Becauseisms: 2023 Design M.F.A. Exhibition

Becauseisms 2023 Design MFA Senior Exhibition

About Becauseisms

We are a group of multi-disciplinary, multi-generational designers from diverse backgrounds. Becauseisms expresses emotional, societal, and personal provocations. The work is a reflection of our optimism and intention through design. We design because: clothing creates space for healing, home manifests in many ways, design can do harm, objects create connection, games drive rehabilitation, and knowledge empowers change. The work captures each of our "whys" with the response of because ___________.

Meet the Designers

Meet current and past cohorts of M.F.A. students boldly tackling the challenges of today to design a better future in the M.F.A. Student Directory.

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Project Details

Designers

Dominique Duff – "Game Changing Adaptability"

Rosana Duran Garibi – "Objects of Empathy"

Roya Khosravi – "Reimagining Heritage"

Maria Vidal Meinert – "Garments as Healing Spaces"

Libby Riddell – "Harm by Design"

Lucy Tomforde – "Stuff"

Exhibit Installations

Image of Objects of Empathy and Harm by Design installations at Becauseisms MFA thesis exhibition in 2023
Image of Harm by Design installation at Becauseisms MFA thesis exhibition in 2023
Image of Reimagining Heritage and Game Changing Adaptability installations at Becauseisms MFA thesis exhibition in 2023
Image of Stuff installation at Becauseisms MFA thesis exhibition in 2023
Image of Garments as Healing Spaces and Reimagining Heritage installations at Becauseisms MFA thesis exhibition in 2023
Image of Stuff and Harm by Design and Objects of Empathy installations at Becauseisms MFA thesis exhibition in 2023

Opening Night

Graduate Program faculty Kelcey Gray standing in front of the Becauseisms logo and exhibition description
Two people laughing as they observe MFA design 2023 exhibit Garments as Healing Spaces at The University of Texas at Austin
Photo of outside courtyard during MFA thesis exhibition reception
Becauseisms attendees seen in the reflection of a mirror interacting with Objects of Empathy installation
Two Becauseisms attendees interacting with Reimagining Heritage installation
Three Becauseisms attendees taking program guides from a shelf on the wall
A Becauseisms attendee interacting with Stuff installation by listening through headphones
Graduate program faculty Kelcey Gray and Tamie Glass taking Becauseisms merch from a table
A Becauseisms attendee interacting with Game Changing Adaptability installation

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