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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?

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Social design
works with communities, organizations, governments, businesses, and the planet through:

Strengthening Relationships + Care

Advocating for health, equity, anti-discrimination, justice, joy, and healing, Supporting shared values and interdependence, and honoring nature’s wisdom.
Design asks questions over solving problems, with care.

Intentionally
Co-Creating

Collaborating with communities, advocating for mutual benefit and abundance. Centering lived experience, while reducing harm.
Design can shift power, while building leadership and creatively responding.

Embracing Complexities

Breaking from things that no longer serve us. Recognizing the continuum and pluralities, and making the invisible visible.
Design supports new thinking over new things to imagine possibility and lead with vision.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Accepting applications for Fall 2024

Submit your application to be considered for financial scholarships.

We are still accepting applications* for Fall 2024 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!

EVENTS

Global Guest Lecture: Suad Aldarra, I Don't Want To Talk About Home

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BLOG

Talking with Mari Nakano:
DSI Designer In Residence

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EVENTS

See Karen + David Proctor's show: Grabbing the Hammer Lane

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Thesis 2023

Where’s your water from?

Pallavi Rawla (MFA DSI ’23)

A thesis project exploring water conservation and building connections between residents in India to their natural sources of water.

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