Hasta La Ideas

The new MFA Products of Design program at SVA will hold it’s first Information Session/ Open House next Saturday, November 5th. Chaired by Core77’s Allan Chochinov, participants will have the opportunity to meet over 20 faculty (including Bill Moggridge, Julie Lasky, Ingrid Fetell, Steven Heller and a host of others), chat with other prospective students, eat some great food and get a solid preview of the curriculum. Here are the details:

Please join us for our inaugural Information Session. 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.

Check out all the goings on at the department goings on at the site.
RSVP for the Open House/Information Session event here.

Also don’t forget to check out the faculty video profiles that have been going live this past week, including faculty members Helen Walters, Andrew Dent, Sigi Moeslinger, John Zapolski, and Ayse Birsel. A brief compilation video is below:

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