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MFA Design for
Social Innovation

November 30, 2020

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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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December 9, 2020

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Graduate Admissions Preview Night 12/2

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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.”

Asi Burak

“There is innovation, and then there is innovation with meaning, which is trying to change society for the better. That’s the innovation we’re looking for, it doesn’t have to be technological, it doesn’t need to be disruptive, it needs to be undertaken with society in mind.”

Jaimie Cloud

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions, so the intention is absolutely necessary, but it's not enough.”

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