The 5th Biennial Design Science Symposium
Friday, April 15 at 10:00am to 10:30pm
Metcalf Auditorium at the Chace Center (20 N. Main Street), Edna Lawrence Nature Lab (13 Waterman Street), and Prov/Wash (20 Washington Place).
The Design Science Symposium is an interactive meeting of makers, thinkers, practitioners, and educators that will be happening from April 15th to 17th.
STEAM Intelligence stands for multidisciplinary thinking that relies on actively integrating and applying Science, Technology, Engineering, Art +Design, and Math.
Themes for the 2016 Symposium include whole systems thinking, bio design, and biomimicry; looking to and learning from nature.
Keynote speakers for this year’s symposium are Haresh Lalvani, Bill Browning, John C. Warner, and Rebecca Kamen.
Space Weaving, a new exhibition curated by Amy Leitdke, RISD Senior Critic in Industrial Design, will be on view. The show will feature the work of sculptor Dennis Dreher, who is a former colleague of R. Buckminster Fuller.
Symposium participants attending on Saturday will co-create a large outdoor inflatable sculpture with Pneuhaus, a design collective co-founded by Matthew Muller (RISD BFA ’14, Furniture Design) and August Lehrecke (RISD BFA ’14, Furniture Design), that works within the fields of spatial design, temporary structures, and contemporary art.
RISD Faculty and students register free. For full event details, visit: designscience.risd.edu.