Applications are in the rolling period, so there's still time to apply for the 2013-2014 year of the MFA in Products of Design at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. If you're looking for a unique graduate education that hits the sweet spot between design thinking and design making, check out the apply page here. From the mission page:
Designers aren't in the artifact business anymore, they're in the consequence business. Design has transformed the world. Now the world is demanding the transformation of designers. The contemporary design challenge of production and consumption demands new approaches to industrial-age methodologies and orthodoxies. What we consider the "products of design" are expanding beyond the mass-produced object, encompassing instructional, interventional, narrative, experiential, and speculative possibilities—all aimed at creating the new types of value that catalyze positive change.
More and more we are recognizing that designed artifacts—be they sets of instructions, posters, social interventions, crafts, hacks, mods, short-runs, manufactures on demand, mass productions, design fictions or design art—need to be integrated more deeply into the value of human life and its prospects. Through a combination of design thinking, design making, and design doing, we immerse our participants in hands-on physical exploration, rigorous investigation, and strategic intent—helping them explore, discover and define the kinds of value required for progress and prosperity.(more...)
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