What Is a Makerspace?

The Makerspace in the new Design and Innovation building at UCSD is a 10,000 square foot facility containing over a million dollars of tools and equipment that exists to empower students to design, build, and tinker. Open to all, students will have easy access to, and training for, everything from sewing machines to metal-cutting lasers. Immersed in a diverse community of fellow students, along with UCSD’s unparalleled wealth of staff, faculty, and community experts, students will be afforded an extraordinary opportunity to explore their field of interest, find their passion, and graduate with the practical problem-solving experience to have agency regardless of their future – as an entrepreneur or academic, artist or engineer.