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Getting Started & Practical Tools

“There are countless ways to research design. What matters most is finding what works for you.”

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Getting Started & Practical Tools

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How To: Draw Conclusions

Swimming for meaning in comic book ink.

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How To: Draw Conclusions

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How To: Justify Empire

“How did American narratives of this historical truth cause the omission of Filipino narratives — some to the point of erasure?”

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How To: Justify Empire

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Customer Support

How-Tos contributed by MA Design Research, Writing and Criticism faculty and alumni.

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How To: Stay Cool

“I was very curious about this idea of enhancing the ordinary, the mundane, even the ugly, and not taking away its identity, its…

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How To: Stay Cool

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How To: Dehumanize Parenthood

“Both the Radio Nurse and the Owlet Smart Sock are examples of products that attempt to design certainty into the inherently messy…

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How To: Dehumanize Parenthood

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How To: Re-Imagine City Life

“In the city, water and soil have entered a different circuit, defined by a commanding human-centered view of reality.”

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How To: Re-Imagine City Life

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How To: Sell Youth Culture

“What happens when the teen on the street and the teen in the ad lock eyes?”

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How To: Sell Youth Culture

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How To: Mobilize the Labor of Love

“By not articulating the value of mothers’ emotional labor, they further reinforce fathers’ destiny to fulfill the “instrumental role.””

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How To: Mobilize the Labor of Love

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Chaos Agents

The Eyes of Texas: Interstate Surveillance and Bodily Autonomy in Amarillo

“As a design object, highways have long determined who lives and dies. For pregnant people fleeing Texas towns, that historical…

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The Eyes of Texas: Interstate Surveillance and Bodily Autonomy in Amarillo

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SVA MA Design Research, Writing and Criticism

SVA MA Design Research, Writing and Criticism

We’re a two-semester MA program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City dedicated to the study of design, its contexts and consequences. (aka D–Crit)

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