Thinking about an MFA in design for social innovation?
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?
MAY 2024
Congratulations MFA DSI Class of 2024!
We’re celebrating the achievements of MFA DSI Class of 2024! Our graduates worked so hard in collaboration with communities over the last two years. Check out their exciting Thesis Projects or click the link below watch a video of the Thesis Show 2024.
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.
Ti Koze Tanbou Ayisyen (Haitian Drums Talk) - Jerome "Junior" Simeon
Jerome Simeon, aka Junior Racine Mapou, is a master drummer and master craftsperson of Haitian ceremonial/folkloric percussion instruments. Read about his performance as a part of our Spring 2024 Open Session.
Begumpura: A Land Without Sorrows
Bhavya Chaudhary (MFA DSI ’24)
“Begumpura: A Land Without Sorrows” is a vision for collective healing through a series of gatherings that leans on various mediums of storytelling, body movement practices, improv, and reflective writing about the lived experiences of the NYC Indian Dalit diaspora. Created in collaboration with Moving Rasa, it holds a safe and brave space to express stories of the resilience of those surviving caste apartheid in the U.S.