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Students, Academics, Designers Converge for Change at Brown and RISD
A team of Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) students united academics and engineers on October 2nd through 4th to discuss creative and sustainable solutions to agriculture, architecture and transportation last weekend at “A Better World by Design.”
Panelists from around the world attended the second conference in Providence, organized this year by RISD senior Willem Van Lancker and a team of other dedicated students. The conference was first organized last year by Brown students Steve Daniels ’10, Sharon Langevin ’09 and two ’09 RISD graduates, Tino Chow and Mike Eng.
The conference featured a presentation by Jan Chipcase of the Nokia Research Center, as well as a one-hour design challenge in which participants put their heads together to reinvent the TV dinner, an American classic that uses large amounts of packaging and tends to be unhealthy.
“A lot of people talk about collaboration, but we’re really doing it,” said Ambika Roos ’11, a member of the conference’s organizing committee.
The real importance of the conference lies in the collaboration between the Brown, RISD and Providence communities, Van Lancker said.
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