of awe and wonder appear to be special cases operating at the affective level of the aesthetic experience, wherein our appreciative dispositions, bearing them, take form.
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Post Campaign Artists and Designers in Action
RISD Research and RISD Archives
Advertisement for a RISD Community meeting to contemplate the meaning of the 2016 Presidential Election and next steps for political and cultural engagement.
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Collection 2016 NYFW Show
Rhode Island School of Design, Chris Mena, Taylor Greenberg Goldy, and Annice Chen
PLEASE NOTE: The audio has been removed from this file due to copyrighted material.
The garments shown here represent 10 student collections from the senior 2016 Apparel Design class.
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The Aesthetic and Its Resonances: A Reply to Kathleen M. Higgins, Carolyn Korsmeyer, and Mariana Ortega
Monique Roelofs
This essay offers replies to the critical commentaries on The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic presented by Kathleen M. Higgins, Carolyn Korsmeyer, and Mariana Ortega. The essay shows how the probing questions and criticisms that the three commentators raise bring out details in the framework of relationality, address, and promises through which the book theorizes the aesthetic.
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On the Other Side
PatriciaM. Smith, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
15 unnumbered pages (single folded sheet) : illustrations . Issued in an edition of 50. Library has no. 36. Issued in a screen printed folded box. Double folded accordion fold book with text and imagery running in both directions. Can be opened up and viewed as a single continuous image. "Screen printed on Rives Lightweight paper"--Colophon. SUMMARY: "On the Other Side is a collaborative work between French artist Claire Fouquet and American book artist Patty Smith that addresses issues of emigration. The concept originated as a response to the fences built by the United States to keep out illegal immigrants and by the French government's policy on immigration. The book is a two-sided accordion with the recto side listing the fears that might be experienced by the emigrant. The cut windows entice the viewer to turn the concertina inside out. The verso side describes potential advantages, opportunities, and joys that might lead one "to appreciate the unfamiliar". The work is also a comment on internal anxiety that prevents us from moving forward in our personal lives. Some obstacles, seemingly threatening and impossible to surmount, may be the product of our fear of failure or the unfamiliar. These illusions, manufactured by uncertainty, can be transcended through personal resolve and collective effort." -- Women's Studio Workshop website
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Commencement 2016 President Rosanne Somerson
Rosanne Somerson and RISD President
RISD President Rosanne Somerson gives a welcoming address at RISD Commencement 2016.
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Documentary Film: Wintersession Shoe Design 2016: Stahl Campus
Stahl, Apparel Design Department, and RISD Global
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Context clues
Brynn Trusewicz
Context Clues explores the tensions between identity and appearance, especially as it relates to queer identities and the bodies that carry them.
It assumes that identity and appearance aren’t always straight forward or line up in expected ways.
It aims to expose our discomfort about this uncertainty.
It explores how we look at and evaluate others; what we observe and what we fill in.
It compares how we look at others and how we look to others.
It critiques the absurdity of how people perceive and interact with each other, by putting them in uncomfortable scenarios and exaggerating awkward situations.
It examines how we learn to interact by observing others and how, like spies, we begin to decode identity.
It confronts social norms and etiquette around appearance-based assumptions and stereotypes.
This body further considers what it means to re-categorize people. While we tend to think of categories as fixed, these interventions force active participants to confront the tensions, along with the fluidity of, identity and appearance.
