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Join the SVA D-Crit department on Thursday, May 29 for an evening of food-related design criticism readings at the KGB bar.
Design curator extraordinaire Paola Antonelli deconstructs the art and science of the pasta shell. Design essayist and author Akiko Busch will treat us to her delicious musings on the vegetable peeler which, when seen through Busch’s eyes, reveals the poetry of the kitchen. And Paul Lukas, who recently blasted Heinz EZ Squirt Blastin’ Green Ketchup, will take us on a lo-fi historical tour of butcher-chart design.
This event is part of a bi-monthly series of reading nights, organized in anticipation of the Fall 2008 launch of the Design Criticism MFA program at the School of Visual Arts. All are warmly invited
to attend.
About the Design Criticism MFA
The new MFA in Design Criticism at the School of Visual Arts is still accepting applications for Fall 2008!
This innovative two-year program, launching in Fall 2008, trains students to research, analyze, and evaluate design and its social and environmental implications. Students study with some of the best design writers and thinkers of our time, including: “Studio 360” host and author Kurt Andersen; MoMA’s design curator Paola Antonelli; Pentagram partner and co-founder of Design Observer, Michael Bierut; former editor of I.D. Magazine Ralph Caplan; Metropolis contributing editor Karrie Jacobs; and architecture critic Philip Nobel.
Program Outline
The SVA MFA in Design Criticism–the first of its kind in the United States–seeks to cultivate design criticism as a discipline and contribute to public discourse with new writing and thinking that is imaginative, historically informed and socially accountable. Drawing on the broadest possible definition of design, the curriculum includes graphic, web and product design, as well as fashion, urban planning and networked systems. The course of study couples a theoretical framework with significant opportunities for practical experience. In providing the tools for researching, analyzing, evaluating and chronicling all aspects of design, students will prepare for careers as design critics, journalists, editors, curators, educators and design managers.
Students
We welcome students from a range of academic backgrounds whose diverse perspectives and experiences enrich the debate. The program is equally well suited to designers, who want to hone their skills in writing and critical thinking, as it is to journalists and writers, who wish to deepen their understanding of design. Students will learn skills and techniques for the uncovering of data, the development of a story and for communicating with different audiences. The two-year program places significant emphasis on the practical application of the many methodologies it teaches. Students will produce tangible documents of their critical practice, such as books, blogs, documentaries, course syllabi, conferences and exhibitions.
For more information on faculty, curriculum, and how to apply, please visit http://dcrit.sva.edu
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Alice Twemlow, Chair
SVA MFA in Design Criticism
http://dcrit.sva.edu
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