Interior Architecture - Exhibition and Narrative Environments

Overview

Interior Architecture - Exhibition and Narrative Environments from Rhode Island School of Design properly equips graduating students to create narrative experiences within museum settings. Students may take exhibition-related coursework through electives in other departments, such as Graphic Design, Digital + Media and Theory and History of Art and Design, or through Brown University. They may also take advantage of resources and opportunities offered by the RISD Museum.

Graduates with Interior Architecture - Exhibition and Narrative Environments from Rhode Island School of Design will be prepared to:

• engage in the practice and implementation of adaptive reuse in the built environment through the demonstration of an appropriate aesthetic, theoretical and technological framework

• expand upon the architect's understanding of reuse as a product of practice and in the context of architectural history and theory

• develop strategies for acknowledging the importance of social and environmental responsibility through design projects

• view and evaluate adaptive reuse through a multifaceted lens

• recognize the origins of adaptive reuse as well as the contemporary context governing current practice

• use qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate the economic and environmental merits of adaptive reuse

• become ambassadors of adaptive reuse as a specialty in the professional design setting through the advancement of such practice at conferences and as built work