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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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