Now is the Time to Apply for Fall 2025.
Apply for Fall 2025 before the January 15 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?
EVENTS
SVA Graduate Studies Info Session & Open House 2024
Saturday, December 7 (1 – 4pm) @ SVA Graduate Center, 136 W 21st Street, NYC (first floor)
Join our info session featuring 16 SVA Graduate Programs. Hear more about MFA Design for Social Innovation program and learn more about what a degree in social design can do for you (and our futures) and why we need more creative leaders.
Ask Us Anything! Info Session for Fall 2025
Join our DSI info session on Thursday, December 12 from 8 – 9 am EST on Zoom (Registration is required to receive the zoom link).
Afterthought: Design Critique with Emily Kao
Through the memories and memorabilia of Emily Kao relatives in Taiwan, this documentary short follows the rituals she took to meet her long-deceased maternal grandparents.
Scholarships: A closer look at Financial Aid
Financing a graduate degree can look different for everyone. Click below to see how MFA DSI can assist with financial Aid.
Todo Sobre Las Chicas
Joy Roach (MFA DSI ’24)
“Todo Sobre Las Chicas” helps teen girls in Latin America socially reintegrate after in-home abuse and trauma by envisioning a girl-led future of safety through independence, inner confidence, faith-based activities, and the development of sisterhood.”