It often feels like Obama is in the room with us at RISD these days, raising our collective awareness about a new way of leading marked by transparency. Already we've seen his government publishing the appropriations requested, stimulus money granted, and visitors to the White House on the web for all to see. In general, the web has also raised all of our expectations about the availability of information. Transparency now is so much easier to accomplish.
John has taken this to heart, and we've seen the mantra of transparency raise all sorts of questions here at RISD. Like many organizations, we seem to be wrestling with transparency's boundaries. This year, amidst complex budget cuts, we learned about the difference between transparency and clarity — access to all the financial facts versus access to understanding the essential facts that affect us all. In a community of artists and designers, this often means communicating visually. We seem to understand that transparency means a commitment to revealing who makes the decisions, and providing understanding about the basic facts that affect all people in the organization.
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