Design your Future Summer 2021 Summer Offerings
Design your Future High School Two Week Summer Camp - IN PERSON
Offered In Person! Center for Architectural Studies
July 18 - July 31 (Drop off - 12 p.m. on July 18, Pick up 12 p.m. on July 31)
Grades: Rising Junior/Senior Status, or 2021 High School Graduate
Director: Kate O'Connor, Instructor: Stephen Garrison, and two Teaching Assistants
Cost: $2,100, w/option to gain 3 hrs. of college credit for an additional fee.
The Design your Future program at Marywood University was established eight years ago to offer high school students a significant first experience in architectural education. The program offers students an opportunity to participate in the process of design and to develop the basic tools of imagination and expression. It emphasizes that architecture and interior architecture combine the practical concerns of building with the artistic freedom of design.
The studio problems attempt to integrate hand techniques to extend and reinforce the lessons of conceptual design exercises. Abstraction and synthesis exposes students to the unique blend of visual orientation, creative process, academic investigation and professional training that forms an architectural education. Students explore the ideas, methods, and issues of architecture and interior architecture with professors and local practicing professionals. The introduction of architecture at a circular level prior to college enhances the understanding of the profession and educates the young public about what architects do AND how they do it.
The program is taught by Professor Kate O’Connor and Professor Stephen Garrison, both Full-time faculty from the Marywood School of Architecture. There are also two upperclass students that serve as Teaching Assistants and as Resident Assistants in the dormitories.
To ensure the health, welfare and safety of the participants, this program will run in-person following CDC and PA Department of Education Guidelines.
Eligibility Requirements:
Students must be of rising junior or senior status or a 2021 high school graduate.
Program Topics:
Studio Instruction:
- Spatial Design
- Drafting
- Model Making
- Creative Problem Solving
Design Instruction:
- Freehand Drawing and Sketching
- Introduction to Adobe Suites
- Tonal Exercises
- Collage
Lectures:
- Design
- History + Theory
- Furniture
- Sustainability
- Regional Issues
- Professional Practice
Field Trips: `
Local Architecture and Interior Architecture Firms
Local Tour of Scranton
Structure of a Typical Day:
7-10am Breakfast
10-11am Media Instruction or Project Review
11 -12pm Industry or Professional Lecture
12 - 1pm Lunch
1 - 4pm Studio
4 - 6pm Dinner
7-11pm Studio Assignment + FUN Activity
Homework is assigned daily and students are expected to complete the work in studio. (The building is secured from
8pm-8am.) After dinner on the weekdays, there is an organized activity for the students to participate in.
Weekend Activities:
One day will be a Computer Lab with an introduction to Adobe Suites (Photoshop, Illustrator, INdesign). The other day will have an activity and a lesson.
Fun Field Trips: (Included in Program Cost)
Scranton Wilkes Barre Rail-Riders AAA Baseball Game
Full day at Camelbeach Water Park
Miscellaneous: (Including, but not limited to)
Van transportation, Admissions to Museums and Parks, Evening and Weekend Entertainment, Movies, T-Shirts and Snacks for Movies and Game Night
Final Review Event, Friday, July 18th
We will conclude with an exhibition of student work and complementary conversation with invited critics for friends and family to attend!
Design your Future High School Two Week Summer Camp - ONLINE
Offered : ONLINE - via Zoom
July 5 - July 16
Grades: Rising Junior/Senior Status or 2021 High School Graduate
Director: Kate O'Connor; Instructor: Michelle Pannone, plus two Teaching Assistants
Cost: $1,200, w/option to gain 3 hrs. of college credit for additional fee.
The Design your Future program at Marywood University was established eight years ago to offer high school students a significant first experience in architectural education. The program offers students an opportunity to participate in the process of design and to develop the basic tools of imagination and expression. It emphasizes that architecture and interior architecture combine the practical concerns of building with the artistic freedom of design.
Design exercises and lectures expose students to the unique blend of visual orientation, creative process, academic investigation and professional training that forms an architectural education. Students will explore the ideas, methods, and current issues of architecture and interior architecture with top professors and practicing professionals in their field. The introduction of architecture at a curricular level prior to college enhances the understanding of the profession and educates the young public about what designers do AND how they do it.
This is an academically rigorous, college-level program. Students are expected to complete nightly homework assignments and actively participate in group projects. Students are expected to attend all synchronous classes every day,have their cameras on, arrive on time, and meet all academic obligations.
Eligibility Requirements:
Students must be of rising junior or senior status or a 2021 high school graduate.
Program Topics:
Spatial Design Drafting
Model Making Creative Problem Solving
Freehand Drawing Sketching
Digital Programs Tonal Exercises
Collage Basic Photography
Furniture Professional Practice
Theory Sustainability
Regional Issues History
Program Guests:
In an effort to connect students with a variety of relevant subjects occurring in Interior Architecture and Architecture, leading Professionals from across the country AND England will speak with students daily about their specialties.
James Eckler- Director, School of Architecture - Marywood University
Kris Callori, RA, LEED - Professor, UNM, Verdacity, Albuquerque
Stephen Garrison - Professor, Marywood University
Lizz Andrzejewski - PHd Candidate, Penn State
Michelle Pannone - Professor, Marywood University
Maggie McManus, RA - Professor, SCAD - Savannah
Joshua Berman, Interior Architect - Professor, Marywood University
Habeeb Muhammad, Bolin Cyweski Jackson - Philadelphia Andy Cho, RA LEED, Hastings Architecture - Nashville
Katrina Conners, AIA, Fifteen - Philadelphia
Victoria Farrow - Professor, University of Birmingham, England
Structure of a Typical Day: Tentative Schedule
Synchronous Classes MTWRF, 10:30am – 1:00pm EST.: Students must report to their virtual class via videoconferencing. Synchronous sessions will include drawing and model making demonstrations, lectures, digital design software tutorials, reading discussions, discussions, student presentations, and student design project evaluations with guest critics.
Synchronous Studio LAB SundayMTWR, 7:00pm – 10pm EST.: Teaching Assistants will assist students with daily design assignments in a LAB format and will host an organized (FUN!) activity for the students to participate each evening.
Virtual Final Review Event, Friday, July 16th
We will conclude with a virtual exhibition of student work and complementary conversation with invited critics for friends and family to attend!
Design your Future DAY Camp
Offered: In Person Center for Architectural Studies
July 19 - July 23 (9 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
Grades: Rising 8th, 9th and 10th grade students
Director: Kate O'Connor
Cost: $450.00
The Design your Future Day Camp offers students a significant first experience in architectural, interior architecture and general design ideations. In this one-week day camp, students will engage in the process of design and develop the basic tools of imagination and expression.
From interior objects to urban environments, this inquiry informs a disciplined practice as the means by which students engage the world at a range of scales with conceptual and formal clarity, disciplinary consciousness, social agency, and material speculation. This practice conditions the Architecture and Interior Architecture and design programs through projects that seek to uncover broad overlaps, points of transfer, common values, and shared skill-sets between and among the two disciplines.
