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Photos From Our 5th Anniversary Reunion!
On April 1st, the MFA Products of Design celebrated it's 5th anniversary, welcoming back graduates from all years since the inception of the program. Designed and produced by the cmmttee—Eden Lew, Natsuki Hayashi, and Marianna Mezhibovskaya—the event featured refreshments from Radiant Pig and the The City Bakery. Thanks to everyone who made the evening so memorable, and enjoy some pictures below!
Design And Politics: The 2016 Presidential Election
Tomorrow, the students of the MFA Products of Design will be out on the streets of New York City providing design interventions around politics and citizenship. We'll follow up with pics very shortly, but for now, take a look at the descriptions, locations, and times below, and come on out to see them!
Products of Design Works with Veterans Affairs Around Women Vets
On the evening of September 26th, representatives from the Veterans Experience Office and the New York Harbor Healthcare System (VA Hospital) came to Products of Design to participate in a group discussion around women veterans. (This semester, the Design Research and Integration class is doing a 15-week project on the issues surrounding women vets.) Topics ranged from the perception of women military in our society, to their unique needs in accessing healthcare services throughout the VA system, to stakeholder eco-system mapping—trying to identify the main players in the area, along with learning about their top needs and interactions.
Futuring Workshop 2016: Envisioning New Devices and Behaviors For Future Scenarios
For our annual orientation futuring workshop, the Class of 2018 engaged in an all-day speculative design charette led by the Extrapolation Factory's Chris Woebken and PoD graduate Steve Hamilton. Following a lecture presentation on conceptual frameworks around the futuring and speculation, the students dove deep into creating artifacts and behiors around scenarios triggered by present and near-future scientific phenomena. Let's dive into the results below (and keep in mind that the team projects were conceived, prototyped, and performed "on the streets of New York" all within 4 hours!
Snapshots From Our 2016 Student Orientation!
18 new graduate students joined Products of Design this year, and kicking off the experience was a two-day Orientation with a futuring workshop at the start and a (delicious) reception at the end. (Erin Clarkson's Cloudy Kitchen catered the closing event.) Enjoys some of the photos below!
MoMA Partnered Project #2 Kickoff: Rare & Well Done
MoMA is back for a second season! Gabrielle Zola (Business Development Manager, MoMA Retail), and Chay Costello (Associate Director of Merchandising at MoMA) came to the MFA Products of Design department last week to kick off the second partnered project with the Museum of Modern Art—this time around the topic of food. Students can't wait to...well, dig in to the project, and we are grateful that MoMA is has chosen to partner with the departmen. This time, students who will be creating products for MoMA's wholesale catalog!
MASTERS THESIS: In Knead: Re-Building Intent in Our Relationship with Food, by Miguel Olivares
Miguel Olivares’s master’s thesis, In Knead: Rebuilding Intent in Our Relationship with Food, examines how food can be a material for relationship building. Miguel’s love for food and design began in a 10-day immersive workshop held in the Domaine de Boisbuchet, France, studying the physical, emotional and experiential benefits associated with cooking. Inspired by the work of neurologists such as Frank Wilson and philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, In Knead focuses on the influence that the hands have on how we engage our way of being in our daily lives. In Knead is a case study in creating purpose through cooking, and is explored as a digital product, tools, public experience, and business enterprise.
ENGENDER from MFA Products of Design is Live at NYCxDesign!
As part of NYCxDesign, the students of the MFA in Products of Design at the School of Visual Arts present Engender, a roving and interactive exhibition that explores the role of design in the construction of gender identities. The exhibition’s eight interventions deconstruct simple artifacts and gestures of our gendered world and invite visitors to play along in a performative game of gender mash up and reconstruction.