If You Build It 2013 IF YOU BUILD IT follows designer activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie County, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to help transform both their community and their lives Living on credit and grant money and fighting a change resistant school board, Pilloton and Miller lead their students through a year long, full scale design and build project that does much more than just teach basic construction skills it shows ten teenagers the power of design thinking to re invent not just their town but their own sense of whats possible