For the first-time ever, Rhode Island School of Design’s Institute for Design + Public Policy will offer a session designed specifically for Rhode Island-based leaders and innovators thanks to a new partnership with the Rhode Island Foundation.
Throughout the five-day institute, running August 4-5 and 10-12 in Providence, participants will build their design capacity through experience-based training grounded in a challenge brief. They will immerse themselves in a collaborative, rigorous studio workshop exploring human-centered design as a tool for addressing complex public policy issues, ultimately building a cross-sector community of practice for design and public policy. Led by expert design instructors from RISD and featuring guest lecturers and critics from across sectors, the studio topic will beCIVILian: Reimagining a More Civic Rhode Island. In the face of issues such as climate change, globalization and terrorism, participants will examine what the notion of “civics” means as both an idea and a community and individual practice in today’s world.