Learn to lead, creatively.
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
George Aye, Greater Good Studio Workshop: Reframing Problems for Social Change
As changemakers, many of us struggle with the most complex issues of our time. Systems of oppression are not only entrenched but interconnected. And even as we work to solve problems on the daily, a paralyzing thought can creep in: am I even solving the right problem? Whether you’re a designer looking to make a positive impact or a changemaker looking to get unstuck, this workshop will give you concrete tools for starting or restarting your projects in a more strategic, action-oriented, and equitable way. Open to the Public.
Heart of Dinner volunteering at MFA DSI Open Session
SVA students support Heart of Dinner 愛心餐, a nonprofit organization combating food insecurity and isolation in NYC elderly Asian communities at an MFA DSI Open Session.
Housing Justice collaboration in the Bronx
This community-based effort unites to improve tenant rights in the Bronx. Please click below to learn more.
Andrea Miranda Salas (MFA DSI ’20)
DSI Alum putting social design to work. “What are DSI graduates doing? What kind of jobs do DSI students get?”
Power is Local
Catherine Mazzocchi and Jennifer Ulloa (MFA DSI ’20)
Power is Local builds Black, Latinx, & Spanish-speaking Northern Manhattan community power, to ensure that people most impacted by energy insecurity’s increasingly harmful effects on community wellbeing can develop critical policy action.