Final Review Schedule

RISD ID ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL DESIGN STUDIO

Design for Social Entrepreneurship

Final Review Schedule: Tuesday, May 21

RISD ID Building, 6^th floor, Room 600

9:30-10:00

Buy with Heart: The Future Outlook

Tommy Park, JiYeon Han, and Alex Nam

10:00 – 10:25

Maternova: Curbing the Maternal Mortality Rate Through Cultural Understanding

Liz Holland

10:25 – 10:55

The Happy Project:  Sharing Joy Through Child Sponsorship

Sarah Oh

10:55 -11:25

Re-Directing Education: Empowering Youth through Design & Entrepreneurial Thinking

Alex Peacock and Tess Feigenbaum

11:25 – 11:50

UNseen, UNheard, UNbroken: Understanding the Orphan Crisis

Natalie Hodson and Kevin Cho

11:50- 12:20  LUNCH

12:20 – 12:50

Mobile Blood Bank-ing

David Eisenberg

12:50-1:30

Retelling the Story of Providence Granola

Deesha Misra, Pierre Lai, and Gabriella Colon

1:30-1:55

Mat’Amor: Advocacy for International Maternal Health

Stephanie Roh

1:55 – 2:15

Chocolateville: Creating Community through Chocolate

Leah Chung, Angela Choi, and Sue Kim

Guest Critics:

Khipra Nichols, Faculty RISD Industrial Design

Charlie Cannon, Faculty RISD Industral Design

Lili Herman, Faculty RISD Landscape Architecture

Will Wells, Providence Plastic Project

Kevin Jankowski, Associate Director RISD Careers

Kelly Ramirez, CEO SE Greenhouse

Brianna McGeough, Buy with Heart

Brett Anders, Buy with Heart

Brad Fesmire, Riverz Edge Arts

Mike Ritz, Leadership Rhode Island & Save Chocolateville

Eric Anderson, My Happy Shirts

Keith Cooper, Providence Granola

DeSE Final Review Scheduled!

The Design for Social Entrepreneurship final review is scheduled for Tuesday, May 21st from 9:30am- 2:00pm.  RISD ID Building, rm 600.

RISD|DeSE @ SEEED

The RISD | DeSE Social Venture Case Studies are on display at the SEEED Summit at Brown University April 26, 27.  They feature local social ventures including, Maternova, My Happy Shirts, Save Chocolateville, RiverzEdge Arts, Buy with Heart and Providence Granola.  Check them out!

David Eisenberg discusses his groups' case study on the social venture, Maternova.

SVPRI Ecosystem Analysis

SVPRI employs an ecosystem approach to serving local social ventures.  They focus on five main approaches to support and meet the needs of the entire social venture community.  These 5 approaches include Networking, Education, Business Acumen, Access to Capitol and Markets.  The RISD|DeSE students analyzed the SVPRI Ecosystem by cataloging the way their venture partners participates and benefits from this method of support.  

Case Study Final Review - 4/16

Students present their Social Venture Case Studies to our project partners on the 6th floor of the ID Building at 3pm.

Worldway's Lecture Today at 5pm

Today we will hear from Maureen Cronin, Founder of Worldway's Social Marketing and advocate for businesses working for social good.  She will present her work and methodology for using design to promote positive social change.  

Lecture at 5pm

RISD ID Building rm 600

161 South Main Street

Providence, RI

Case Study Mid Review April 4th

Social Ventures Partners Rhode Island (SVPRI) provides a comprehensive support system for the needs of the growing social enterprise sector in Rhode Island.  SVPRI has a network of over 100 ventures to  provide business consulting, mentorship, incubation and investment. As a leader in social enterprise development they are being asked to replicate their “eco-system” model, programs and expertise in new sectors.  Over the past three weeks, In collaboration with SVPRI, this studio has worked to research and develop case studies for a selection of social ventures that SVPRI has supported to better understand this “eco-system” approach.
These ventures include:
By With Heart
Maternova
My Happy Shirts
Providence Granola Project
Riverz Edge Arts
Save Chocolateville

Student teams are investigating each venture to compare social issues, models of entrepreneurship, support/ services provided by SVPRI and future needs or growth opportunities of the venture.  As a studio we are also developing representational methods for presenting and marketing social venture issues.  

Students have been in the field interviewing venture founders, stakeholders and participants to observe and gain insights into the successes and challenges of these ventures.  On Thursday, April 4th the studio will be joined by Kelly Ramirez of SVPRI (www.svpri.org) and Maureen Cronin of Worldways Social Marketing for a mid-point review of the visual case studies.  The final case study presentations will be held Tuesday, April 16th.