Empowering Future Creators
Designed Awareness, born in 2016 from a collaboration between TRUE Skool,
Abacus Architects, and Reginald Baylor Studios/Next Museum, to dream up the Future TRUE Skool Campus! Designed Awareness connects youth with their communities through architecture, education, and hands-on creative experiences.
Students are working directly on projects that matter. They learn from architecture and urban planning professionals, engage in creative problem-solving, and explore how design thinking transforms spaces and lives. Day-to-day, or during special collaborative workshops and development sessions they might visit exhibitions, make sketches, or develop product or project models.
We explore products , place and creative problem solving!


TRUE Skool is developing an amazing pipeline into Architecture, Design + the Built/Unbuilt Environment for youth and young adults!
Our Past Partners include: Abacus Architects , NOMAS , UWM School of Architecture, AIAS, Laten Designs ( Chicago ) , True Star Foundation ( Chicago ) , Haywood Development Group, Forti, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Groundwork Milwaukee and many more!