DSI / Social Design

MFA Design for
Social Innovation

September 24, 2022

DSI is evolving!

Big news: we’re evolving! As MFA Design for Social Innovation enters its 10th year, we are welcoming change and moving forward with intention. Over the next few months, expect to see a new logo, new website, and new connections that will all support our commitment to creativity, curiosity and care! Stay tuned!

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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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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."

Emily Herrick

"Practitioners of DSI believe that the design practice should evolve beyond its colonist, capitalist past—where it has been harnessed solely for financial gain."

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."

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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