Design Gym Spring 2025 Opening

Welcoming a new Design Gym Spring 2025 Semester! Join us for the semester opening on Friday, April 11th from 6:00-9:00 PM, then stay for the Friday Night Life afterparty from 9:00- 11:00 PM.

This Design Gym semester, we're focused on building collectively, responding to the political moment, and . In this moment when so many of us are stiff with fear, rigid with rage, and locked into our positions, we at ds4si suggest considering something counterintuitive. When it feels like we can’t think and we can’t move, we suggest that “can’t think” and “can’t move” are in fact deeply connected. In this moment, instead of the binaries offered to us, we believe we need a range of motion. That range of motion—that movement that breaks a binary—can also help us rethink it. Instead of going harder, locking in, ramping up our righteousness, we need to explore the uncertainty, the not-knowing. The thirdness. The weird, the poetic, the perverse, the liminal.

Now is a moment to call on the ones who rigorously and joyously know that there are many ways to move a muscle, to take up space, to shape and stretch a thing, to feel and express a thing, to shift or bend a thing.

At the Opening, you will get to engage in creative activities, enjoy great food, and learn more about Expanding Our Range of Motion, our NEW latest social intervention, join a Design Team, and our collective-making class offerings this semester. And more...This is a FREE event open to everyone, please RSVP below.

The Design Gym is a new community infrastructure, a mashup, a place to work out new ideas, stretch the muscles of imagination, meet neighborhood artists and organizers, imagine and prototype new solutions, learn design techniques, and collectively rebuild our communities to be more just and vibrant. Come be in community with us, bring a friend or meet a new one!

Getting Here

Set your GPS to . That will take you to our front door.

(Do not use the building's official address, which is 600 Columbia Rd. There is no entrance on that road.)

Parking

A free municipal parking lot is across the street from 7 Ramsey St.

COVID-19 Precautions

We'll provide masks for everyone. If you think you've risked recent exposure and/or feel symptoms, we encourage you to stay home.

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