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Join us for a 10 month, low-residency program providing both comprehensive understanding of the principles of experience design and introduction to an engaged and dynamic community.
Applications for our 2024 cohort are now closed
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You Will Learn
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Audience-Centered Design
Worldbuilding
Participatory and Interactive Narrative
Diagramming
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Strategies
Grants, Proposals & Budgets
Approaches to Sustainable Practice
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Experience Design:
a revolutionary way of designing focused on the experience of the audience. It has the power to transform any art or design practice that involves humans.
Develop Your Experience Design Portfolio.
Build Creative Community.
Tap into your Purpose.
Schedule
Two Retreats. Weekly classes in small groups. One-on-one Mentorship. Career and Personal Transformation.
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10 months, Feb–Nov 2024$11k tuition
scholarships available (see below)10-15 students per cohort10 hours per week
Students will take a weekly course online and receive mentorship from Abraham Burickson and Ayden LeRoux. The program will be bookended by in-person weekend intensives, the first in Baltimore and the second in New York City. There is also an optional community gathering in the summer. Students will leave the program with two completed portfolio projects.
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Retreat 1
Feb 2-4, 2024
Baltimore
SESSION 1
FEBRUARY 6–MAY 14 2024
Weekly Classes Online
Students will be sorted into one of two cohorts that meet the same day every week and are assigned upon acceptance. You may note on your application if you are unavailable for one of the slots. One cohort will meet Tuesdays 2-5 pm EST, the other cohort will meet Wednesdays from 12-3 EST (New York Time)
RESEARCH SESSION
JUNE–AUGUST
Lived Research Session
(self-directed, with weekly accountability group meetings in June and July)
SESSION 2
SEPTEMBER–NOVEMBER
Weekly Classes Online
One cohort will meet Tuesdays 2-5 pm EST, the other cohort will meet Wednesdays from 12-3 EST (New York Time)
retreat 2: Public presentation and graduation
NOVEMBER 22-25, 2024
New York City
Final projects will be presented to an invited public in New York City. Certificates awarded.
Tuition + Payment Plans
Full Tuition
$11,000 Total
Includes books and a materials stipend for the final portfolio project. Students are responsible for their own travel and accommodations for the weekend intensives. No transaction fees.
Installment Plan
$3,050 per Installment
Divide tuition into three payments throughout the program. $3,050 per installment (+$1,000 deposit due at acceptance). Includes transaction fee.
Monthly Payment Plan
$1,025/month
Divide tuition into ten payments of $1,025 per month (+$1,000 deposit due at acceptance). Includes transaction fee.
Financial Aid + Scholarships
Thanks to a generous donor we are offering two full-tuition scholarships to BIPOC applicants. We are also proud to offer one half-tuition, need-based scholarship, and one half-tuition work study scholarship. All of these are extremely competitive and we encourage you to seek additional sources of funding. You will be able to indicate your interest in being considered for both forms of scholarship in your application. If you’d like to be considered for need-based assistance, there is a brief additional form for you to complete.
We happily write letters of support for all students who ask that are seeking funding from foundations, institutions, and their employers.
*Many countries in the EU offer sponsorship for arts related education programs. Applicants in the UK are encouraged to apply for UK arts funding. Several Canadian applicants have received support from the Canada Council for the Arts.**Work for a company or institution that has funds for continuing your education or professional development? Odyssey Works partners with organizational leadership to support employees in this program. Numerous alumni who worked at places like Nike, IDEO, and McCann World Group, or at academic institutions, have received full or partial funding from their employers for our programs. Get the conversation started by sending your employer to this page today and feel free to contact us for further information. who we are
For more than twenty years — since before “experience design” was a popular term — Odyssey Works has been researching and innovating experiential practices. Committed to creating an “infinitely more affected audience”, we understand experience design to be a mode of practice rather than a technique, and have honed a vision for collaboration, experimentation, creative rigor, and empathy-centered making.
With international acclaim for our work, two books, dozens of lectures, and a history of pioneering pedagogy, the Experience Design Certificate Program is our invitation to reimagine the world together. 
Praise
“The legacy of their work has been an undercurrent in the age of experiential theatre.... In the past twenty years, odds are, you have been touched by their methods. It is no understatement to say that things would not be the same if Odyssey Works did not exist.”
— No Proscenium
