Call for Applications:
Priority Deadline January 15, 2012
The School of Visual Arts is thrilled to announce its call for applications to the MFA in Products of Design program. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, with a priority deadline of January 15, 2012, for its inaugural class entering September 2012.
The MFA in Products of Design is an immersive, two-year graduate program that prepares exceptional practitioners across various disciplines for leadership in the shifting terrain of design. We educate heads, hearts and hands to reinvent systems and catalyze positive change through the business of making.
Students gain fluency in the three fields crucial to the future of design: Making—from the handmade to digital fabrication; Structures—business, research, systems, strategy, user experience and interaction; and Narratives—including video storytelling, history and point of view. Through project-based work that engages emerging science and materials, social cooperation and public life, students develop the skills and fluency to create positive consequence. They emerge with the confidence, experience and professional networks to fill senior positions at top design firms and progressive organizations, to create ingenious enterprises of their own, and to become lifelong advocates for the power of design.
Please join us for our inaugural Information Session where you will have the chance to meet Department Chair Allan Chochinov and over twenty renowned faculty members, chat with fellow prospective students, and preview the curriculum.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
11 AM–2 PM
136 West 21st St, 7th Floor, New York City
RSVP at sva.edu/grad/visit
DEPARTMENT CHAIR
Allan Chochinov, Partner, Core77
DEPARTMENT CO-FOUNDER
Steven Heller, Co-chair, MFA Design Department, SVA; editor, VOICE: AIGA Online Journal of Graphic Design
FACULTY
Marc Alt, founder, publisher, Open Source Cities; Paola Antonelli, senior curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art; Emilie Baltz, creative director, BALTZ WORKS; Ayse Birsel, founder, co-principal, Birsel + Seck; Scott Chapps, co-founder, creative director, ChappsMalina Inc.; Brian Chui, designer; Michael Chung, designer, photographer, filmmaker; Andrew H. Dent, vice president, Library and Materials Research, Material ConneXion; Carla Diana, senior designer, Smart Design; Tina Roth Eisenberg, founder, SwissMiss Studio, creative director, organizer of lecture series, CreativeMornings; Ingrid Fetell, human factors specialist, IDEO; Bart Haney, account lead, Fuseproject, founder, Superhappybunny; Claire Hartten, sitopian designer, researcher, project developer; Monica Khemsurov, co-editor, Sight Unseen, co-founder, curator, Noho Design District, writer; Julie Lasky, editor, Change Observer; David Malina, co-founder, ChappsMalina Inc.; Sigi Moeslinger, partner, Antenna Design New York Inc.; Jay Parkinson, co-founder, The Future Well, co-founder, Hello Health; Andrew Schloss, director, Brand, Reinstein/Ross, Goldsmiths; Jason Severs, principal designer, principal lead, frog design; Jill Singer, co-editor, Sight Unseen, co-founder, curator, Noho Design District, writer, curator; Sinclair Smith, industrial designer; Becky Stern, associate editor, video producer, Maker Media (MAKE: magazine, craftzine); Richard Tyson, co-founder, managing principal, Helsinki Group; Masamichi Udagawa, partner, Antenna Design New York Inc.; Jen van der Meer, executive vice president, Dachis Group; Rob Walker, freelance journalist, New York Times Magazine, Slate; Helen Walters, writer, researcher, Doblin; Amy Whitaker, author, creative strategist; and John Zapolski, co-founder, Fonderie47.
Contact:
Productsofdesign.sva.edu
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