RISD and UN DPPA Innovation Cell Present at World Creativity and Innovation Week - April 2022

What inspires us to think beyond our usual ways? How can physical objects stimulate our thinking toward peaceful solutions? Can we express the meaning of peace through objects?

The Innovation Cell in the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (UN DPPA) partnered with the creative firm Altimeter Design Group and RISD in April 2022 to celebrate World Creativity and Innovation Week. In an effort to advance the UN's work on conflict prevention, peacemaking and peacebuilding, the group developed and presented a collection of one-of-a-kind, handmade objects to encourage imagination and give physical form to what, for example, the texture of resilience, the weight of dialogue or the movement of diplomacy could look like.

The initiative included interactive workshops that let UN staff members to explore in depth way how objects can shape our conception of peace. Altimeter was founded by Tom Weis MID 08, who led the work, alongside fellow alumni Emily Rothschild MID 08, Kate Dannessa 17 ID, Maria Alexia Platia 18 ID, Rives Matson 19 ID, Irina Wang MID 20, Megan Valanidas MID 18 and Brian Payne MID 16.

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