Design Like a Girl Program

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The Design Like a Girl Mentor Program was founded in 2016 in Washington DC to introduce local middle school girls to architecture and related professions. Girls ages 11-14 are paired with female mentors from the architecture, construction, and engineering fields to learn first-hand about these exciting careers from professional women. By engaging more girls across the city it is the goal of the program to open doors that might eventually lead to greater gender equality in the architectural, and other STEM professions.

DLAG consists of four full-day workshops during the academic year. Each workshop has a theme and includes a field trip, a design project with drawing and model building and concludes with a presentation by each girl of her design. 

The first workshop of the series focuses on the Fundamentals of Architecture where the girls learn about tools of the architectural trade, architectural vocabulary, and basic design concepts. The following three workshops explore different areas of the design professions. Workshops have included the following themes:

  • Construction & Engineering Landscape Architecture
  • Theater Set Design Designing Spaces for Space
  • Memorials & Sacred Spaces Design for Wellbeing
  • Interior Architecture Adaptive Reuse
  • Sustainable and Biophilic Design

Submit application to be a part of Design Like a Girl HERE. 

 

This program is supported by a generous grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
   

 

Location:

District Architecture Center

421 7th Street NW

Washington, D.C. 20004

 

Questions? Contact Heidi Sohng

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