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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Monkey Island, Roger Williams Park, Providence, RI
Berger Bros., Providence, RI: publisher; Visual + Material Resources; and Fleet Library
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New England Telephone Building, Providence, RI
Berger Bros., Providence, RI: publisher; Visual + Material Resources; and Fleet Library
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On Drill Field U.S. Navel Training Station, Newport, RI
Berger Bros., Providence, RI: publisher; Visual + Material Resources; and Fleet Library
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Rhodes on the Pawtuxet, Interior Casino, Pawtuxet, RI
Berger Bros., Providence, RI: publisher; Visual + Material Resources; and Fleet Library
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Union Station, Providence
Berger Bros., Providence, RI: publisher; Visual + Material Resources; and Fleet Library
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JUGAATRONICS
Monica Bhyrappa
Jugaatronics is a body of work that aims to address the current e-waste issues by designing consumer electronics that are repurposable, creating new electronics and objects. This project is born from the cultural practice of 'Jugaad' - the practice of repurposing everyday objects to extend their usability, a form of frugal innovation deeply embedded in my upbringing in India.
Most electronic devices are often discarded at the first sign of malfunction—deemed unnecessary. My thesis highlights this throwaway culture by integrating the concept of Jugaad(repurpose) into the lifecycle of electronic products, demonstrated as a hairdryer.
By showcasing potential repurposing opportunities at every stage/level of product death, Jugaatronics showcases the potential each product contains beyond its intended function and form, through small yet mighty design changes for a more sustained yet compatible lifespan of a product.
This now creates compatibility with existing daily objects to create a community of people who can jugaad with ease in a system which benefits both the consumer and the earth. My thesis now encompasses an ecosystem containing an app, website and open-sourceable product compatibility system to highlight sustainability efforts along with user satisfaction.
In summary, "Jugaatronics" is more than a design project; it is a call to action for both designers and consumers to reconsider how electronics are consumed and disposed of. By leveraging the ‘Design for Repurpose’ strategy, this project aims to demonstrate that with jugaad thinking and innovative design, we can significantly reduce e-waste and move towards a more eco-conscious future.
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Conimicut Point Light, Narragansett Bay, RI
Blanchard, Young & Co., Providence, RI: publisher; Visual + Material Resources; and Fleet Library
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NY, NH and Hartford Railway Station, Providence, RI
Blanchard, Young & Co., Providence, RI: publisher; Visual + Material Resources; and Fleet Library
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St. Peter's Church, Manton, RI
Blanchard, Young & Co., Providence, RI: publisher; Visual + Material Resources; and Fleet Library
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Union Station, State House and Normal School, Providence, RI
Blanchard, Young & Co., Providence, RI: publisher; Visual + Material Resources; and Fleet Library
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Union Station, State House and Normal School, Providence, RI
Blanchard, Young & Co., Providence, RI: publisher; Visual + Material Resources; and Fleet Library
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Frontier: Land, Architecture, and Abstraction
Jacob Boatman
The abstraction of land is a colonial process by which physical land is transformed into a conceptual or symbolic entity. This transformation occurs through various economic, architectural, and cultural practices that imbue land with abstract values, meanings, and functions beyond its physicality. This includes the division of land into parcels for economic transactions, the design and construction of built environments that shape human interactions with the land, and the cultural narratives and representations that ascribe significance to particular landscapes. Through abstraction, colonial powers devalue indigenous perspectives and relationships to the land, reducing them to mere obstacles in the path of “progress” and profit. Land ceases to be a living, interconnected ecosystem and instead becomes a tool of subjugation, a symbol of colonial authority imposed upon indigenous territories.
The sight of these abstractions is the Frontier.
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Consideration for the Sun
Roxy Bridges, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
LIBRARIAN'S CHOICE PURCHASE PRIZE | $250 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 11th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening reception and award ceremony Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 6:30pm, Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Roger S. Williams.
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Robinson House, Saunderstown, RI
E. E. Briggs, Saunderstown, RI; Visual + Material Resources; and Fleet Library
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Old Union Station (now demolished), Providence, RI
Callender, McAuslan and Troup Co., Providence, RI: publisher; Visual + Material Resources; and Fleet Library
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Trans-species Communication, Fueled by Efforts of Remediation
Naomi Canino
Using science fiction pop culture and films as a basis to reposition the way that we think about communicating with plants as if they are sentient beings capable of human-like qualities, the process in which I intend to understand communication will be nestled in this fantastical, sci-fi realm of envisioning the world.
By analyzing existing forms of communication between humans, other living entities and themselves, I am challenging existing perspectives in order to propose new speculative processes of bio-based augmentation that can amplify a connection to plants. In order to pursue this exploration, I have chosen a real site in the world that is being affected by a human-caused environmental impact to act as a catalyst to the world that I am envisioning, such as the process of mountaintop removal which has led to the contamination and pollution of many ecological processes within its proximity.
This creative, science fiction speculation becomes an analogy to the human stewardship of our earth, our relationship to the world around us, and a proposition for us to deepen our communion plants as a whole body and spirit experience. If our current ways of interacting with the earth were based more on ‘associative empathy’, then we, as humans, would not engage in operations that are for the sole purpose of human benefit.
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Maxime Cavajani Movement Lab Fellowship Final Presentation
Maxime Cavajani and Movement Lab
May 14th 2024, Fellowship Final Presenation
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video through | Week 1: on montage
Maxime Cavajani and Movement Lab
Presentation outline and links to artist references discussed and screened in Week 2, on Day 2 On Montage + Editing.
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video through | Week 2: technical information for DSLR
Maxime Cavajani and Movement Lab
Technical information and diagrams describing the function and relationship of aperture settings, ISO sensitivitiy, shutter speed, focal length, and exposure when shooting with a DSLR camera.
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video through | Week 3: presentation of video installations
Maxime Cavajani and Movement Lab
Outline of artists references screened on Week 3, Day1.
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video through | Wintersession 2024 Syllabus
Maxime Cavajani and Movement Lab
This course is entitled video through because it aims to question how video allows us to think through time and through space simultaneously. In this course we will consider video as space, material, and matter. In an approach that prioritizes experimentation in space, we will work in a non-linear fashion: fabricating video in space and fabricating space with video _ a constant back and forth. From those experiments we will learn how to use the properties of video editing, video-making, shooting, projecting/screening as interconnected tools that deny a singular trajectory of making.
The classroom will become a site. We are going to reject the notion of the studio as solely a place “to record” content. Rather, we will bring content into the space so that the studio can become a displaced site. This displacement is generative because it allows us to complicate the notions of subjects, bodies, agents. The bodies - our bodies - who are going to be in this new “site” are going to become agents of a semi-tangible space. Troubling this question of the space in which recording, and projecting can happen at once will allow us to explore the conceptual possibilities that video offers. It will also allow us to explore questions of memory, time, recording, projection, imaging, re-memory, erasure, subject, voice, performer/performance and more… Through series of experiments, we will explore the reciprocal interrelationships between the technicalities and the poetics of video installation.
A key reading for this class is The Skin of the Film, which will be a key resource to understanding the theoretical and conceptual implications of our experimentations. In lecture presentations we will learn about and discuss a multiplicity of practices that spans multiple genres and media. To make of this experimental class a space and time of shared knowledge, active participation is required. In fact, our class will require embodiment. We will learn collectively, from one another and by trying. To learn from those experiments, we will aim to produce records during class time and build a collective archive that will help support each student’s personal project. During this class each student (or pair TBD) will work towards a final video installation presented in an event open to the public.
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2024 MLK Celebration: An Evening of Art & Justice
Center for Social Equity & Inclusion, Gabrielle Bullock, Walter Cruz, Salamishah Tillet, and Prism of Praise Community Gospel Choir
The signature event of our 2024 MLK Series celebration was held on Wednesday, January 17 at the RISD Auditorium from 6–7:30 pm. An Evening of “Art and Justice” included a panel discussion featuring architect Gabrielle Bullock, multidisciplinary creative Walter Cruz and scholar/activist Salamishah Tillet, and a performance by the Prism of Praise Community Gospel Choir. Panelists were introduced by Vice President of Social Equity and Inclusion David T. Carreon Bradley. The panel co-moderators were Naimah Petigny, a Schiller family assistant professor in race in art and design, and Njari Anderson BRDD 24 SC, a fifth-year student in the Brown|RISD Dual Degree Program.
This event was open to RISD community members and the general public. Also on Jan 17, we hosted our first-ever MLK CommuniTea, a refreshment hour open to all RISD students, faculty and staff.
Read more about the 2024 event.
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Barracks B, US Naval Training Station, Newport
Chas. D. Dadley, Newport, RI; Visual + Material Resources; and Fleet Library
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On the Impulse to Notate
Lydia Chodosh
On the Impulse to Notate assembles an array of dialogic encounters. Composed in fragments — written and collected, designed and curated — this catalog resists linear narrative formulas to favor an open poetic syntax.
Here, the designer relies on her propensity to notate, aggregate, and persistently recompose.
She materializes language that promotes movement toward knowledge and craft in conversation.
She reads and translates stories spatially, frequently shifting their frames.