TONIGHT
Just a friendly reminder from your Respond|Design crew!
MONDAY March 8:
First General Meeting ::: 6PM ::: ID Building Gallery
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We will discus upcoming events, planning and your interests. Please bring any ideas for events you may have… ooh and don’t forget to bring a friend. And yes, we will give you something to eat from Nice Slice.
Things we are planning/brainstorming so far:
- RISD ::: NERD NIGHT ‘10 vol.2 & 3
- Spring Break Habitat for Humanity
- An “Iron Chef” style make-anything-challenge with a secret material (in partnership with Second Life)
- A month long exhibit on sustainability along with a series of lectures and discussions.
SCIENTISTS ARE THE NEW ROCKSTARS
Scientists are the new rockstars
RISD Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
Free
Scientists Are the New Rockstars is a live multimedia spectacle exploring the fuzzy and quarky lines between hard science, social science, and metaphysics with hands-on
examples of environmentally sustainable art and technologies.
thursday, march 4. 8:30 pm @ the tap room
film screening: The Garden Join the risd demo garden as we screen another important movie about
the green food revolution. The Garden tells the story of the
country’s largest urban farm and the role of backroom deals, land
developers, green politics, money, poverty, power, and racial discord
in its defense and demise. The film explores and exposes the fault
lines in American society and raises crucial and challenging questions
about liberty, equality, and justice for the poorest and most
vulnerable among us.http://www.thegardenmovie.com/about-the-film/
light snacks provided
sunday, march 7. 1-4 pm @ dexter garage, 187 benefit street
from broken to bountiful! the risd demo garden will transform discarded easels into portable
planter boxes you build, plant & take home. though tools & materials
will be provided, come equipped with knowledge of how much (or little)
sunlight you get in your planter’s future home. full-sun to
shade-tolerant vegetable, herb & edible flower seeds will be provided.
space is limited, so rsvp to dmiller01@g.risd.edu to reserve your spot.
The RISD Demo Garden is screening a movie about current food production in the United States. You can’t miss it.
Food, Inc. When? 7 pm, Wednesday, Feb 3 Where? Tap Room
(Food, Inc. appropriate) snacks provided
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s
food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been
hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s
regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now
controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of
consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of
workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the
perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes
that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful
bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans
annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among
children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food
Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food:
An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs
like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin,
Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we
eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we
are going from here.
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Seed Bomb Workshop
It may be winter but you can always (guerrilla) garden!
Join the RISD Demo Garden as we kick off our ‘How To’ Workshop series
with 2 hours of DIY seed bomb making. It’s an easy, fun way to
green up Providence. Whatever you make is yours to keep.
When? 5-7 pm Thursday, February 4 Where? Nature Lab
Light snacks and drinks will be provided to satisfy guerrilla appetites.
CONSERVE, a non-profit organisation, using a blend of creativity, design & innovation has turned, what was once a dull environmental hazard, into a clean, funky, and fashionable material, from which have been crafted a range of appealing handbags and fashion accessories.
We don’t just stop there! With the support of the Asian Development Bank, we are currently working on a project to generate income, through the production of this material, for the less advantaged communities in Delhi.
Read more about them on Treehugger.
Cartoneros are the trash pickers who collect paper informally, in Buenos Aires, through middlemen in warehouses, to executives in large corporate mills. The process exploded into a multimillion dollar industry after Argentina’s latest economic collapse. The film by the same name is both a record of an economic and social crisis and an invitation to audiences to rethink the value of trash.
Learn more about the original organization working to improve the situation for the Cartoneros through design and engineering. This is the official website that includes background of the organization and the movie trailer for the documentary Cartoneros.
Respond | Design is a forum to promote social and environmental responsibility at RISD both within students’ creative disciplines and in the institution as a whole.
We organize community events, screenings and exhibitions, and work with students and administrators to gain campus wide support in the change, development and implementation of sustainability methods and goals.
Get involved and check back often as we are continually updating the blog!
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