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Providence, RI, US Thu, Oct 31 '24 adjunct or Associ:Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)Job description:adjunct or Associate Professor, Architecture, Technology/Tectonic CultureEmployer:Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Job location:Providence, RI, US Published:Thu, Oct 31 '24 Type:Full-time The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Architecture department invites candidates for a full-time faculty appointment at the rank of adjunct or Associate Professor, to commence fall 2025. Rank will be dependent on professional status and teaching practice. The department seeks qualified individuals for a full-time critical review position (RISD’s version of tenure) to offer undergraduate and graduate-level instruction in the area of building, architectural tectonics, and fabrication. This is a design-plus position; prosperous candidates will teach undergraduate and graduate students, at the core and thesis levels in addition to teaching foundational, required, and advanced courses in their area of skills. The department values candidates with a demonstrated record of university-level teaching (core and advanced) and with a demonstrated record of scholarly contributions and/or exhibition/installation/built work. The department welcomes versatile candidates equally adept with AI/machine learning and hand tools, at home in the classroom and fabrication shop with demonstrated construction/fabrication practice. The department seeks candidates with demonstrated expertise of and practice with the cultural traditions of building construction, coupled with an interest and capability in advancing new fabrication and construction techniques driven by digital processes and material technology. RISDrecognizes principles of social equity, inclusion, and diversity as fundamental to its academic mission as an art and design school. We understand these principles to require continuing attention to difference and expansion of the forms of expertise from which our curricula originate.RISDis engaged in the collective work of institutional transformation and would value candidates whose pedagogical and professional practices have prepared them to foster equitable teaching and learning environments. We encourage candidates whose teaching and professional work (creative practice and/or academic scholarship) centers on bodies of expertise from historically underrepresented communities. We are eager to welcome candidates who can help advance the institution’s social equity, inclusion, and diversity goals and those from groups whose underrepresentation in the American professoriate has been severe and long standing, including Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other People of Color, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, veterans, people with disabilities, and first-generation college graduates. Required Qualifications » A terminal degree in Architecture (M.Arch, or equivalent) or allied discipline. » Demonstrated record teaching coursework (core and advanced) in the area of architectural technology, building tectonics and/or fabrication. » Professional practice and/or licensure in architecture, or demonstrated evidence of contributions to one’s area of skills (e.g. advanced specialized degrees, publications, exhibitions, built work). Preferred Qualifications » A minimum of 3 years teaching practice architectural courses at the college-level » practice with digital output tools and material located shop procedures and equipment is strongly preferred. » practice integrating emerging technologies or mediums with studio, seminar and/or lecture teaching » practice shaping architectural curricula » Academic leadership abilities practice and/or interest (e.g. service as department head, graduate program director) Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) is an undergraduate and graduate college of art and design with approximately 2,500 graduate and undergraduate students.RISDhas a critical review process, which is very similar to the tenure process.RISDsupports faculty professional practice with sabbaticals, pre-critical review leave, conference funds, and professional development grants. For more information aboutRISD, please visit www.risd.edu . RISDArchitecture is one of the college’s large departments with over 200 students enrolled in two degree paths: a five-year B.Arch and a three-year M.Arch (with the possibility of advanced standing for completion of this graduate degree in two years). We are currently a faculty of 10 full-time, 4 visiting professors, and over 30 part-time members. We are fortunate to be one of a few departments of architecture in this country housed within a preeminent college of the arts, and we take advantage of this proximity by creating a milieu that is rich in media exploration, testing various materials and formats for the dissemination of architectural ideas. We approach architecture as a cultural discipline and teach design through experimentation, iteration, and critique. The context of the institution supports this approach, as the exploration of and experimentation with various materials and media serve the development and dissemination of architectural ideas for our students. Central to the mission of our department, and our college, is a commitment to making racial, social, and environmental justice foundational to the education of the architect. As an art college,RISDhas an activist student culture driving our community’s desire to make these important and substantive changes in the curriculum. Our students are engaged and creative, and upon graduating they become advocates for the built environment and the communities that architecture has historically underserved. As teaching is key to theRISDpractice, the department seeks a colleague whose practice or scholarly agendas work in tandem with their teaching (i.e. by evidencing how one’s area of skills relates to curricular and pedagogical materials). Full-time faculty are also expected to participate in the department’s curricular development, and contribute to the life of the school through service, such as student advising, as well as departmental and school-wide committees. The full-time faculty teaching load is five teaching units a year. In addition to teaching, full-time faculty are expected to maintain a dynamic professional practice, serve on college committees, advise students, participate in curriculum development and other departmental and/or divisional activities and projects, and contribute to the vibrancy of the intellectual life of the college. For information about base pay for this position, please refer to ArticleXII“Salaries” (p. 19-22) in the Faculty Association Collective Bargaining Contract 2022-2025 . The contract indicates the minimum base income for each rank. https://careers.risd.edu/postings/2360 Skills:
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