Grow your community here.
Apply for our Fall 2025 cohort before the January 15, 2025 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?
AfterThought Zine Workshop: Unlawful, Unauthorized, Unsanctioned, Unlicensed
AfterThought presents Andrew Diemer (he/him), who will lead a workshop on Oct 17 exploring the vast potential of zine making, delving into its social, political, and artistic significance.
Graduate Portfolio Day 2024: San Francisco, CA with Miya Osaki
Meet Miya Osaki, designer, educator, and chair of SVA – MFA Design for Social Innovation on Saturday, October 26, 2024, from 10am – 2 pm EST at the National Portfolio Day event in San Francisco, CA (@ CCA).
MFA DSI Open House 2024
Join SVA-MFA Design for Social Innovation for an exciting Open House info session for our 2025-26 cohort at our MFA DSI studio in NYC. Meet, Miya Osaki, DSI chair, will share about our cross-disciplinary, collaborative, and hands-on graduate program.
Rooted Restaurants
Evan Ressegger, Qingyi (Bridget) Qian, & Darya (Dasha) Zlochevsky (MFA DSI ’21)
“Rooted Restaurants” is reimagining restaurant resilience. The project focuses on local solutions and tools to co-create community restaurant resilience. The goal is to increase communications between restaurants on Avenue B in the East Village and their respective communities.