MICA Center for Social Design

We would love some help to finish the Bee Safe Art Crosswalk! Meet us at Johnston Square Elementary School if you have time to paint a flower or two. We will be painting from 10am to 4pm on April 10 and April 11.

Thank you to all the volunteers who made the Bee Safe Art Crosswalk a reality this past weekend! We could not have done this install without you all! We counted 100 helping hands - so impressed by the turnout. Hurray!

Calling all volunteers!

The Made You Look project is getting ready to install the Bee Safe Art Crosswalk together with Re-Build Johnston Square Neighborhood Organization. They will be painting outside the Johnston Square Elementary School on March 26 and March 27.

Visit bit.ly/BeeSafeSignUp if you are interested in helping them paint! 🥳

Save the date for the 2022 Social Design Exchange!

Monday, April 18, 2022
6 PM – 9 PM

Featuring: Social Design MA Students Ellie Bazurto, Matt Coles, Thomas Cudjoe, Dejia Danhi, Elizabeth Emmett, Rhea Gupta, Larissa Hawkins, Allyson Kim, Kennedy McDaniel, Dhvani Shah, Allison Tomlinson, Tianqiao Xing, and Hannah Young.

More details to come at https://2022.micagradshow.com/

Looking for a snowy weekend read to cozy up with? 📚☕️

Check out these hot-off-the-press articles by Center Co-Director Lee Davis, collaborator Bori Feher, and visiting faculty member Myra Margolin in the latest issues of Disegno, a design culture journal produced by MOME Budapest.

- Myra Margolin: Victor Margolin’s Early Years
- Lee Davis and Bori Fehér: Design for Life: Moholy-Nagy’s Holistic Blueprint for Social Design Pedagogy and Practice

https://disegno.mome.hu/lapszamok/disegno-2021-1-2/

Are you a Maryland Institute College of Art undergrad or grad student interested in breaking out of the MICA bubble and learning human-centered design?

Practice-Based Studio courses at the Center for Social Design bring MICA students from across disciplines together to work on a social challenge in Baltimore in collaboration with an outside partner. Past partners have included the Baltimore City Health Department, Maryland Department of Transportation, and Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and topics have ranged from access to fresh food to reimagining the HIV testing process.

Email [email protected] for more information about enrolling in a Spring 2022 practice-based studio course!