D-Crit is pleased to present the Spring season of its Tuesday Night Lecture Series. First-year students have curated this Spring's list, which includes Art Institute of Chicago design curator Zoë Ryan, GSA director of Design Excellence and the Arts Casey Jones, documentary filmmaker Gary Hustwit and author David Barringer, among others. Students will host and introduce their selected speakers and we invite you to join us in the department for a lecture and some lively discussion followed by drinks and snacks.
March 16: Deborah Marton, executive director of the Design Trust for Public Space
"Design Trust: Building Partnerships to Improve Public Space"
March 30: Casey Jones, director of Design Excellence and the Arts for the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)
"E Pluribus Unum: Creating Design Policy in the U.S.A"
April 6: Brian Collins and John Fulbrook, chairman and creative director of COLLINS
"Defining the Story"
April 13: Gary Hustwit, independent filmmaker, director of
Helvetica and
Objectified
"On the Design of Certain Films about Design"
April 20: David Barringer, author,
American Home Life (So New Press, 2007),
Johnny Red (Word Riot Press, 2005)
"Design As Literature: The Changing Shape of the Novel"
Wednesday April 21: Elio Caccavale, designer and artist
"Design in the Age of Biotechnologies"
April 27: Joanne Dolan Ingersoll, Curator of Costume and Textiles at the Museum of Art, RISD
"Mannequins in the Museum: Perspectives on Curating Fashion"
*Full speaker bios and talk descriptions can be found on the D-Crit Web site, http://dcrit.sva.edu
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Alice Twemlow, Chair
atwemlow@sva.edu
SVA MFA Design Criticism is accepting applications for Fall 2010 on a rolling admissions basis, as space allows.
Create original segments in a Radio and Podcasting Workshop with PRI's "Studio 360" senior producer Leital Molad and host Kurt Andersen; voyage deep into 20th century design with design historian Russell Flinchum; learn investigative journalism techniques with Change Observer editor Julie Lasky, curate exhibitions with MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli and Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum curator Matilda McQuaid, and find your critical voice with Ralph Caplan, Akiko Busch, and Andrea Codrington.
The core curriculum, which trains students to research, analyze, and evaluate design and its social and environmental implications, is supplemented by the specialist knowledge of more than 40 visiting critics and lecturers per semester. Recent guests include Sam Tanenhaus, editor of
New York Times Book Review, industrial designer Ayse Birsel, Gawker.com editor-in-chief Gabriel Snyder,
New York Times perfume critic Chandler Burr, author and critic Rick Poynor, and Cathy Leff, director of the Wolfsonian Museum.
We welcome applicants 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 or filmmakers, who wish to deepen their understanding of design.
D-Crit students have interned with The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, Environmental Health Clinic + Lab at New York University, LOT-EK, Pentagram, Base Design, and OMA Rotterdam. They have also been busy publishing in influential titles such as Design Observer, AIGA Voice, Core 77,
Eye, Icon, and
Surface, presenting at conferences, and winning awards such as the Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing and Criticism.
Admission to the two-year program is by online application and the submission of required documents. Candidates are encouraged to discuss their application with the department chair. We are also happy to arrange for prospective students to tour the department, meet some of the current students and to attend a class, a Tuesday evening lecture, or the D-Crit Conference.
Departmental scholarships are available on a competitive basis.
For more information on faculty, curriculum, and how to apply, please visit
http://dcrit.sva.edu/.
