Center for Complexity at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) is a project-based research unit, informed by global events and creative practices.
We work on human-built systems with organizations, institutions, and community partners to achieve positive social impact. We were founded to benefit scholars, practitioners, a wide range of partners, and the RISD community.
Meeting the challenges of the 21st Century means finding methods that embrace entanglement.
The drive to take things apart must be followed with a process of re-imagining, reassembly, reconstitution. The taking apart must be done to achieve insight that is not possible when we examine the whole. And the bringing together must be done to achieve something new, based on the knowledge gained in this process.
Get in touch with us if your are from within the RISD community or beyond the RISD community—we would love to talk complexity!
We are interested in systems and their big challenges. We believe they must be addressed by methods that link minds, disciplines, geographies, and scales.
We work between research and realization, bridging pedagogy and practice.
