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MFA Design Criticism, School of Visual Arts, http://dcrit.sva.edu
SVA MFA Design Criticism Department
136 West 21 Street, Second Floor (between Sixth and Seventh Avenues)
Subway: F, V at 23rd Street; 1 at 23rd Street
The MFA in Design Criticism at the School of Visual Arts is an innovative two-year program that trains students to research, analyze, and evaluate design and its social and environmental implications. Students study with some of the best design writers and thinkers of our time, including: “Studio 360″ host and author Kurt Andersen; MoMA’s design curator Paola Antonelli; former editor of I.D. Magazine Ralph Caplan; Metropolis contributing editor Karrie Jacobs; and architecture critic Justin Davidson.
The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Events
Eventually Everything: The 2012 D-Crit Conference Reception at Vitra 5/2/12 7:30PM - 9:30PM
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Join SVA MFA Design Criticism students, faculty and conference speakers for the Eventually Everything Reception at Vitra, 29 Ninth Avenue...
Eventually Everything: The 2012 D-Crit Conference 5/2/12 12:30PM - 7PM
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Eventually Everything: The 2012 D-Crit Conference Wednesday, May 2, 12:30–7:00 p.m. Visual Arts Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street No charge...
D-Crit Lecture with Damon Rich, "Working the System" 4/17/12 6PM - 8PM
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From designs for an experimental financial learning center in Queens to the first riverfront park in Newark, New Jersey, Damon Rich will...
D-Crit Lecture with Michael Meredith, "Playful Experimentation and Criticism" 4/10/12 6PM - 8PM
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MOS studio is an architectural practice that was born out of playful experimentation. But what does being experimental mean and how is this...
D-Crit Lecture with Cintra Wilson, "Fear and Clothing" 4/3/12 6PM - 8PM
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Considered one of the 50 most influential people working in New York fashion, Cintra Wilson will discuss the process and thinking behind...
D-Crit Lecture with Witold Rybczynski, "The Biography of a Building" 3/27/12 6PM - 8PM
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Witold Rybczynski will share the remarkable inside story of the planning, building, and use of the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts...
D-Crit Lecture with Meredith TenHoor: “The Infrastructure of Mass Consumption” 3/13/12 6PM
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Meredith TenHoor will present some of the markets, transportation networks and other infrastructures which made the mass consumption of...
D-Crit Lecture with Jimenez Lai, "Cartoonish Architecture" 2/28/12 6PM - 8PM
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Jimenez Lai will speak about the alternate worlds depicted by his comics, physical installations, models, and small buildings. He'll...
D-Crit Lecture with Starlee Kine, "How to Capture the Culture Zeitgeist: What Phil Collins and Zombies Have in Common" 2/21/12 6PM - 8PM
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Starlee Kine will discuss how she converts her personal obsessions, of both the negative and positive variety, into universal themes—and...
D-Crit Lunchtime Q&A with Michael Kimmelman 2/14/12 12:30PM - 2:30PM
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Please note that this talk begins at 12:30 p.m. From public housing and community development to issues of social responsibility, The New...
D-Crit Lecture with Jonathan Olivares, "Working with Jonathan Olivares" 2/7/12 6PM - 8PM
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A self-described autodidact, Jonathan Olivares will discuss the process and thinking behind three of his office’s projects: A Taxonomy of...
Aaron Betsky, "Architecture Beyond Building" 1/31/12 6PM - 8PM
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SVA MFA Design CriticismAaron Betsky, "Architecture Beyond Building" In a culture in which buildings are more and more restricted by...
D-Crit Lecture with Mark Dery: "The Politics of Style" 12/13/11 6PM - 8PM
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The cultural logic of the Twentieth Century informs, even now, our notions of what constitutes good writing. Mark Dery excavates the...
D-Crit Lecture with Peter Hall: “Infoviz: Where’s the Critique?” 12/6/11 6PM - 8PM
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Data visualization has lately become an unlikely form of mass entertainment. After the public health professor Hans Rosling presented his...
D-Crit Lecture with Stephanie Murg: “Back to the Future, Fashionably: Brand Identity, Star Designers, and the Bottom Line in Luxury Goods” 11/29/11 6PM - 8PM
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A look at the evolving role of the designer/creative director, brand identity, and big business in the global fashion and luxury goods...
D-Crit Lecture with åbäke: “Seriously Forks XI” 11/3/11 7PM - 9PM
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After a mildly traumatic experience during a lecture in France, the design firm åbäke decided to consider the medium of the conference...
Lecture with Tod Lippy: “The Conception and Development of ESOPUS” 11/1/11 6PM - 8PM
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Each issue of ESOPUS, a magazine which The New York Times has called "a thing of lavish, eccentric beauty," focuses on three artists'...
D-Crit Lecture with Russell Flinchum: “The Other Half of Henry Dreyfuss” 10/25/11 6PM - 8PM
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Dreyfuss, the most important figure in the innovation of anthropometrics in the industrial design process, was a complex figure who...
D-Crit Open House 2011 10/22/11 2PM - 4PM
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D-Crit Open House & Information Session Saturday, October 22, 2:00–4:30 p.m. SVA MFA Design Criticism 136 West 21st Street, 2nd Floor...
D-Crit Lecture with Nicholas Negroponte: “Reflecting on the One Laptop Per Child Project” 10/18/11 6PM - 8PM
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Nicholas Negroponte will reflect on his One Laptop Per Child Project, initiated in 2006 to distribute wireless Internet-enabled computers...
D-Crit Lecture with Thumb: “Some Loose Connections” 10/11/11 6PM - 8PM
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Based on their working experience, influences and interests, the partners of Thumb will set out a range of possible correlations between...
D-Crit Lecture with Rick Poynor: “We the Undersigned: A Manifesto about Manifestos” 10/6/11 6PM - 8PM
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Times of crisis demand action. Decisive action requires bold ideas delivered in compelling words and forms. A talk about how and why...
Present Tense: The 2011 D-Crit Conference 5/4/11 1PM - 8PM
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Join us on May 4 for “Present Tense: The 2011 D-Crit Conference,” starring graduating students from the School of Visual Arts MFA Design...
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