DSI / Social Design

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Social Innovation

April 16, 2021

Thesis Show 2021

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Announcing the 2021 Paul Polak Scholarship

DSI is excited to announce that we will once again be granting our annual Paul Polak scholarship to an incoming student. Now in its 7th year, this $10,000 a year scholarship will be awarded to one student in the class of 2023. In light of his passing in 2019, we hope that this award will…

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May 7, 2021

Thesis Show 2021!

April 22, 2021

Community Design For Leaders info Session

Healthy Masculinity Forum

Youth Action Lab

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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."

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.”

Kate Reed Petty

"Design for social innovation takes two types of courage: First, the courage to envision a better world, and second, the courage to do the hard work of thinking through everything it takes to actually make change happen."

Paul Lillehaugen

“Designing for social innovation means asking, ‘what are the problems around me that need a solution?’ and then, ‘why are the current solutions not working? How can I reframe the question in a different way to find a more effective approach?’”

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