The PhD in Environmental Design + Planning Program in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts has an explicit mission: to prepare students to become public intellectuals and transformative practitioners in shaping the environment at all scales—from the design of cities, buildings and landscapes, to interiors, products and graphics all the while placing emphases on sustainability, innovation, community building and contextual awareness.
Despite its breadth, the implicit mandate of the mission is possible for several reasons. First, the PhD Program is interdisciplinary and involves facets of all academic units—the School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture and the School of Design Innovation. Second, the PhD Program has access to a pool of experts from the Institute’s faculty as well as faculty throughout the university including, but not limited to, the Department of Applied Biological Sciences, the College of Nursing and Health Innovation and the School of Sustainability. Third, the PhD Program has access to some of the best facilities found in any college of its kind. Lastly, the PhD Program is evolving in one of the most progressive and transformative educational environments in the country, commonly referred to as the New American University.
In the end, however, it is our students and graduates who reflect the quality of the PhD Program. They are all succeeding. From the first day that they enter the program, our students begin to embed themselves in research and academic endeavors outside of the institute through active participation in lectures and presentations at various national and international workshops and conferences. As graduates of the program, they climb to the top of their careers pursuing academic paths and assuming leadership roles in professional planning and design practices, the corporate sector, the public sector and the nonprofit sector.
If your concern is more about what you want to do than rather what you want to be, then join us in the PhD in Environmental Design + Planning Program in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.
Jacques Giard, PhD
Director of PhD in Environmental Design + Planning Program
480.965.7007
design.phd@asu.edu
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