The RISD parking lots will be available for attendees and speakers of What We Do on Saturday. Here is a Google Map with all RISD lots labeled.
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Parking
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Space changes & final schedule
Friday, April 10th, 2009The rain forecast for Saturday, April 11th has forced us to make some changes we were trying to avoid. Our main goal is to accommodate the speakers and their technical requirements that are complicated by the rain. That and not wanting to get everyone wet. We have moved four of the spaces indoors to spaces that are all within eyesight of the original spaces.
Please see this updated schedule and map. Also, here is a google map with all of the spaces showing where buildings are for people unfamiliar.
RISD Students: Volunteer and get a free shirt
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Volunteer at What We Do for one hour and get a free What We Do t-shirt: sign up here!
Start Building this Sunday
Friday, April 3rd, 2009What We Do is a week a way a we are going to start building the spaces this sunday at noon. It is supposed to be sunny and 60 after some morning drizzle so come and enjoy the sun and join in on the building fun. We’ll be all over campus starting to construct the spaces that will house What We Do and we need your help.
Final Schedule and Press Release
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
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.
Minor Space Changes
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
In the interest of easing the burdens for the student volunteers we have decided to make 6 spaces instead of 8. The Upper Quad was too removed and the space between Carr Haus and Waterman wasn’t a very good space. We have shuffled the groups of student volunteers so that there are more majors collaborating on every space. The spaces are in planning mode now but construction will begin on Saturday, April 4th, and continue throughout the week leading up to What We Do on Saturday, April 11th.
All the submissions are in!
Saturday, March 21st, 2009The submission period has ended! We have about 80 excellent submissions that will surely make this a day to experience. If you submitted, expect an email in the next week containing your time and location along with all the other necessary details. We will be publishing a final schedule and list of speakers within the coming week as well. Thank you to all those who submitted, your contributions will make this day truly unique.
Last day to submit
Friday, March 20th, 2009Today is the last day to submit your ideas to What We Do! Go submit them now! We have just about 70 speakers so far and would love to have even more!
Recent Submissions
Friday, March 20th, 2009- Andrew Fogal (FAV ‘09) will share his massive, group, zombie army: Z-Day.
- Steve McDonald (Staff General Counsel) will try to impart why knowing about intellectual property law is so important for art students..
- McCurdy Miller (Staff Public Engagement) will be joined by the senior gift committee to talk about the senior gift.
- Alexander Sayer Gard-Murray (Brown Poli Sci ‘09) will share his experience taking RISD classes and start a discussion about the nature and potential of the RISD-Brown relationship/.
- Dean Robinson (Faculty ID) will share his creation, snappytables.com.
- Steve Brunstein (Staff the Met) will show us how retail/dining works from the inside.
Recent Submissions
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009- Mary Kate Peterson (FAV ‘10) will rant about multi-tasking and following whims.
- Kelly Knapp (LAR ‘10) will present her collaborative, inter-disciplinary Landscape Architecture studio, The Urban Systems Studio.
- Susan Sakash (Staff Public Engagement) will talk about connecting “the public good” to art, design and academic scholarship at RISD.
- Danny Kim (ID ‘09) will share his determination with a presentation.
- Karin Kunori (GD ‘10) wants to make a RISD time capsule.
Submit what you do before this Friday, March 20th.