When Rhode Island School of Design alumni Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia saw a shortage of hotel accommodations for the 2007 Industrial Design Conference in San Francisco, they turned their apartment’s living room into a bed and breakfast, accommodating three guests on air mattresses and providing a homemade breakfast. Chesky and Gebbia weren’t necessarily looking to become hotel moguls. Rather, they saw a problem, linked it to an opportunity -- unused space in people’s homes -- and created...
There is a growing movement in K-12 education to have states adopt Common Core Standards across all subject areas. The intent is to assure the highest standards are met by schools regardless of location. As a consortium of art and design colleges, we are of course interested in seeing students across the country have access to quality arts education in their elementary, middle and high school years. We believe that this is a critical part of a comprehensive education, whether or not a...
With its runaway successes at Sundance and Cannes, the atmospheric, deeply allegorical movie Beasts of the Southern Wild has taken the film world by storm. The New York Times hailed the low-budget work as “a blast of sheer, improbable joy.” Beasts, which won the top Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and the Camera D’Or prize at Cannes, is already generating early Oscar buzz – not just for its narrative impact but for its raw visual power as well.
The coming-of-age tale, which opened in...
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This school year, students from MICA and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, collaborated with students in Kabul, Afghanistan, through a series of workshops utilizing video chats and conferencing, as well as other online resources, to foster a creative exchange that transcends geographic and cultural bounds.
The two groups have teamed up for Translocal Art-Making: Holding a Faraway Camera, a project with the goal of investigating the nature of...
A multi-disciplinary team spent the Summer 2012 term investigating the living needs of low-income housing dwellers in India, and then building furniture prototypes for use in the high quality, low-cost housing championed by social entrepreneurship nonprofit Ashoka
A multi-disciplinary team spent the Summer 2012 term investigating the living needs of low-income housing dwellers in India, and then building furniture prototypes for use in the high quality, low-cost housing championed by social entrepreneurship nonprofit Ashoka.
Over one billion people—32 percent of the global urban population—live in urban slums in emerging countries, with 500,000 more joining them each week. Relatively poor nations will build the equivalent of a city of more than...
With its runaway successes at Sundance and Cannes, the atmospheric, deeply allegorical movie 
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