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BEAM, Co-founded by Annie Chen (BRDD 2023), Earns Support of NEW INC and Environmental Art Grant

Co-founded by Annie Chen (BRDD 2023, Industrial Design, Behavioral Decision Sciences) and Zoe Lee (RISD 2024 ID) BEAM is a research studio for climate transition.

digital image of a landscape with wind turbines

BEAM is 2025-26 cohort member of NEW INC, the New Museum's incubator for art, design, and technology. Their project Tidelands 2100: Imagining Coastal Futures Beyond Displacement - an extended reality (XR) artwork that immerses audiences in a speculative climate future along Potter’s Pond, RI - was awarded a 2025 Environmental Art Grant from Anonymous Was A Woman and New York Foundation for the Arts.

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