New York Design Week
RISD celebrates the alumni, faculty, staff and students taking part in New York Design Week 2025.
Grounding Space
Booth W887
RISD’s Furniture Design department presents Grounding Space in WANTED at ICFF. Remixing stylistic traditions and historical ornament and embracing the fantastical, this exhibition explores dimensionality—in virtual and physical realms—with natural and synthetic materials and through both traditional and exploratory functional objects. As our experience of space becomes more expansive, we remain inextricably tethered to the Earth. The work highlights curiosity and imagination as modes of exchange and understanding, all the while navigating diverse contextual realities. Grounding Space expands upon traditional furniture archetypes and alludes to atmospheric forces, poetically wielding light and employing materials made possible by advances in industry. It invites us to consider the act of creation as an opportunity for irreverence, homage and complexity. From 1800s farm equipment to the powerful cultural symbolism of animals and the creative possibilities of circuit boards, the work in this exhibition is an amalgam of time and space—a collective composition—that grounds us in the now.
The work includes It’s What’s Inside (Log Light) No.1 and Oriented Structures of Being (O.S.B No. 1) Bench by Kailyn Bryant BFA 25 FD, Weekday Wardrobe by Nino Chambers MFA 25 FD, Bent Bolt Wall Hooks by Andrew Goulet MFA 26 FD, National Geographic by Jack Kemper BFA 25 FD, Turn on Light by Xubai Li MFA 25 FD, Critters by Maggie McCreery BFA 26 FD and Riley Borst BFA 25 TX, Bull by Gretsy Moreno Ortiz BFA 25 FD, Enzo Chair and PC Sconce by August Ostrow BFA 25 FD, Spore Chair by David Schwimmer BFA 25 FD, Hang Sconces by Sam Sherman MFA 25 FD, Vessels by Emelia Violich BFA 2025 FD and Tractor Stool by Oscar Walsh BFA 25 FD.
WANTED Design School's Workshop
This year, RISD is the school partner for the WANTED Design Schools Workshop, a collaborative design challenge for international design schools with contributions from guests and industry experts and support from Haworth, Core77 and Molo. The topic is “Eating in NYC: Reconnecting and Redesigning Food Systems,” and the challenge will be facilitated by RISD faculty members Charlie Cannon and Erica Pernice BFA 14 ID over the course of four days. In a dedicated workspace at ICFF, more than 30 students from different schools and countries (including RISD, CCA, CENTRO, Escuela Monica Herrera, Ohio State, and Pratt) will work together in teams and present their projects to a jury of industry leaders on the ICFF Talks Main Stage on Tuesday, May 20 at 2:30 pm.
ICFF Talks
Alumni, faculty and students are participating in several of this year's ICFF Talks. Participants include:
Faculty member Amy Devers MFA 12 FD, Emerging Designer Showcase
Emily Edelman 12 GD, Exploring Infinite Creative Potential with New Technologies
Josh Owen MFA 97 FD, Good Design and Architecture Create Happiness
Adam Charlap Hyman 11 FD, Defining Style: A Conversation with the World’s Leading Designers
Launch Pad at WANTED
RISD students Nino Chambers MFA 25 FD, Jennifer Choi MFA 25 FD, Xubai Li MFA 25 FD, Jumana Motiwala MFA 25 FD, Sam Sherman MFA 25 FD, Palm Paramee Panchaphalasom BFA 25 FD, Ryan Everett Smith BFA 25 FD, Yichu Wang MFA 25 FD and Lorna (Shuyang) Zhang BFA 25 ID (Studio L) will particpated in WANTED's emerging designer showcase, Launch Pad.
Emerging Designer Residency at NYCxDesign
Alexandra Soiseth MFA 23 TX is taking part in this year's NYCxDesign Emerging Designer Residency.
RISD Community Participation
Glass Subjects: Curated by Charlap Hyman & Herrero (Adam Charlap Hyman 11 FD)
Opens April 25
R & Co
64 White Street
Featuring work by Jolie Ngo 20 CR and exhibition design support from Alkemis Paint (Price Latimer 00 GD)
Material Matters: A Show of Work By Recent Alumni
May 15–19
10 am-5 pm
7 Lispenard St, New York City, NY, 10013
Recuperated and repaired materials are the basis of this exhibition, centering repair and reclamation—acts of extension and continuation—as a fundamental ethos for creating new objects in today’s materially congested world. The exhibition highlights work in furniture, objects and textiles, and practices such as Kintsugi, objets trouvés, visible mending, etc., which have paved the way in the history of art and design, whether recognized as fine art in the gallery and museum space or downplayed as domestic.
Included in the show:
Piera Bochner MFA 24 FD, Annie Chen 23 ID, Daniel Chocanta MArch 24, Pablo Ejarque-Gonzalez MFA 24 FD, Kayla Feng 24 GD, Benjamin Garbus 25 ID, Elbert Girón MID 24, Jyotindra Idris BArch 23, Zoe Lee 24 ID, Anuj Malla MFA 24 FD, Sarah Mann MID 24, Isabel Jane Marvel MArch 24, Caely Melford MFA 24 FD, Dominic Rishe MID 24, Isabella Ruggiero MArch 24 and Ella Son MFA 24 TX.
The RISD Alumni Association is hosting an opening reception for the show on Friday, May 16.
Lazzoni x Josh Owen (Josh Owen MFA 97 FD)
May 16-26
Lazzoni Showroom
145 Madison Ave, New York, NY, USA
