A room packed full of people.

Events in the Richmond Institute for Design + Innovation

April 15

Wilson Smith will participate in design reviews and meet with students in Interior Architecture and Design and Product Design throughout the day. At Noon Wilson will present a lecture on “The Narrative in Design.” Following the lecture he will visit with Product Design students, and at 3 p.m. attend an upper-level review of work by students in the Interior Architecture and Design.

April 16

Wilson Smith will lecture at the Kalamazoo Institute of Art.

April 21

Product Design 2
9 to 11:50 a.m.
K1040

Product Design Thesis 2
1 to 3:50 p.m.  
3rd Floor Senior Studio

Studio VI
4 to 7 p.m.  
Capstone II: "Position, Synthesis & Proposition" Day 1, IAD Y4 Studio K2248

April 22

Studio VI
4 to 7 p.m.
Capstone II: "Position, Synthesis & Proposition" Day 1, IAD Y4 Studio K2248

April 23

Product Design 2
9 to 11:50 a.m.
K1040

Product Design Thesis 2
1 to 3:50 p.m.
3rd Floor Senior Studio

April 24

Studio IV
1 to 5 p.m.
"Leisure, Urban Renewal and Destination", VITALS labs 

Venture Studio Pitch Event
Room 1040
5:30 to 8 p.m. 
Each spring, Western Michigan University’s Richmond Institute for Design & Innovation, in partnership with Liminal Group, runs the Student Venture Studio & Pitch Event, where students turn opportunity into investment-ready businesses with IP.

April 25

Interior Architecture and Design Year 2 Final Project Exhibitions
1 to 3 p.m.
Location TBD

April 27

Design Communication II
2:50 to 4:45 PM 
Habitable Reuse.”, Location TBD

Design Communication II
5 to 7 p.m.
"Habitable Reuse”, Location TBD

April 28

Design Communication II
8 to 10 a.m.
"Habitable Reuse, Location TBD

April 29

Interior Systems IIISection 105 Final Review 
12:30 to 2:30 p.m  
"Poetic Tectonics",  Second floor bridge 

April 30

Interior Systems III,  Section 100 Final Review 
10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m "Poetic Tectonics", Second floor bridge  

RID+I - MIX 
5 to 7 p.m. with opening remarks at 5:30 p.m.
Exhibition of graduating Interior architecture and design and product design senior exhibit. The event will be a chance for the professional design community to celebrate RID+I’d graduating product design students. Registration is free.

May 1

Celebration of graduating RID+I Seniors
5 to 7 p.m.
The event includes students, family and friends at they celebrate RID+I seniors receiving a RID+I Cord and for all to view the graduating senior exhibit.