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  • University Design Research Fellows

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    Description goes hereExhibit Columbus is a program of Landmark Columbus Foundation and an exploration of community, architecture, art, and design that activates the modern legacy of Columbus, Indiana. It creates a two-year cycle of programming that uses the context of Columbus to convene conversations around innovative ideas and then commissions site-responsive installations to create a free, public exhibition that demonstrates the power of art and architecture to make cities better places to live for everyone.

  • The Borderlands at Display:

    In view of the resurgence of anti-immigrant and xenophobic policies in the US, gaining a comprehensive understanding about the American borderlands' built environment and their cross-border interconnectedness is becoming increasingly relevant and necessary.

  • RISD SEI Fellow Germán Pallares-Avitia Explores International Relations along the US-Mexico Border

    The second-year teaching and research fellow shows students how the built environment can shed light on issues of race, class, gender and more.

  • Architecture, Modernity and the Post-Colonial Narrative

    New faculty members Malcolm Rio and Germán Pallares-Avitia explore architectural history through the lens of decoloniality.

  • SEI Fellows Spotlight

    It's been a great first year at RISD. As the semester and the academic year are nearing their end, it's good to recount the great things that being an SEI fellow and a professor in the architecture department have allowed me to accomplish.

  • RISD Architecture Faculty Conversation

    In the Fall of 2021, RISD Architecture welcomed seven new faculty members with expertise in racial, social, and environmental justice. In this video RISD Architecture Assistant Professor Malcolm Rio and Social Equity and Inclusion Fellow Germán Pallares discuss racial and social justice in architectural education, the challenges of teaching architectural history through the lens of decoloniality, Germán's podcast on borderization, and Rio's research on ballroom culture.