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Apply for Fall 2025 before the January 15 Priority Deadline for earliest consideration.
MFA 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?
EVENTS
SVA Graduate Programs Portfolio Review & Info Session NYC
Saturday, November 9 (11 – 5pm) @ SVA Graduate Center, 136 W 21st Street, New York, NY 10011
Join our combined School of Visual Arts Graduate departments for an in-person portfolio review and information session. Prospective graduate students can get feedback on their portfolio and speak with SVA graduate department representatives about curriculum, SVA campus life and new interdisciplinary options. See you there!
MFA DSI *Virtual* Open House 2024
Join MFA Design for Social Innovation for an exciting *Virtual* Open House info session on Zoom. Meet, Miya Osaki, DSI chair, will share about our cross-disciplinary, collaborative, and hands-on graduate program.
Bold Outlines: Celebrating SVA’s Graduate Programs
SVA presents an exhibition of works by alumni and students from more than a dozen of SVA’s graduate programs, curated by Daniela Marin Aristizába and Lotte Marie Allen. Featuring the work of Héctor Ruiz (MFA DSI ’25), COMPA, a collaboration with communities on both sides of the US and Mexican border.
Graduate Portfolio Day 2024: New York City
Meet Jen Miraflor Director of MFA Design for Social Innovation at the National Portfolio Day event in New York City (Parsons School of Design). Share your portfolio and get feedback. Ask questions. Discuss design and your interest in making a difference in the world.
Rooted Restaurants
Evan Ressegger, Qingyi (Bridget) Qian, & Darya (Dasha) Zlochevsky (MFA DSI ’21)
“Rooted Restaurants” is reimagining restaurant resilience. The project focuses on local solutions and tools to co-create community restaurant resilience. The goal is to increase communications between restaurants on Avenue B in the East Village and their respective communities.