Design Bloc professor speaks with students around a table after a workshop.

Design Bloc

Design Bloc

Georgia Tech's students, staff, faculty, and entrepreneurs excel at tackling technically complex problems. As part of that community, Design Bloc believes problem-solvers benefit from turning a critical eye to their problem statement. In any challenge, we look for the most benefit to all stakeholders.

Design Bloc teaches world-class problem solvers how to be thoughtful problem framers. These leaders reassess challenges, find alternate definitions to problems, and shift their perspective to identify diverse solutions inclusive of multiple user needs.

Take a workshop, join a class, or collaborate with us. We'll help you reframe your problem at Design Bloc. 

Who We Are What We Teach

Currently Recruiting a Cohort for the 2026–27 Academic Year

The Design Bloc LLC is a new Living Learning Community looking for a 2026-2027 academic year cohort! We are looking for incoming first year students, who have a passion for the intersection of the arts, design and technology! The Design Bloc LLC will be located in the Woodruff Dormitory, with the adjoining CREATE-X/Design Bloc space as our home base.

Students will have the opportunity to interact with the arts and design community around them and engage with industries that combine creativity, expression, and technology. Even if you don't consider yourself "artistic" or "creative" but like to see how technology and culture communicate, this LLC is for you. For example, interested in how a real-time crowd-sourced language model might inform an improvisational script-writing generator for an improv theater troupe? How about working with renowned designers and architects, whose work has been featured in national galleries? Interactive dance suits that use the movement of the body to signal lighting and sound effects in a dance performance? Computer science technical specialists who help program algorithms for the movie industry (animation or special effects)? This program will amplify students' empathy and understanding of context through experiential learning (learning by doing) and iterative making with artists, designers and technologists alike.

To learn more about Living Learning Communities, visit here. To apply for Design Bloc, apply through your Admissions Portal and visit the Living Learning Communities checklist item.

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Student works off of two screens to turn a digital photo into a digital sketch in the Design Bloc space.

Join a Class

Dive outside the core curriculum with a project-based class from Design Bloc. These courses invite students from all backgrounds to collaborate through design in subjects ranging from bio-inspired art to sustainable entrepreneurship. 

Classes Offered
Hands surround a table full of post-it notes and sketches during a brainstorming session.

Take a Workshop

Gain hands-on experience with a set of tools and techniques that will help you solve your own open-ended problems. Find an upcoming event hosted on campus, or reach out to us to develop an on-site workshop series tailored to your team. 

Workshops Offered
Hands mold dough into prototype utensil during a Design Bloc workshop on empathy for the user.

Recent Collaborations

Faculty in the Excel Certificate Program partnered with Design Bloc to improve students’ experience and outcomes by practicing key design behaviors like empathetic design.

Over a series of workshops, faculty learned and implemented design tools in the field of education. The outcome was a framework for identifying and fulfilling the needs of students with developmental disabilities. 

See How It Worked

Reach Out to Us

Whether you're a student looking to join our team, or an organization seeking to introduce your workforce to design-thinking techniques, we want to hear from you. Connect with us!   

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