educational institution in Austin, Texas,
teaching Interaction Design and Social Entrepreneurship.
Austin Center for Design
Austin Center for Design exists to transform society through design and design education. This transformation occurs through the development of design knowledge directed towards all forms of social and humanitarian problems.
1 Year Course in Interaction Design & Social Entrepreneurship
We offer a one year course—held at nights and on weekends in Austin, Texas—that emphasizes creative problem solving in the context of social issues, like poverty and nutrition. Students learn about human behavior, humanizing technology, and business strategy. The program is ideal for designers, business/marketing professionals, artists, and technologists with several years of experience. We also encourage more established professionals who are looking to change the trajectory of their careers to apply.
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Explore our Resource Library
We've made available dozens of lectures, readings, and worksheets from our curriculum - for free!
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AC4D published a book called Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving. It's a handbook for becoming a social entrepreneur.
You can read it for free, online!
Meet Our Students
Anna Krachey
Anna Krachey is an artist and university lecturer. Originally from Boston, she came to Austin eight years ago for graduate school at UT and has no plans to leave. As an artist, her photographs investigate, through off kilter humor, the ways that the familiar can be flipped into the strange and unexpected. She believes that connecting with others is the most important thing in life. Teaching fulfills an important part of this equation for her because it allows to affect other people through an ... Keep Reading »
From Our Blog
True Story: The get to know you game for people you’ve known your whole life.
Thanks to everyone who has been following and helping with our AC4D project, True Story. We are so excited to share with you what we’ve created and what’s next for our product. Our Project: A Recap Over the past 9 months, Maryanne Lee and I have been researching, designing for, and testing solutions that can help families members communicate more openly. Specifically, while we were conducting qualitative research around the impact of aging on family relationships early in our project,…
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