Design Discovery Youth (DDY) is a 3-week program that takes place at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in Cambridge, MA. The program engages an audience of Boston area high school students, rising sophomore to senior year in age, who are interested in learning about what design is, its media and methods, and the scales it involves.
The program explores how to translate participants’ varied and valuable observations of the world into the spatial and visual language of design. Students are taught by Harvard GSD faculty and masters degree program graduates in addition to interacting with a diverse community of Boston area design talent and agencies.
Participants receive a program certificate, student evaluation, and produce a draft portfolio of design work that can be shared with design programs or professionals in pursuit of additional forms of design education and internship experiences to follow.
Students will be exposed to drawing, modeling, and representation techniques associated with architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism, as well as graphic, industrial, and fine arts design. The program strives to foster design skills and put students on track for exploring these ideas at the collegiate level.
Participants explore the impact of line work in drawing, learn how to physically model their drawn designs, and how to use digital media to illustrate and express their ideas. A combination of group and one-on-one instruction helps each student develop their ability to bring creative ideas to life!
DDY is run and taught by advanced graduate students in the fields of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Urban Design from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD).
The GSD Design Discovery Youth program is free to those who qualify. Applicants must be from the Boston/Cambridge area.
