Upcoming Sessions
We offer sessions in the Fall, Spring, and Summer. Apply now!
What Happens at this School?
Participants are asked to put their desires into words and their words into actions in design projects. Seminars and workshops meet regularly.
Designing a Society is a project that intersects the formats of classroom, collective, performance ensemble, activist group. Designing a Society requires classrooms to be places of solidarity among students, so that friction, conflict, and uncertainty can flourish and be distinguished from contexts of violence, confusion, and conformity; Designing a Society requires communal living to be intellectual, so that being an individual is valued and distinct from being individualistic; is a project that requires performance ensembles to have the experience of coordinating with one another rather than competing; is a project that asks activists to protest old forms of protest, so that messages and methods of contemporary relevance can be created.
Who is invited?
Since we all live with the consequences of the current design of society, everyone is invited to participate in designing a different one. No particular educational background is required; the prerequisite is the desire to participate in designing a society. Apply here.
Courses
In addition to participating in the Core Curriculum of the school, students will be invited to choose their course of study and action from the following:
Composition | Social Change | Language | Performance | Cybernetics
Faculty
Courses at the School for Designing a Society will be taught by faculty of the School for Designing a Society, by visiting faculty from Indiana East University, by members of OddMusic-UC, by members of the Champaign-Urbana community…Read more
Tuition Fees
Spring Semester 2012: $3200 for 3 months, including dormitory room. Sliding scale available. We turn no one away for lack of funds.
Scholarship & Tuition Reductions
To request financial assistance, please indicate your situation on the application form or in the telephone interview.
Room & Board
Spring semester of the School for Designing a Society is in Urbana, Illinois. We will arrange modest rooming for participants, with orientation on living in community.