This Fall, faculty members Herman D'Hooge and Laura O'Quinn led students in an innovative course called "Design for the Long Now". This course is about designing solutions to complex societal or environment problems such as social injustice, climate change, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, poverty, intra- or inter-generational inequity requires taking the long view.

Join the MFA in Collaborative Design and the MA in Design Systems for a conversation with design researcher Lisa Boumstein-Smalley.

Students from the Cultural Entrepreneurship course will be presenting their final projects at HatchLab PDX on Tuesday, December 18th from 7-9pm.

For the first Collaborative Design/Design Systems workshop of the year, faculty member Roel Uleners led our cohort of first year students through a rigorous Design Sprint around a central topic, selected by the group on the first day.

For the month of September my studio overlooked the ocean. Rainbows, boats of all kinds, wind combing over waves that shook our old coast guard building for days, slanted sunsets, my muraled neighborhood…

In October, founding MFA Collaborative Design faculty member Howard Silverman will be presenting at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium in Turin, Italy. Howard will present the work he co-authored with MFA CD alum Crystal Rome in "Distinctions and Analogies: Mapping Social System Identity".

"Since joining the PNCA CD program as a founding faculty member, I've been examining the intersections of systems + design -- and learning a lot from working with students." - Howard Silverman

Wednesday, July 18, 2018, BridgeLab
6:30 pm - informal networking

7:00pm - presentation

AI has become a part of our everyday lives and impacts nearly everything we do - how we get our news, how we get from point a to point b, or how we cure diseases. What special challenges does AI present to UX designers and researchers? What specific and unique role do we play? And are we falling down on the job?

Last Public Viewing of 2018 Collaborative Design Capstone Projects Thursday 7 June, 5-7pm.

Joined by faculty, alums and colleagues, first year students presented their 'design ecosystems' on 7 May.

Getting out of the "Portland Bubble" to look at the other 95% of Oregon.

Join us November 1, 2017 for Internet Health (Or How Convenience Broke Privacy): A Conversation with Bradley Cohen.

An evening with Chuck Collins, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, and Rob Dietz, Program Director of the Post Carbon Institute.

We are hosting a screening of Director Daniela Repas’ short film Mnemonics with a panel to follow.

Our April 19, 2017 Twilight Talk high IQ happy hour features Daryl L Jones.

Please join the MFA in Collaborative Design program on April 12 as we continue our Twilight Talks series with special guests Dan Wieden and Tricia Snell.

Our next Twilight Talk features Susan Bragdon on April 5, 2107.

Our next guest for Twilight Talks is Darcy Winslow, the Managing Partner of the Academy for Systemic Change on March 22, 2017.

Join us for our new Twilight Talk with Herman D'Hooge on March 15, 2017.

Rob Justus of Home First Development is our next Twilight Talks guest March 8, 2107.

Join us for the next weekly installment of Twilight Talks with civic entrepreneur and citizen journalist Cameron Whitten.

Our next weekly Twilight Talk is February 22 with Khozein, managing partner of SecondMuse.

Join the MFA in Collaborative Design program as we continue our Twilight Talks series with guest Tsilli Pines.

Our February 1 Twilight Talk guest is Greg Block of Sustainable Northwest

Please join the MFA in Collaborative Design program as we kick off our Twilight Talks series with guest Scott Donnell.

Please join the MFA in Collaborative Design program on January 18 from 5 to 6pm as we kick off our Twilight Talks series with guest Rebecca Gates.