Be a part of our next cohort!
We are still accepting applications for Fall 2024
(just a few spots left!)
DSI is a graduate social design program that asks:
- How can design offer pathways that shift us towards healthy, equitable systems?
- What conditions and collaborations enable communities, systems, and nature to thrive?
- How can social design increase care and our capacity
for change?
DSI Thesis Show 2024
Join us at the MFA DSI Thesis Show 2024.
Our MFA candidates are engaging with an array of diverse communities, from Bronx youth to South Asian diaspora groups, Chinese-American nurses to first-generation Korean immigrant women, from East New York residents to tween girls in Latin America. These collaborations and co-creative efforts exemplify the incredible transformative power of social design.
Talking with Mari Nakano:
DSI Designer In Residence
An interview with Mari Nakano, DSI Spring 2024 Designer in Residence about her explorations in “Show Love Through Food” looking at how natural cycles, heritage, nourishment, belonging, and reconnection can inform our social design practices.
The Missing Ingredient
Nidhi Desai (MFA DSI ’21)
“The Missing Ingredient” is a community space to support the work of New York Common Pantry. It aims to educate, persuade and facilitate conversations which are moderated by nutrition educators about local, seasonal and traditional foods with parents/caregivers to bring nutrition security for them and their families in order to prevent childhood obesity in the Bronx.