Host a camp
Bring the Hip Hop
Architecture Camp
to your city.
42 cities
since 2016
We turn hip hop into architecture, and give young people a new way to see themselves in design, their communities, and the built environment.
The experience
More than a camp.
Architecture you can
see. Hear. Feel.
The Hip Hop Architecture Camp uses the culture young people already know to introduce them to architecture, design, and the power they have to shape the places around them.
Through a culturally relevant, hands-on design experience, students move from ideas and storytelling to making, designing, presenting, and seeing themselves as part of the future of the design profession.
Built around your community
Three ways to bring the experience
to your community.
Every engagement is shaped around the community hosting it. Choose the experience that best fits your goals, and we’ll work with you to develop the right scope for your students, partners, and city.
Flagship experience
The four-day camp
The full Hip Hop Architecture Camp experience
Four days of culturally relevant, hands-on design education connecting architecture, music, storytelling, and presentation.
- 30–50 students
- Grades 7–11
- Four days
Students work alongside design and creative professionals, develop their own ideas, use their voice as a design tool, and present their work to families and the community.
Host the four-day camp →Hip Hop By Design workshop
A high-energy, one-day design experience
A concentrated introduction to architecture and design through hip hop culture, hands-on making, collaboration, and creative exploration.
- One day
- Custom group size
- Multiple design disciplines
Ideal for conferences, schools, universities, firms, cultural institutions, and community events.
Explore a workshop →Camp license
Bring the camp to your community, and build local capacity
Organizations can license the Hip Hop Architecture Camp curriculum and operating model and prepare their own team to deliver the experience locally.
- Annual license
- Certified local facilitators
- Curriculum + operating system
Designed for organizations interested in building an ongoing architecture and design program in their own community.
Ask about licensing →How hosting works
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Tell us about your community
Share your location, goals, audience, timeline, and what you hope the camp can accomplish.
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We shape the experience
Our team works with you to develop the program scope, schedule, partnership structure, and host investment.
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We bring the camp to life
Hip hop, architecture, design, young people, professionals, and community come together in one culturally relevant design experience.
The model
A shared
investment in access.
Host organizations contribute toward the cost of delivering each Hip Hop Architecture Camp experience. Every engagement is customized based on its location, duration, enrollment, and program scope.
As a nonprofit organization, Hip Hop By Design also relies on philanthropic support to expand access beyond individual camp engagements, helping us provide scholarships, create paid internship opportunities, support students, grow into new communities, and bring design education to young people regardless of their community’s ability to fully fund a program.
Help us bring the experience to their community.
Help us expand who gets access to it, and how far that impact can reach.
Bring the camp to your community.
Tell us where you are, who you want to reach, and what you hope to make possible. We’ll take it from there.
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