From the great article written by Simone Solondz on the risd.edu website:

A hushed sense of anticipation takes hold as audience members find their seats in the College Building’s teak-lined former library space, where a performance piece called Ocean Clarion Call is about to unfold. As the space darkens, it’s lit from above in a deep blue light. From the back of the room comes a sustained chiming sound that grows louder and more insistent as the audience waits for the show to begin.

The intense, film/dance experience that followed on Monday, December 10 was created by Architecture students in YOMO (Your Ocean, My Ocean), a fall studio taught by Professor Kyna Leski. Inspired by a spring collaboration with the Media Arts department at the University of California/Irvine and funded by a grant from RISD’s Robert L. Turner Theatrical & Performance Design Project, the studio was intended as a call to action—a rescue mission focused on the planet’s oceans.

“We began by thinking of the ocean as a client and trying to understand the client’s needs,” says Leski, who frames global climate change and related manmade activity that impact our seas as a design project ripe for student input. “Architects break things down into measurable and scalable problems,” she explains. “We can use the structure in which we practice as a guide to approaching… a world design project.”