The World Design Studio is a collaboration between Faculty of Engineering at Ain Shams University in Egypt, the Landscape Architecture Program, School of Architecture at Clemson University in the United States, the Department of Architecture, and the Department of Landscape Architecture at Huazhong Agricultural University in China. The studio engages students worldwide to address globally important architectural, urban and environmental issues that enrich design education through cross-cultural, interdisciplinary collaboration.
The studio is open for enrolment on a semester by semester basis, to final senior year students  (applying either individually or in groups); currently enrolled in the specialized departments of Architecture Engineering (ARC) and Urban Planning (UPL), in addition to the interdisciplinary programs of Environmental Architecture and Urbanism (ENVR) and Landscape Architecture (LAAR).