ABOUT BFA DT:
The Design and Technology BFA program focuses on new media storytelling and interaction technologies. Students explore how media drives social, political, and cultural change and solve real-world problems as well as propose new possibilites. Building on contemporary design disciplines, the program exposes students to emerging design and art practices such as data programming, computer graphics, animation, game design, motion graphics, physical computing, and interactive technologies.
Unique Opportunities
The Design and Technology program is a diverse community of independent thinkers; there is no such thing as a “typical” Design and Technology student. The working professionals who comprise the faculty bring real-world experience and cutting-edge skills to the classroom. Their industry connections help students secure top-notch internships at major local nonprofit and corporate firms, including MTV, Nickelodeon, R/GA, and Eyebeam.
Making Connections
The Design and Technology lab is all about community. It is where graduate and undergraduate students work, eat, play, collaborate, help, and inspire each other. These relationships often survive long past graduation, as students make their marks in fields as diverse as interactive media, film, television, motion graphics, animation, game design, product development, graphic design, advertising, and the fine arts.
For more information about the BFA Program in Design + Technology, including curriculum, faculty, and course details, please visit http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/bfa-design-technology/ .
ABOUT MFADT:
The MFA in Design and Technology explores the social and cultural dimensions of technological change.
DESIGN PROCESS AND PROJECT-BASED LEARNING
Today’s designer faces two fundamental challenges: the expanding influence of design within society, and the growing role of technology within design. As a terminal degree, the MFA in Design and Technology (MFA DT) provides a lively and dynamic environment for students to use design research, process, applied theory, and writing to address these challenges. Students push their experimentation beyond the visual: design is seen as a mechanism for developing strategies, knowledge organization, business structures, and social consciousness.
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION AND LEADERSHIP
From Boot Camp to the final Thesis Symposium, faculty members who are active design practitioners encourage students to pursue forward thinking, creative, commercial, research-based, educational, and art-based career paths. Areas of study include Interaction (mobile, games, web, and installation), Physical Computing (programming code and chip-based applications such as toys, fashion, media in architecture, and performance technology), 2D and 3D Animation, Motion Graphics, and Digital Filmmaking.
Through dynamic collaborations with industry partners, other universities, and not-for-profit organizations, students make award-wining design projects and have opportunities to exhibit at venues worldwide. As a result, MFA DT alumni are leaders in a variety of groundbreaking innovative enterprises.
For more information about the MFA Program in Design + Technology, including curriculum, faculty, and course details, please visit http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/mfa-design-technology/ .
