DSI / Social Design

MFA Design for
Social Innovation

October 30, 2020

Virtual Open House 2020 10/13-20th

Join us online for the DSI 2020 Virtual Open House November 13 6-8pm EST and November 20th 9-11am EST Register Here

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Fall 2021 Applications Now Open!

We are excited to announce that our applications for Fall 2021 are now officially open! Our MFA candidates are designing for challenging issues faced by communities in government, sustainability, education, health, art and culture, gender, equity, and immigration, to name a few. If these are issues that interest you, we want you here: learning, growing,…

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Wenfei Xu

“When I think about the role of a designer, I don’t think about someone who is just highly capable at colors, graphics, or communication. Designers are people who are capable of bringing together different types of ideas and different ways of seeing the world to propose something coherent and original.”

Cheryl Heller

“Design is the best way to get from A to B when you don’t yet know what B is.”

Miya Osaki

"Our students join us because it fulfills a deep need that nothing else can—to go out and create change, disrupt the status quo, work with communities, and use their own powers of creativity to bring something to life that has not existed before."

Kobla Asamoah

“For me, DSI is deploying innovation–the activity of delivering a product or service as well as aligning the incentives of these activities with mission-based outcomes.”

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