2013 Public Interest Design summer program: UT Austin School of Architecture

The University of Texas at Austin Center for Sustainable Development is pleased to announce its third installment of the award-winning Public Interest Design Summer Program. The primary aim of the Public Interest Design Program is to connect students from a myriad of disciplines interested in the relationship between public service and the built environment to projects that address real community needs. Through rigorous exploration of how each of these terms affects design, the program challenges students to develop theoretical and practical skills to respond to the ethical complications of engaging the public and its spaces. On top of the community-oriented design/build, the service-oriented seminar course, and the externship opportunities to the San-Francisco non-profit Public Architecture, this summer there will be a new addition to the program: the Design Futures student leadership summit! The UTPID program is selective and open to advanced architecture, planning, design, and other disciplines from universities in the United States and abroad. Thirty students will be admitted to the program and will be eligible for a variety of academic course credit. Interested students are encouraged to apply! The application deadline is March 1, 2013. For more information, please visit: http://soa.utexas.edu/csd/PID/