DSI / Social Design

MFA Design for
Social Innovation

January 28, 2021

Apply

Read More

Read More

Announcing the 2021 Equity in Design Scholarship

To support underrepresented communities in design, we are offering a new Equity in Design Scholarship to address intersectional oppressions and promote equitable opportunities starting with our own student community. This year, the award will grant $10,000 to one incoming student. This scholarship will be offered for the first time in 2021, and we seek to…

Thrival Mode

Sisters Can

Featured Faculty See All Faculty

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?’”

Karen Proctor

“There are a lot of things that we can do to make life better for a lot of people. But first we have to decide that that’s what we really want to do.”

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."

136 W 21st St,
5th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
(212) 592–2205

SUBSCRIBE

Sign up for our mailing list