DSI / Social Design

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Social Innovation

June 25, 2022

Congratulations, Class of 2022!

The DSI community is so proud of our class of 2022! On Monday, May 9th, we held a memorable show at the SVA Theatre in the heart of Chelsea. It was an amazing celebration of our resilient graduating cohort’s hard work and dedication to making change within their communities and the world. This year’s…

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A Look Back on Co-Designing with Ben Norskov and Mohini Dutta

This past weekend, an assortment of first and second-year students and faculty gathered together at the DSI studio under the guidance of Games for Impact Instructors Ben Norskov and Mohini Dutta for a workshop on co-design: a process intended to generate capabilities and tools to utilize in their own work practice as they collaborate with…

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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."

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."

Jaimie Cloud

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

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.”

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