News, Events, and Opportunities
Read about some of our current efforts on opioids, addiction, equity and systemic change.
RISD’s Center for Complexity uses the studio process of inquiry, iteration and innovation to envision novel solutions to the nationwide problem.
Read through the brilliant ideas and questions discussed at our 2020 Complexity Symposium – Generation C.
Please join us from June 14-16, 2021, for this year's Complexity Symposium titled 'Carry Forward'.
We are hiring 2 positions for Spring 2021. Open to all graduate students. Apply by Monday, March 1, 2021.
RISD’s Center for Complexity launches Horizon 2045, a 25-year project aimed at eliminating the threat of nuclear war.
The Center for Complexity led a six-day strategic design studio undertaken for the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) and Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH). The studio – alongside practitioners working in the field – explored what a “Center for Arts and Health” should be for communities in Rhode Island and beyond.
Researchers at RISD's Center for Complexity share insights from a symposium focused on the far-reaching impacts of COVID-19.
A five-day virtual symposium to share ideas about the critical work of charting pathways forward
Judah Armani shares his insights and practices from 15 years of work in design for social change. He presents his experience applying co-creation and service design, to support incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people in the UK improve the quality of their lives.
We send our kids to school to prepare them for the future. But for which future should schools prepare?
In collaboration with PopTech, the Center for Complexity (CfC) hosted a two day convening in March 2019 to discuss the future of food
“A Practice of Uncertainty: How Design Embraces Contingency” Lecture by: Justin W. Cook at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Marking the completion of N Square Innovation Network cohort one and the launch of cohort two, N Square and RISD co-hosted the intensive program with longtime partners PopTech and Nucleus.
Focusing on the role of design in today’s society, Dan Hill shares a range of methods for bringing possible futures into reality, tools for decision-making, and the structuring of teams to work on complex challenges.
