Experience Design Certificate Program Immersive Event

Experience Design Certificate Program

A 10-month low-residency program that will transform your experience design practice

Available anywhere

Experience hosted by Odyssey Works

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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. YOU WILL LEARN: Audience-Centered Design Worldbuilding Participatory and Interactive Narrative Diagramming Interdisciplinary Collaboration Strategies Grants, Proposals & Budgets Approaches to Sustainable Practice Students will take a weekly course online and receive mentorship from Odyssey Works co-directors Abraham Burickson and Ayden LeRoux, as well as guest faculty and critics. The program is bookended by in-person weekend intensives, the first in rural upstate New York and the second in New York City. You will leave the program with two completed portfolio projects, one of which is derived from Lived Research during the summer months, which is developed into an experience offered to the public at a culminating exhibition in NYC in November.... Show More

Audience Role

Community is a central component of this program and all participants must engage in dialogue with their cohort. Community is a central component of this program and all participants must engage in dialogue with their cohort.

Content Advisories

  • No content advisories

  • 21 +

Interaction Advisories

  • No physical contact with performers

Mobility Advisories

  • No mobility advisories

  • Event is wheelchair accessible.

$1000.00

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Available Anytime

Applications for 2025 are due Sept 30th at midnight. Classes meet weekly on Zoom Tues 2-5 pm OR Weds 12-3 ...
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What you will need

Discord/Slack

Zoom

Delivered through videoconferencing software; downloading Zoom's native app is recommended.

Additional Instructions

There will be an in person retreat in Cragsmoor, NY in February, and a culminating presentation of work in New York City in November.

Odyssey Works

Hosting immersive events on EI since June, 2020

Imagine waking up to find yourself immersed in a performance that is all about you. Since 2001, Odyssey Works has been creating immersive, durational experiences for an audience of one. Our team is made up of artists in dozens of disciplines who study the life of one individual and use whatever means necessary to create intimate, meaningful performances that last days, weeks, or months, and occur not on a stage but interwoven with the life of our audience of one. The experiences are transformative; most of our participants change jobs, move, make new commitments to loved ones shortly after their Odysseys.... Show More