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Sustaining San Francisco

The city of San Francisco is a leader in the area of sustainability, representing the next wave of innovation. It is only fitting that the Academy of Art University add their voice to the sustainability mix through design-thinking and creativity.

This spring, select Academy alumni will mentor MFA students as they conceive projects around the theme of sustainability relevant to the greater San Francisco community. Students will be challenged to look beyond the obvious; to broadly address the theme of sustainability in new and innovative ways. At the end of the semester, the projects will be featured in an exhibition with a goal of executing the most compelling and manageable solutions.

The alumni support component has been developed to help these MFA students realize their ideas. Alumni have the ability to bring fresh perspective to the students’ work, to help them shape the project for real world execution. This semester, the participating departments include Fashion, Graphic Design, Industrial Design and Photography. Computer Arts New Media students are also contributing to the Design Ignites Change website. The program will continue in future semesters, expanding to all departments.

If you are interested in learning more, please email alumni@academyart.edu.

Sustaining San Francisco is an initiative of Design Ignites Change – a collaboration between Adobe Youth Voices and Worldstudio – which promotes and encourages talented college students across the country to use design thinking and innovation to create solutions to and messages for complex social problems.