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

Alumni Celebration 
5 to 7 p.m. with opening remarks at 5:30 p.m.
Welcoming back all alumni to re-connect with RID+I. 1st Floor of RID+I. The event is to welcome back alumni who graduated from WMU’s interior design, industrial design, interior architecture and design and product design and view the exhibit of student work on the 3rd floor.

April 28

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

April 29

Interior Systems III,  Section 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.