This two-week intensive combines fundamental carpentry training with hands-on experience in consensus-based design. Students work collaboratively to design and build a project for a community or nonprofit client—developing the program, working within a budget, and finalizing the design in just three days. Once approved, the class moves to the job site to bring the design to life.

Throughout the course, students engage in the full design/build feedback loop—gaining practical skills, adapting plans in real time, and sharpening their creative problem-solving abilities.