DCRIT

SVA D -CRIT

MA Design Research, Writing and Criticism

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A two-semester master's at the frontiers of design.

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New Course: Critical Writing on Fashion and Style

Join us for Prose Stylists: Critical Writing on Fashion and Style, an eight-session course exploring ways fashion can be defined, approached, and discussed through writing. Engage with a wide array of genres and embrace the best New York fashion has to offer through field trips to leading institutions and seminars with guests from top publications.

Instructor: Vanessa Rosales

Program Dates: June 20 - 29, 2023

Location: School of Visual Arts in New York City

Tuition: $300

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Updates

Making Sense: The 2022 Design Writing & Research Summer Intensive Publication

Featuring student work from our faculty-led workshops including Narrative Strategies for Objects, Engineered Nature, and The Art of the Profile.

Eva Hagberg, "TMI: The Purpose and Pleasure of the Personal"

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“I want to propose that there is both purpose and pleasure in the personal. The purpose is somewhat easy to define… but what about pleasure?”

Author, educator, and historian Eva Hagberg ponders the power of our own narratives as writers and critics in “TMI: The Purpose and Pleasure of the Personal”. This potent keynote address was presented as part of our inaugural Ralph Caplan Memorial Lecture.

Reads

ReadAnonymous Intimacy: Designing Rage, Joy, Inclusivity, and Connection in Live Entertainmenton Medium

05.17.22
Author Bio: Brooke Viegut

ReadMaking Sense: The 2022 Design Writing & Research Summer Intensive Publicationon Medium

02.21.23
Author Bio: DCrit Summer Intensive Class of 2022

ReadPractice Makes Patients: Diagnosing the Design of the Pelvic Examon Medium

05.17.22
Author Bio: Cornelia Smith

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Events

Design Writing and Research Summer Intensive

06.05.23 – 10:00 am

How to Nail a Hammer: The D-Crit Class of 2023 Graduate Thesis Symposium and Book Launch

05.16.23 – 5:30 pm

Justin Zhuang, "Proposal to Publication: The Making of Everyday Modernism"

05.09.23 – 11:00 am

Prem Krishnamurthy, "Department of Transformation"

04.25.23 – 12:00 pm

Angela Riechers with Matt Rohal, "Proposal to Publication: The Making of The Elements of Visual Grammar"

04.11.23 – 6:00 p.m.

Publication-in-residence NYRA Issue #33 Launch Party

02.03.23 – 7:00 pm

Inaugural Ralph Caplan Memorial Lecture with keynote by Eva Hagberg

12.14.22 – 4:30 pm

Fall 2022 Online Info Session & Open House

11.08.22 – 12:00 pm

Steven Heller, "Growing up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York"

10.25.22 – 6:30 pm

Vanessa Rosales, "The Caribbean Female Gaze: Writing and the Uncomfortable Hybrid"

10.05.22 – 6:30 pm

Monica Nelson, "Edible Flowers"

05.27.22 – 12:30pm

STRATA-GIES: The D-Crit Class of 2022 Graduate Thesis Symposium

07.23.21 – 12:30pm

Milton Glaser and Walter Bernard with Anne Quito, ” Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines”

12.03.19 – 6:30 pm

Application deadline: 2023 Online Design Writing & Research Summer Intensive

04.01.10 – 11:59 pm