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Furniture Design Masters Theses

Highly experimental and individualized, the graduate program in Furniture Design supports each student’s artistic development and articulation of an individual design philosophy through the conception, design and construction of furniture and related objects. The work produced ranges from one-of-a-kind objects, to designs for limited or mass production, to experimental, conceptually based projects. Aesthetic considerations in conjunction with a fluent use of materials and processes to support individual design concepts are paramount.

MFA candidates produce a final body of work and accompanying written thesis as an articulation of the graduate process, simultaneously aiding self-definition and demonstrating a personal point of view. MFA candidates are also required to mount a professional solo exhibition. Their personally selected thesis committee assists in developing a timeline for the exhibition based on assessments of each student’s proposal and progress. In addition, graduating students exhibit in the RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition , a large-scale public show held annually.

Graduate Program Director : Lothar Windels

These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License .

Theses from 2024 2024

The Future Is Over , Dotan Appelbaum

Function Follows Material , Pablo Ejarque González

So Far So Good , Cooper Goldman

Lost Stories , Yuxuan Huang

Untitled , Lucia Steele

Theses from 2023 2023

A Part Apart , Spenser Atlas

The Approach: A Promise of Warmth Inside , Louis Cohen

Objects of Daydreaming , Aaron Lorenz

Elusive Geometry , Lauren Richards

Living in nature & design with nature , yuya zhou

Theses from 2022 2022

Notes to myself , Anna Dawson

A wavering line , Ginger Gordon

Just enough , Amelia Greteman

Miles and miles and miles , Shannon Rose Jones

In this form, together , Elana Shvalbe

Mood follows matter , Maxwell Taylor-Milner

The sky is falling , Alexis Tingey

Slow puzzle , Tzyy Yi Young

Theses from 2021 2021

Polyrhythms , Kevin Costante

Loose threads / Hilos sueltos , Estefanía de Ros

Taking care , John Dixon

What do I see between 2 to 8 o'clock , Youtian Duan

Dress your chair , Yumeng Gai

This trash is someone else's problem , Lauren Goodman

Making meaning , Eric Loucks

An evolving process: patterns and objects , Shreya Tuli

Theses from 2020 2020

You are trapped. , Will Chouinard

Erik DeGiorgi , Erik DeGiorgi

Slick and lumpy : heavy cream , Emma Fague

This feels familiar , E. Winslow Funaki

Glurp, glurp, glurp , Zihe Gong

Cross your fingers , Ayumi Kodama

Kainan Liu , Kainan Liu

Internal resonance , Xiangyu Wang

Utopian fantasy , Yue Zhuo

Theses from 2019 2019

Mis jarrones , Marco Sebastián Arroyo Hoebens

American Slavic : and other writings , Zac Banik

Stepping aside , Juan Pablo Gutiérrez García

Conversations in 2019 , Kit Howland

Works and process , Alex Hsu

Sky is sinking below the trees : two years of documentation and observations , Xuelun Li

Externalized : origins of aesthetic motivations , Tim Miller

Theses from 2018 2018

A natural circus , Cecilia Plasencia

Theses from 2017 2017

Re-structure : an exploration of relational engagement through objects & object making , Mark Epler

Transformation through drawing and gesture , McKenzie Gibson

Living rooms we don't live in anymore , Caroline Kable

Familiar strangers , Rebecca Li

Between thoughts : on the interconnectivity of things , Yunzhu Wang

Poetic features beyond functions , Lu Xu

Expressionism in furniture , Zihan Zhang

Theses from 2016 2016

Verb things: changing the conversation , Kendra Kirchmer

Frequency , Andrew Pick

Theses from 2015 2015

Objects in mind , Leah Kenttämaa-Squires

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