What We Do is a new student-run event designed to showcase the many inspiring things happening at Rhode Island School of Design of interest to the surrounding community. On Saturday, April 11, in six designated locations across RISD’s College Hill campus, 72 students, faculty, staff and alumni will have 20 minutes each to share information about something they do. Topics will range from educational theory, professional and student work, and creating community through art and design to staging zombie attacks, Rhode Island and RISD history, designing medical robots, the art of four square, and a talk about RISD with President John Maeda.

Six members of the RISD community will be presenting what they do at any given time between 10am and 4pm in each of the site-specific “spaces” designed and built by RISD students. These include the waterfront and Market Square (both outside the RISD Auditorium), the Chace Plaza and Moore Terrace (on the north and east side of the Chace Center), Frazier Terrace on Benefit Street (across from the Museum’s Farago entrance) and the RISD Beach (in front of the Residence Life Quad).

Each space will host 12 back-to-back presentations scheduled throughout the day, and every presentation will be recorded and published on whatwedo.risd.edu so that communities beyond RISD and Providence can see what we do and learn, share and be inspired along with us. The day’s events will conclude with a concert on Benefit Street (between Waterman and College streets) featuring Last Good Tooth, Tallahassee and Good Old War.

The entire event is free and open to the public. More information and addresses for the six locations can be found at http://whatwedo.risd.edu.

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Mini sketchbooks were distributed in every RISD student mailboxes today asking everyone “What do you do?” The first page added the text of posters that are going up around campus providing more information and soliciting submissions. The books are meant to act as a jumping-off point, some blank pages for everyone to consider what they do.
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