︎You can reach out to any of us about any ideas.
We all do a little bit of everything and share notes at weekly meetings. At the same time, we take on a few focused roles and responsibilities.
Sako Antonyan
Managing Editor
BFA INTAR/BRDD 2027
Sako is learning to tie cherry stems in his mouth. Lately, he has been in many in-betweens: a half-Duolingoed francophone, a scholar of urbanisms and interiors, a film hater/lover. Honoring these and other transitions through experimental poetry, photography, and hybrid narrative-making, he indulges transformation through a juggling of like and unlike, sifting space through the sieve of text. He is an aspiring exhibition designer, a Didion enthusiast, a lover of lists of three. To embolden his fourth-year in the Dual Degree he is helping to manage the whims and wonders of this year of v.1—for him, a journey into hallways without convention, hallways of laughter, good jam, seats for everyone.
Henry Ding
Editor
B.ARCH 2026
Hailing from the Great White North (Toronto, Canada), Henry was born in 2003, the same year Beyoncé released her debut album, Dangerously in Love. Henry grew up chasing the rush of short-legged dogs, old maps, and the beauty of fish. Rather than stardom, Henry hopes to emulate the life of his 96-year-old grandmother, the mahjong queen of her local tea house in mountainous Southern China. Though for now, discount earl grey and conversations with friends on his porch suffice well enough. An aspiring architect and writer, Henry is excited by archival practice, domestic spaces, and the home he hopes to build his parents one day. This year, as Beyoncé works towards releasing the highly anticipated final album of her trilogy project, Henry works on mastering the perfect PB&J.
Sarah Qianyin Feng
Designer
BFA GD 2026
Sarah tries to stabilize herself into a spam can. If not, she would trigger minuscule explosions that cause absolutely no disaster other than a destruction in her mind, which she would forget right away. In this shell, Sarah is a non-stop listener, just like she is a non-stop Pompompurin collector. She is always listening to the crowd, the world, or just her heart. This is Sarah’s second year in v.1 and her last year at RISD, so she would like to listen even more carefully, and hopefully this could calm her down from these minuscule explosions. Sarah is also jealous of everyone on earth who has seen a volcanic eruption. She puts this in her bio forever until she actually sees one.
Selim Kutlu
Editor
BFA PR/BRDD 2029
Once upon a winter night, Selim decided to walk from the Henderson Bridge to the Neutaconkanut Park on the western end of Providence. Still, despite his resolute faith in walking, he maybe does think walking between his hometowns of Vancouver, Canada, and Ankara, Turkey, might be a bit of a long shot. Selim’s probably blasting Burçak Tarlası by Tülay German or any Turkish psych-rock standard in his room right now to compensate for this failure in walking. Yet, Selim still seems to walk a lot, and he is morbidly intrigued by maps, signs, directions, and the language that guides him. A printmaker and linguist, he is fascinated by (the languages and systems of) printed matter and ephemera.
Nadine Macapagal
Designer
BFA GD 2026
Nadine begins with a spiral: sometimes it’s the Fibonacci sequence, sometimes the round of her bike against the pavement, sometimes the echo of a particular word repeating until it unravels. She keeps odd collections: A Strange Single Cloud at night and every single line on each of her rulers. In her final year at RISD, she is rounding out a BFA in Graphic Design and spiralling through a concentration in Computation, Technology, and Culture (because naming things is both compass and burden). Nadine is always returning to the spiral, always unraveling again, again, and again … ever a problem child at her core.
Olivier Mbabazi
Editor
MA GAC 2027
Olivier is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar from Kigali, Rwanda. His work explores art as a venue for cross-cultural understanding, resilience, and community healing. Building on his recent work, especially a yearlong Thomas J. Watson Fellowship researching Art and Resilience in six countries in the Global South, he is further examining links between socially engaged art, the role of art and design in political propaganda, and preservation of collective memory. His research is also focused on examining the contributions of African art and artists in contemporary art. In his spare time, Olivier enjoys reading, watching documentaries, and going for long, meditative walks.
Managing Editor
BFA INTAR/BRDD 2027
Sako is learning to tie cherry stems in his mouth. Lately, he has been in many in-betweens: a half-Duolingoed francophone, a scholar of urbanisms and interiors, a film hater/lover. Honoring these and other transitions through experimental poetry, photography, and hybrid narrative-making, he indulges transformation through a juggling of like and unlike, sifting space through the sieve of text. He is an aspiring exhibition designer, a Didion enthusiast, a lover of lists of three. To embolden his fourth-year in the Dual Degree he is helping to manage the whims and wonders of this year of v.1—for him, a journey into hallways without convention, hallways of laughter, good jam, seats for everyone.
Henry Ding
Editor
B.ARCH 2026
Hailing from the Great White North (Toronto, Canada), Henry was born in 2003, the same year Beyoncé released her debut album, Dangerously in Love. Henry grew up chasing the rush of short-legged dogs, old maps, and the beauty of fish. Rather than stardom, Henry hopes to emulate the life of his 96-year-old grandmother, the mahjong queen of her local tea house in mountainous Southern China. Though for now, discount earl grey and conversations with friends on his porch suffice well enough. An aspiring architect and writer, Henry is excited by archival practice, domestic spaces, and the home he hopes to build his parents one day. This year, as Beyoncé works towards releasing the highly anticipated final album of her trilogy project, Henry works on mastering the perfect PB&J.
Sarah Qianyin Feng
Designer
BFA GD 2026
Sarah tries to stabilize herself into a spam can. If not, she would trigger minuscule explosions that cause absolutely no disaster other than a destruction in her mind, which she would forget right away. In this shell, Sarah is a non-stop listener, just like she is a non-stop Pompompurin collector. She is always listening to the crowd, the world, or just her heart. This is Sarah’s second year in v.1 and her last year at RISD, so she would like to listen even more carefully, and hopefully this could calm her down from these minuscule explosions. Sarah is also jealous of everyone on earth who has seen a volcanic eruption. She puts this in her bio forever until she actually sees one.
Selim Kutlu
Editor
BFA PR/BRDD 2029
Once upon a winter night, Selim decided to walk from the Henderson Bridge to the Neutaconkanut Park on the western end of Providence. Still, despite his resolute faith in walking, he maybe does think walking between his hometowns of Vancouver, Canada, and Ankara, Turkey, might be a bit of a long shot. Selim’s probably blasting Burçak Tarlası by Tülay German or any Turkish psych-rock standard in his room right now to compensate for this failure in walking. Yet, Selim still seems to walk a lot, and he is morbidly intrigued by maps, signs, directions, and the language that guides him. A printmaker and linguist, he is fascinated by (the languages and systems of) printed matter and ephemera.
Nadine Macapagal
Designer
BFA GD 2026
Nadine begins with a spiral: sometimes it’s the Fibonacci sequence, sometimes the round of her bike against the pavement, sometimes the echo of a particular word repeating until it unravels. She keeps odd collections: A Strange Single Cloud at night and every single line on each of her rulers. In her final year at RISD, she is rounding out a BFA in Graphic Design and spiralling through a concentration in Computation, Technology, and Culture (because naming things is both compass and burden). Nadine is always returning to the spiral, always unraveling again, again, and again … ever a problem child at her core.
Olivier Mbabazi
Editor
MA GAC 2027
Olivier is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar from Kigali, Rwanda. His work explores art as a venue for cross-cultural understanding, resilience, and community healing. Building on his recent work, especially a yearlong Thomas J. Watson Fellowship researching Art and Resilience in six countries in the Global South, he is further examining links between socially engaged art, the role of art and design in political propaganda, and preservation of collective memory. His research is also focused on examining the contributions of African art and artists in contemporary art. In his spare time, Olivier enjoys reading, watching documentaries, and going for long, meditative walks.
Maham Momin
Designer
MFA GD 2027
Maham is a Tkaronto/Toronto-raised graphic designer and art director working in print, editorial, and brand worlds, always rooted in storytelling as a way of remembering and reimagining. She is the co-founder of PatinaPatina, a magazine devoted to the messy, in-between spaces of culture—where decay gives way to renewal and traditions are held, questioned, and remade. Her undergraduate thesis explored Qawwali, a form of traditional folk music, as a decolonial design method—studying rhythm, repetition, and improvisation to reshape how we move, speak, and create. She believes in design as care, and in care as a kind of resistance.
Nayyab Naveed
Editor-in-Chief
MFA IL 2026
Artist/writer/researcher Nayyab Naveed grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, eating the leaves of plants she wasn’t supposed to be eating. Alongside her life-long attempts to transition into a tree, Nayyab worked as a designer and ethnographer, immersing herself in the lives of low-income women in the rural outskirts of Pakistan. Her projects moved through terrains of sexual and reproductive health, disability, climate-induced gender-based violence, and the delicate spaces where financial and technological inclusion meet daily survival. Nayyab’s work often anchors itself in a spiritual relationship with the human and more-than-human world. This sensibility, deeply resonant with South Asian cultural and mystic traditions, allows her practice to grow from lived experience into a spiritual ecology of its own. Nayyab’s mission in life is to support the world’s trees in taking over global political power, and to support v.1 contributors in aiding the green revolution.
Jiabao Wu
Designer
BFA GD 2027
Jiabao finds stories in small and ordinary things—the fold of a candy wrapper, the shape of a word, the way colors quietly fall into place. She keeps restless notebooks of sketches and half-formed ideas, and her browser is always full of tiny discoveries waiting to be woven together. Originally from Shanghai and now based in Vancouver, she also dances, where rhythm and movement slip back into everything she makes. At v.1, she helps the publication feel alive—able to move, taste, and breathe like the worlds it grows from. And though she doesn’t have a cat right now, she can’t stop falling into late-night cat videos.
Arete Xu
Managing Editor
BFA SC 2026
Arete remembers the day words clicked for her. She has Greek myths to thank for her name, New Zealand and My Little Pony to thank for her eternally parbaked accent, and countless hours of brainrot to thank for her current vocabulary—a lifetime of words that were borrowed. But she often goes back to the first time she put together a string of words that were fully her own. Something about “___” for a book analysis. Arete retrails her steps to that point; from essays to journalism to playwriting, she’s been chasing Orion ever since. When she’s not gathering and entangling word constellations, she’s perfecting spicy soup concoctions or losing herself in a string of showtunes. This is her third and final year in v.1, and she is less concerned with words clicking and more concerned with just releasing them into thin air. She doesn’t remember what the book’s about.
Zorka Zsembery
Managing Editor
M.Arch 2026
Until about now, Zorka thought she knew a thing or two about a thing or two—she has since abandoned her search for truth and is now looking for a good fantasy. You can find her gripping onto her child-like sense of wonder or trying to speak to you in your mother tongue. She is an optimist by instinct, a philosopher by scholarship, an innocent by archetypal distinction, and a daydreamer in the most generic sense of the word. Whether she is collecting vinyl records in preparation for the apocalypse or dreaming up the B&B ranch she will run in Montana (in the case of no apocalypse), you can try to bring her back down to Earth by suggesting a trip to the botanical garden. She’s stuck in between E major and A on her borrowed acoustic guitar. In her first year at v.1, Zorka is eager to use her ambient awareness of what’s being quietly mourned or collectively manifested, and give voice to the delightful RISD subcultures that bubble just beneath the surface. She walks like this and dances like that.
Designer
MFA GD 2027
Maham is a Tkaronto/Toronto-raised graphic designer and art director working in print, editorial, and brand worlds, always rooted in storytelling as a way of remembering and reimagining. She is the co-founder of PatinaPatina, a magazine devoted to the messy, in-between spaces of culture—where decay gives way to renewal and traditions are held, questioned, and remade. Her undergraduate thesis explored Qawwali, a form of traditional folk music, as a decolonial design method—studying rhythm, repetition, and improvisation to reshape how we move, speak, and create. She believes in design as care, and in care as a kind of resistance.
Nayyab Naveed
Editor-in-Chief
MFA IL 2026
Artist/writer/researcher Nayyab Naveed grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, eating the leaves of plants she wasn’t supposed to be eating. Alongside her life-long attempts to transition into a tree, Nayyab worked as a designer and ethnographer, immersing herself in the lives of low-income women in the rural outskirts of Pakistan. Her projects moved through terrains of sexual and reproductive health, disability, climate-induced gender-based violence, and the delicate spaces where financial and technological inclusion meet daily survival. Nayyab’s work often anchors itself in a spiritual relationship with the human and more-than-human world. This sensibility, deeply resonant with South Asian cultural and mystic traditions, allows her practice to grow from lived experience into a spiritual ecology of its own. Nayyab’s mission in life is to support the world’s trees in taking over global political power, and to support v.1 contributors in aiding the green revolution.
Jiabao Wu
Designer
BFA GD 2027
Jiabao finds stories in small and ordinary things—the fold of a candy wrapper, the shape of a word, the way colors quietly fall into place. She keeps restless notebooks of sketches and half-formed ideas, and her browser is always full of tiny discoveries waiting to be woven together. Originally from Shanghai and now based in Vancouver, she also dances, where rhythm and movement slip back into everything she makes. At v.1, she helps the publication feel alive—able to move, taste, and breathe like the worlds it grows from. And though she doesn’t have a cat right now, she can’t stop falling into late-night cat videos.
Arete Xu
Managing Editor
BFA SC 2026
Arete remembers the day words clicked for her. She has Greek myths to thank for her name, New Zealand and My Little Pony to thank for her eternally parbaked accent, and countless hours of brainrot to thank for her current vocabulary—a lifetime of words that were borrowed. But she often goes back to the first time she put together a string of words that were fully her own. Something about “___” for a book analysis. Arete retrails her steps to that point; from essays to journalism to playwriting, she’s been chasing Orion ever since. When she’s not gathering and entangling word constellations, she’s perfecting spicy soup concoctions or losing herself in a string of showtunes. This is her third and final year in v.1, and she is less concerned with words clicking and more concerned with just releasing them into thin air. She doesn’t remember what the book’s about.
Zorka Zsembery
Managing Editor
M.Arch 2026
Until about now, Zorka thought she knew a thing or two about a thing or two—she has since abandoned her search for truth and is now looking for a good fantasy. You can find her gripping onto her child-like sense of wonder or trying to speak to you in your mother tongue. She is an optimist by instinct, a philosopher by scholarship, an innocent by archetypal distinction, and a daydreamer in the most generic sense of the word. Whether she is collecting vinyl records in preparation for the apocalypse or dreaming up the B&B ranch she will run in Montana (in the case of no apocalypse), you can try to bring her back down to Earth by suggesting a trip to the botanical garden. She’s stuck in between E major and A on her borrowed acoustic guitar. In her first year at v.1, Zorka is eager to use her ambient awareness of what’s being quietly mourned or collectively manifested, and give voice to the delightful RISD subcultures that bubble just beneath the surface. She walks like this and dances like that.