Six-week summer intensive at the School of Visual Arts and webinar series
The School of Visual Arts is still accepting applications for Impact! Design for Social Change, a six-week summer intensive in New York City. To learn more about the program and our faculty, view our archived webinar series Impact! Sessions online.
To remain competitive, corporations are looking for innovation and impact in the area of social change as it relates to their businesses. The non-profit world is seeking new ways to support their constituencies through design strategy. This six-week summer intensive will introduce participants to the growing field of design for social advocacy.
Impact: Design for Social Change is an advanced program that runs on two parallel tracks: Track One will focus on social entrepreneurship and educate students on how to conceive, execute and fund their own projects for social change – projects that are not client-based. At the end of the workshop each student will have a fully developed concept with clear steps on how to implement it if they choose to do so. Along Track Two, students will participate in the development and execution of a team project that addresses a pressing need for a New York City-based non-profit organization. The approach will be different from the traditional client-designer relationship in that the non-profit will not bring to the table a pre-determined assignment. Students will consult with each organization to access a problem to tackle.
This is a program at a level on par with graduate studies. The intensive offers advanced students and working professionals a unique opportunity to study with faculty composed of leading designers and social entrepreneurs. In addition, weekly lectures and field trips will allow students to directly interact with a dynamic range of innovators in the field.
This is a rapidly growing area of design. This program will instill in participants the confidence, self-motivation and collaborative spirit which will be needed as they continue on to work as design activists.
Professionals, educators and advanced students in the following disciplines are invited to participate: advertising, graphic design, product design, information design, interactive design, fashion design, photography and illustration. The program is oriented towards these design disciplines but we have had architects and social entrepreneurs participate.
Impact! Design for Social Change the School of Visual Arts and Design Ignites Change present a series of free 30-minute webinars that explore how design-driven ideas for social good are launched.
Each session is hosted by Mark Randall, chair of Impact! Design for Social Change and principal of Worldstudio, in conversation with business leaders, creative professionals and influencers working in the area of social change.
View the following archived Impact! Sessions online.
The Power of Partnerships
Michael Blakeney, Good Profit
Funding Social Change
Andréa Pellegrino, Pellegrino Collaborative
Thinking Like a Social Entrepreneur
Shana Dressler, Social Innovators Collective
Why We Care: Using the Power of Empathy to Connect People to Your Cause
Bob McKinnon, GALEWill
Designing with Communities
Anne Frederick, Hester Street Collaborative
Impact Measurement: How to Measure What Matters
Kyla Fullenwider, Imperative
For questions or to apply, contact Keren Moscovitch at T 212 592 2188 or [email protected].
