African Design Centre

The African Design Centre is a two-year fellowship program to train and empower the creative leaders who will design a more equitable, just and sustainable Africa. The program, launched as a subsidiary in close collaboration with international nonprofit architecture firm MASS Design Group, will give fellows the training and hands-on experience required to execute social impact driven solutions to the continent’s most pressing challenges. The core of the program is an immersive design-build project, where fellows learn the ADC pedagogy that includes Community Engagement, Design, Construction, and Evaluation. This is paired with classroom-based curriculum and research in emerging issues such as urbanization, affordable housing, and climate change. This program is open to recent university graduates with a Bachelor’s Degree in a design-related field, such as Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urbanism, Engineering, or Industrial Design. The school is committed to recruiting the very best candidates, and a fellow’s ability to pay tuition is not a factor in admissions decisions. Scholarships and other financial aid is available to ensure every admitted fellow can attend regardless of background. Applications for the current fellowship class are currently closed, however please stay tuned for application information about next years class.