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The MFA in Design for Social Innovation

New York City's School for Visual Arts created the first MFA program in Social Impact Design. It's for anyone who wants to lead change in business, government, as entrepreneurs and the social sector. They work at a systems level, at human scale. If you want a better future, they encourage you to come design it!

What is design for social innovation you ask?  Cheryl Heller, Founding Chair of the program, offers an overview in this interview via Just Means.

They're actively recruiting for their Fall class. Learn more or sign up HERE.

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What is tragic is that the bloody end, “the great wound swimming upwards” like a shark (Aeschylus again), is unintended but no less inevitable for that. We don’t intend that the pursuit of personal wealth should lead to the bankruptcy of an entire nation, but bankrupt we are. We don’t intend that our strategic military actions should lead to an endless and uncontrollable spiraling of violence, but it does. We don’t intend that the pursuit of our happiness should lead to the extinction of animals, desertification, drought, famine, mass human migration, violent storms, but all that is presently “swimming upwards” regardless of what we intend.

https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-barbaric-heart/

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A Graceful Transition to a Better World - Why Design for Social Innovation

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Lunch Talk with Cheryl Heller Cheryl Heller is the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at SVA and founder of CommonWise. She’s taught creativity to leaders and organizations around the world, helped grow businesses from small regional enterprises to multi-billion global market leaders, launched category-redefining divisions and products, reinvigorated moribund cultures, and designed strategies for dozens of successful entrepreneurs. She has been successfully practicing social innovation and communication design for many years, with major corporations like Seventh Generation, Ford, American Express, Reebok, Mariott International, Cemex, Gap, Bayer Corporation L'Oreal, Hearst, Hachette Filipacci, Banorte and Sappi, non- profits such as WWF, Audubon, IDE (International Development Enterprises), Concern Worldwide, Synergos, The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education, and the Girl Scouts of America. She also works with leading foundations including Ford Foundation, F.B. Heron and Lumina Foundation. She created the Ideas that Matter program for Sappi in 1999 and advised Paul Polak and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum on the exhibit, “Design for the Other 90%.” She is a past Board Chair and currently an advisor to PopTech, and has been a core faculty member for the PopTech Social Innovation Fellows. She is a Senior Fellow at the Babson Social Innovation Lab and the Lewis Institute, on the Innovation Advisory Board for the Lumina Foundation, and an advisor to DataKind. She writes for many publications, including the Unreasonable Institute, Good.is, NextBillion, JustMeans and Dowser.

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"We know a lot about making things, but we really don’t have a practice of shifting social systems."  Discussion with DSI faculty Marc Rettig on UX Magazine.

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EcoBitch

#hippiesvsselfies group is now EcoBitch! Let us know what you think! 

- Hannah, Amer, Bruno, Rod

http://ecobitch.tumblr.com/

EcoBitch

one whose consumption habits inflict minimal to no harm on the environment while being totes fab. 

Manifest

EcoBitch is the leading example of how being totally fabulous is not mutually exclusive from being environmentally friendly. In fact, they are totally synonymous. EcoBitches are conscious and intelligent consumers who actually care about what they put in their bodies, on their bodies, and surround themselves with. 

EcoBitches are completely different from basic bitches. EcoBitches actually give a shit about other humans, animals, and the environment and does something about it in a badass way. Sure both EcoBitches and basic bitches love pumpkin spice lattes but you will never see an EcoBitch with a fugly disposable Starbucks cup. 

Protocols

#HowToBeAnEcoBitch Here we want to show how easy being an EcoBitch can be by featuring sustainable alternatives to everyday items, such as using a reusable water bottle instead of a plastic water bottle.

#EcoBitchWantItWednesday On Wednesdays we wear pink. We also will be posting about an item or product, from clothing to cleaning supplies, that are environmentally friendly.

#EcoBitchFeatureFriday Every Friday we will post about a person or a company that is an EcoBitch and is doing awesome things to help the environment.