Brown Design Workshop, located in Barus and Holley, is a student-run maker space open to all Brown and RISD students, as well as Providence residents. The space is run by full-time engineering staff, as well as student monitors and managers who lead all of its workshops.
“We welcome everyone and really want to build a community of makers,” said Angela Baek ’24, a monitor at the BDW.
While “the Brown Design Workshop is used a lot by particularly engineering, visual art and architecture students at Brown,” the BDW is working to “publicize to everyone who wants to build,” said BDW Monitor Arjun Khurana ’25.
The BDW runs skill-based workshops for students, which are offered on a first-come first-serve basis with no registration required. According to Baek, workshops range “from more standard ones like sewing and woodworking…
