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Apply for our Fall 2025 cohort before the January 15, 2025 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?
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MFA DSI Open House
Join us for an exciting Open House 2024 info session in our NYC Studio with DSI chair Miya Osaki. Enjoy a panel discussion with our DSI Alums who will talk about their practices and careers in social design. Meet students, faculty, and others interested in design and social impact for light snacks, refreshments, and inspiring conversation!
When: Friday, November 1, 2024, 5 – 8 pm EST
Where: MFA DSI, 136 W. 21st Street, 5th Floor
Alum Panelists: Grace Kwon (MFA DSI ’20; Spotify; DSI Faculty), Ryana Burrell (MFA DSI ’20; Grow Progress), Evan Ressegger (MFA DSI ’21; consultant) Mickey Ferrara (MFA DSI ’22; DSI Faculty), Effy Tan (MFA DSI ’23; AAAAH!), Janvi Ghatalia (MFA DSI ’21; DC Design)
Graduate Portfolio Day 2024: San Francisco, CA with Miya Osaki
Meet Miya Osaki, designer, educator, and chair of SVA – MFA Design for Social Innovation on Saturday, October 26, 2024, from 10am – 2 pm EST at the National Portfolio Day event in San Francisco, CA (@ CCA).
MFA DSI Open House 2024
Join SVA-MFA Design for Social Innovation for an exciting Open House info session for our 2025-26 cohort at our MFA DSI studio in NYC. Meet, Miya Osaki, DSI chair, will share about our cross-disciplinary, collaborative, and hands-on graduate program.
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.
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.