The Daniels Faculty’s Design Research Internship Program (DRIP) invites local practitioners in architecture, landscape architecture and design to participate in a unique academic internship that partners upper-year Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies (BAAS) students with design professionals.

The experiential learning initiative, launched by Associate Professor Pina Petricone in 2021, is expanding its roster of participating firms and opening a call for practitioners for the first time.

Any Toronto-area firms interested in participating in DRIP this coming summer should contact p.petricone@daniels.utoronto.ca by February 16, 2024. 

Now in its third year, the LEAF-funded program bridges academic knowledge with professional practice. DRIP offers undergraduate students the opportunity to apply critical research and visual communication skills to focused work within a local firm and in turn exposes the rich community of design practitioners to the uniquely skilled students at U of T. 

Key to the DRIP model is the definition of design research projects by host firms in advance of the internship, as well as a weekly seminar delivered by Petricone that both presents models of design research to students and allows interns to position their work in a larger disciplinary context.

Information for interested students will be available in March 2024. 

Banner image: Collage of student work from the DRIP pilot project in 2021 at Gianonne Petricone Architects.