The School for Designing a Society & The Gesundheit Institute

Recent 2014 Programs

The Public Actor: Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Mar 22 | New York, NY

In this intensive workshop, we probe the idea that the way a person presents herself in everyday life can be looked at as a performance of the public actor. See here for more details.

Performance Facing Hybrid Social Problems

Feb 3 – May 5 | Urbana, Illinois

This spring 2014, the School for Designing a Society invites you to a continuing work session, building on the collaborative composition project from the fall. *Still Ongoing* Newcomers are welcome to the project. See here for more details.

John M. Stang Medical Elective: Humanistic Medicine (Construct Your Humanism)

Apr 2 – 30 | Hillsboro, WV

This four-week elective provided braided learning for the teaching of humanism in medicine, using both presentational and project-based approaches. See here for more details.

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apply no particular educational background is required; the prerequisite is the desire to participate in designing a society.

upcoming read about our upcoming programs and workshops for the year.

touring read about our touring and performance schedules for the year.

courses listed both alphabetically and by topic & a number of interdisciplinary programs cross boundaries between disciplines.

what happens? designing a society is a project that intersects the formats of classroom, commune, performance ensemble, activist group.