Career Paths

Our alumni advance work that questions convention and engages critically with the world. The program’s approach encourages experimental methods that cross fields. We prepare graduates to respond with agility and imagination to complex changing conditions. This orientation cultivates practices that are intellectually rigorous, ethically grounded, and socially engaged.

Graduates carry these capacities into a wide range of domains, including: 

• civic and humanitarian initiatives
• community-based projects
• artistic and curatorial practice
• design research
• health and care systems
• public policy
• education
• consulting
• experimental media.

Guided by inquiry, responsibility, and creativity, our alumni:

• shape global efforts at organizations such as UNICEF, the International Rescue Committee, and Women’s World Banking
• advance research and health initiatives at institutions like Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Center for Complexity at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
• innovate at design and technology firms including IBM, Google, Meta, Verizon, and IDEO
• pursue doctoral study and teaching at leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute of Technology, the Royal College of Art (RCA), Aalto University, and RMIT University

In each context, alumni adapt their methods to the conditions they encounter. They reimagine professional and creative practices to address the urgent conditions of our time.

This section is updated periodically to highlight the evolving contributions of our alumni.