Penguin Physics:These animations were conceived, designed and produced by members of Communicating Science Through Visual Media, a new joint Brown-RISD course that explores the pedagogy of teaching science concepts through video and animation.

What is a Theory? These animations were conceived, designed and produced by members of Communicating Science Through Visual Media, a new joint Brown-RISD course that explores the pedagogy of teaching science concepts through video and animation.

If it is sometimes true that what goes up must also come down, then it must also sometimes be true that what comes down must also go up.

Creative thinking is a critical response to the world around us- to our curiosities and interests, to the questions our observations generate, to the ways we frame problems, and to the strategies we develop for translating what we imagine into objects and experiences.

The meaning and value of a material - particularly a common, everyday material – opens up and expands when we discover new formal and functional possibilities.

The Grand Anything… a structure whose form and function is not predetermined, but rather emerges out of purposeful play

Performance, object, and everyday life.

Students in DesignStudio explore various strategies for designing functional objects, with an emphasis on learning through making.

Communicating Medical Risk, taught by David Macaulay and Ali Zarrabi in Spring 2012 was a course linking RISD and Brown with the intent to improve visual and health literacy for patients and health care professionals.