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The Design Center will offer open studio hours in the fall semester. In addition, Design Center staff will offer in-person programming, safety trainings, and virtual consultations. Center access is subject to change with directives from the college, so please check our calendar and website frequently for updates. Email designcenter@barnard.edu with questions for design-related support and info about our summer programming. More details here.

Design Center

Welcome

to the Design Center at Barnard College! We’re an inclusive makerspace that offers weekly tool trainings, in-depth project workshops, and interdisciplinary studio space for makers across the Barnard and Columbia campuses. 

Course Support

Find out more about requesting course-support from the Design Center.

Made at the Design Center

Visit our project gallery to get a sense for all the fantastic things people have created!

Project Gallery

Upcoming Workshops

News

City Parks Become Living Labs with STEAM in the City

A yearlong partnership with local teachers began last July with a week of workshops focused on STEAM curricula.

September 15, 2021

New-to-Us Zines: October 23, 2020

This week we added zines about queer Scottish feminists and the Black Lives Matter movement, archival research on queer addicts, political history of needlecraft, anxiety and depression exacerbated by quarantine, social distancing, teenage girl art and activism, and Ramadan food and activities.

October 23, 2020

@barnlib July 2020

From our sweaty homes, where we wish we were in the MLC complaining that the AC is too cold, welcome to the July 2020 issue of @barnlib.  

July 2, 2020