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Current company Sva Ma Design Research, Writing & Criticism
Design Services · 3 employees · Founded 2008 · New York, New York, United States
The two-semester MA in Design Research, Writing & Criticism provides intensive instruction in techniques for researching, analyzing, and interpreting design and its cultural and environmental implications. The program combines humanities-oriented critical thinking and journalistic tools to produce writing and editorial content intended to inform and engage broad audiences. The rigorous one-year MA with thesis offers a high-impact, targeted program well suited to the circumstances of both established professionals and recent graduates wishing to continue their studies at an advanced level. The SVA MA in Design Research, Writing & Criticism features an unparalleled core faculty, comprised of celebrated curators, editors, critics, and designers such as: The New York Times senior culture reporter Robin Pogrebin, PIN-UP founder and editor at large Alex de Looz, design educator and author Steven Heller, podcast producer Leital Molad, and urban design critic Karrie Jacobs. With numerous guest lecturers and critics visiting the department every semester—recent visitors have included The New Yorker “Talk of the Town” editor Lizzie Widdicombe, media critic and author Virginia Heffernan, designer Rob Giampietro, biographer Deborah Solomon, IDEO strategist Alex Gallafent, architecture curator Sean Anderson—the program takes particular care to connect students to inspirational mentors and help them to forge relationships with potential employers, mentors and colleagues. The program’s curriculum charts the cutting edge of design practice and is responsive to exciting developments in the media landscape. It aims to generate provocative new thinking about design and to help shape the ways in which design is engendered, presented, and evaluated. In providing the tools for constructing compelling narratives about design in multiple formats, the program amply prepares students for future-facing careers in research, publishing, museums, institutes, design practice, and more.