What 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
April 2nd, 2009 by Aaron Perry-Zucker
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.
What I Do: Laurie Chronley
April 1st, 2009 by Justin RosengartenWhat I Am: Omni (Part II)
March 30th, 2009 by Justin RosengartenWhat I Am: Omni (Part I)
March 30th, 2009 by Justin Rosengarten
What I Am: Omni from Justin Rosengarten on Vimeo.
FRAZIER FESTIVAL!
March 29th, 2009 by admin
What We Do will be closed out with a free concert on Benefit St featuring:
- RISD’s Last Good Tooth
- RISD’s Tallahassee
- and The Good Old War
What I did (for Spring Break)
March 29th, 2009 by Tino ChowThis is hands down the best spring break I have had ever, and it came in my last year of college which is awesome. I co-lead a team of 8 from RISD along with 11 from University of North Alabama came down to Louisiana for a week to help out with the local Habitat for Humanity in the town of Gray.
It was definitely a change of pace from school at RISD and having a week with no school work was definitely refreshing. Having spent a day exploring New Orleans and the nearby area, I could really see the recovery of from past hurricanes, but yet still see reminiscences from hurricane Katrina littered in the outskirts of the city and towns.
What made this the best spring break trip was really the people whom I was with, 8 from my school and 11 from Alabama. For 6 days we bonded through work and after in games and laughter. It is refreshing to meet new people from a different background and with different experiences. You can really never go wrong with bowling and pool, and a little competition can only make things a little more fun.
To really sum up my trip, it was a blast, one that is filled with joy for those who volunteered where we also brought joy to those who worked there and the families whose houses we helped build. You will never know the fruits and joys of what you do til you do it, and we were greatly rewarded.
Minor Space Changes
March 28th, 2009 by Aaron Perry-Zucker
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!
March 21st, 2009 by Aaron Perry-ZuckerThe 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
March 20th, 2009 by Aaron Perry-ZuckerToday 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!