Be a part of our next cohort!
We are still accepting applications for Fall 2024* — 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?
SCHOLARSHIPS
Still accepting applications for Fall 2024!
We are still accepting applications to MFA Design for Social Innovation as space allows. Early applicants are eligible for our two departmental award scholarships for Fall 2024. Those passionate about making a difference in the world: Socially minded, nature-lovers, creative leaders, critical storytellers, innovators, action-takers, and curious makers NEED APPLY.
*We seek diversity, so non-designers are encouraged!
Typecraft Initiative Workshop - Ishan Khosla
The Typecraft Initiative Craft-Design Methodology Workshop provides an exciting and challenging opportunity for design students to think and work creatively and collaboratively with an emphasis on understanding the craft communities and material culture.
Mari Nakano
DSI Designer In Residence
“I Show Love Through Food”: Mari Nakano’s Spring residency focused on understanding how food’s power when combined with the themes of natural cycles, heritage, nourishment, belonging, and reconnection can inform our social design practices.
The Slow Hands Lab
Jiayi Dong (MFA DSI ’19)
A program to help Su Embroidery artists increase their economic opportunities and have their value acknowledged by pairing them in collaboration with New York-based contemporary designers.