Alternative Design Education: The Yestermorrow Design/Build School (Core77)
If you want to receive a formal design education, the obvious choices are to
enroll in a four-year undergrad program or a two- to three-year graduate
program. But there is an alternative, at least for those of you living in the
American Northeast: The Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Warren, Vermont.
The nonprofit school teaches certificate courses, workshops, and tutorials in
both design and construction ranging from one day to a full semester in
length, with courses of multi-week lengths in between. In addition to
traditional woodworking and furniture building, students can also pursue
courses in sustainable building, energy efficiency and ecosystems. And
Yestermorrow’s backbone of design/build courses are hands-on, striving to
“demystify the worlds of architecture and carpentry by putting sketching tools
and hammers in hand.”
That hands-on approach, and the clear marriage between design and craft, is
built into the school’s ethos:
> Our curriculum is specifically designed to demystify the designing and
building processes using hands-on, experiential learning to teach students the
art and wisdom of good design and the skill and savvy of enduring
craftsmanship as a single, integrated process.
“If there is a descendent of the Bauhaus today, it might be the Yestermorrow
Design/Build School,” …
VT Woodworking School Student Projects / July
