For nearly 40 years SWA has conducted a summer program to train focused groups of students in landscape architecture, planning and urban design.  Each summer, our students spend four weeks in studio focusing on a collective design problem enhanced with speakers and weekly critiques featuring distinguished design professionals, public officials, local stakeholders and residents.  For the first time in over a decade, Dallas will serve as the laboratory within which the students will explore, experiment, and invent.  The timing could not be more appropriate as Dallas sits at the precipice of a number of decisions tremendously influencing the structure and vibrancy of the city we and the next generation will call home.