Get to Know SVA’s D-Crit Program

Here’s your chance to get the scoop on the graduate program that we can’t stop talking about. On Saturday, October 22, the School of Visual Arts’ Design Criticism department will host an afternoon of presentations and informal discussion about its MFA in Design Criticism, better known by its rapper name, D-Crit. Students will talk about their experiences so far, delightful D-Crit chairperson Alice Twemlow will provide a program overview, and faculty members Andrea Codrington Lippke, Steven “Design Mind” Heller, and Karen Stein will discuss the courses they teach. Stick around to hear designer Massimo Vignelli reflect on what has been achieved since he wrote the essay “Call for Criticism” in 1983, and what are the priorities for today’s emerging design critics. Two such priorities—mimosas and doughnuts—will be on offer, and if you ask nicely, we suspect they’ll let you peruse the twelve-volume reprint set of Domus that we spied in one of the D-Crit classrooms on a recent visit. Get all of the details and register here. And read on for a look at the department’s stellar fall lecture series.

Lectures take place on Tuesdays from 6:00-8:30 p.m. at the School of Visual Arts in New York City: 136 West 21st Street, 2nd Floor. All lectures are free and open to the public but you do need to register to reserve your space.

October 4: Allison Arieff, “From Derrida to Dwell to DIY Urbanism”

October 6: Rick Poynor, “We the Undersigned: A Manifesto about Manifestos”

October 11: Thumb, “Some Loose Connections”

October 18: Nicholas Negroponte, “Reflecting on the One Laptop Per Child Project”

October 25: Russell Flinchum, “The Other Half of Henry Dreyfuss”

November 1: Tod Lippy, “More than Words”

November 3: åbäke, “Seriously Forks XI”

November 8: Meredith TenHoor, “The Infrastructure of Mass Consumption”

November 29: Stephanie Murg, “Back to the Future, Fashionably: Brand Identity, Star Designers, and the Bottom Line in Luxury Goods”

December 6: Peter Hall, “Infoviz: Where’s the Critique?”

December 13: Mark Dery, “The Politics of Style”

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