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Join us for a 10 month, low-residency program providing both comprehensive understanding of the principles of experience design and introduction to an engaged and dynamic community.

 
 
 
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Applications for 2025 due September 30th, 2024!

Curious about EDCP 2025? Join one of our upcoming Info Sessions:

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You Will Learn

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  • Audience-Centered Design

  • Worldbuilding

  • Participatory and Interactive Narrative

  • Diagramming

  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration Strategies

  • Grants, Proposals & Budgets

  • Approaches to Sustainable Practice

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Experience Design:

 



a revolutionary way of designing focused on the experience of the audience. It has the power to transform any art or design practice that involves humans.


 

Develop Your Experience Design Portfolio.
Build Creative Community. 
Tap into your Purpose.

Schedule

Two Retreats. Weekly classes in small groups. One-on-one Mentorship. Career and Personal Transformation.

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10 months, Feb–Nov 2025
$11k tuition  
scholarships available  (see below)
10-15 students per cohort
10 hours per week
 
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Students will take a weekly course online and receive mentorship from Abraham Burickson and Ayden LeRoux. The program will be bookended by in-person weekend intensives, with an optional community gathering in the summer. The year culminates with an exhibition in New York City and students will leave the program with two completed portfolio projects.

 

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Retreat 1
Jan 31-Feb 2, 2025

Cragsmoor, New York


SESSION 1
FEBRUARY 4–MAY 13, 2025

Weekly Classes Online

Students will be sorted into one of two cohorts that meet the same day every week and are assigned upon acceptance. You may note on your application if you are unavailable for one of the slots. One cohort will meet Tuesdays 2-5 pm EST, the other cohort will meet Wednesdays from 12-3 EST (New York Time)


RESEARCH SESSION
JUNE–AUGUST

Lived Research Session

(self-directed, with biweekly accountability group meetings in June and July)


SESSION 2
SEPTEMBER–NOVEMBER

Weekly Classes Online

One cohort will meet Tuesdays 2-5 pm EST, the other cohort will meet Wednesdays from 12-3 EST (New York Time)


retreat 2: Public presentation and graduation
NOVEMBER 21-24, 2025

New York City

Final projects will be presented to an invited public in New York City. Certificates awarded.



 Tuition + Payment Plans

 

Full Tuition
$11,000 Total

Includes books and a materials stipend for the final portfolio project. Students are responsible for their own travel and accommodations for the weekend intensives. No transaction fees.

Installment Plan
$3,050 per Installment

Divide tuition into three payments throughout the program. $3,050 per installment (+$1,000 deposit due at acceptance). Includes transaction fee.

Monthly Payment Plan
$1,025/month

Divide tuition into ten payments of $1,025 per month (+$1,000 deposit due at acceptance). Includes transaction fee.

Financial Aid + Scholarships

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Thanks to a generous donor we are offering two full-tuition scholarships to BIPOC applicants. We are also proud to offer one half-tuition, need-based scholarship, and one half-tuition work study scholarship. All of these are extremely competitive and we encourage you to seek additional sources of funding. You will be able to indicate your interest in being considered for both forms of scholarship in your application. If you’d like to be considered for need-based assistance, there is a brief additional form for you to complete.


We happily write letters of support for all students who ask that are seeking funding from foundations, institutions, and their employers.

*Many countries in the EU offer sponsorship for arts related education programs. Applicants are encouraged to apply for arts funding if their country offers it. Students have received support from UK arts funding and the Canada Council for the Arts.
**Work for a company or institution that has funds for continuing your education or professional development? Odyssey Works partners with organizational leadership to support employees in this program. Numerous alumni who worked at places like Nike, IDEO, and McCann World Group, or at academic institutions, have received full or partial funding from their employers for our programs. Get the conversation started by sending your employer to this page today and feel free to contact us for further information. 
 

who we are

For more than twenty years — since before “experience design” was a popular term — Odyssey Works has been researching and innovating experiential practices. Committed to creating an “infinitely more affected audience”, we understand experience design to be a mode of practice rather than a technique, and have honed a vision for collaboration, experimentation, creative rigor, and empathy-centered making.

 
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With international acclaim  for our work, three books, dozens of lectures, and a history of pioneering pedagogy, the Experience Design Certificate Program is our invitation to reimagine the world together. 

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Praise

“The legacy of their work has been an undercurrent in the age of experiential theatre.... In the past twenty years, odds are, you have been touched by their methods. It is no understatement to say that things would not be the same if Odyssey Works did not exist.”

— No Proscenium
 

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