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Apply to the Harvard GSD's Design Discovery Summer Programs!
Harvard GSD's Design Discovery summer programs help augment design thinking through making through summer exercises that build out a more extensive portfolio of design work in addition to the work addressed in our Harvard Undergraduate Architecture Studies track studios. These programs are directed by our very own Harvard Undergraduate Architecture Studies GSD Program Director, Megan Panzano. We've had a great success with design studies students enrolling in these summer programs to further their ideas through means of making - with more drawings, images and models explored as ways to advance a concept of how design can impact major issues in the world. The work produced in these summer programs helps build out a portfolio that could be applied toward fellowships, internships and graduate programs later.
Our programs are offered in two formats this summer that could be enrolled in and taken as modules (they don't overlap in content or timing). Applications to our Design Discovery summer options are due on April 17, 2023 - available at "apply now" button in links below. We encourage this group to explore these programs and apply to join the GSD over the summer!
Design Discovery Virtual (DDV) is a 3-week virtual academic program that engages a global audience of individuals 18 years old to mid-career professionals interested in an introduction to design, its media, and methods across the three disciplines of Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Planning + Design. U.S. and international citizens are invited to apply.
The program explores the potentials of design to address a series of relevant contemporary issues within the built environment. Program participants benefit from a cross-disciplinary lens on the collaborative development of design responses to weekly topics through visual communication with an emphasis on digital media for design drawing and modeling. Participants are also exposed to the wide range of perspectives about the built environment that this program's global audience offers. This program is taught by a diverse group of Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) faculty, masters, and doctoral degree program graduates and includes interaction with a broad network of design talent invited to serve as guest lecturers and critics for the program.
Successful participants receive a program certificate, student evaluation, and produce a draft portfolio of design work that can be shared with design program admission committees, potential design employers, collaborators, clients, or home school programs for course credit consideration.
Design Discovery (DD) is a 3-week in person academic program that takes place at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in Cambridge, MA. Participants enroll in either Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Planning + Design. The program explores the potentials of design to impact the built environment, with an emphasis on hands-on physical modeling, material capacities, fabrication, and assembly, in complement to the Design Discovery Virtual program’s digital media emphasis.
Successful participants receive a program certificate, student evaluation, and produce a draft portfolio of design work.
