Demystifying Design Professions

In conjunction with our Admissions Open House, the PennDesign organization DiverseDesign is holding our tenth annual “Demystifying Design Professions: Perspectives on Diversity” event on Sunday, November 1. The goal of this event is to expose prospective graduate students to a range of design professions to clarify the graduate school process, and to offer networking opportunities with current graduate students. Special emphasis this year will be on engaging the community. For more information and to pre-register, go here.

Here is the schedule:

• 10:00-10:30 - Registration
• 10:30-10:45 - Opening remarks
• 10:45-11:30 - Keynote speech
• 11:30-12:30 - Session 1 (Social Impact Project presentations)
• 12:30-1:30 - Lunch
• 1:30-2:30 - Session 2 (Charrette exercise)
• 2:30-3:30 - Session 3 (conversation with alumni and professors panel) and brief closing remarks