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View fullsize This year, DCD plans to DOUBLE our free after school programming, helping more teens tap into their creative power and make community change happen. If you believe in our work, please give today and help us grow! A gift of just $10 a month supports
View fullsize Please consider supporting DCD in your year-end giving! Your gift will help us expand the reach of our free programs in our newly renovated facility in 2025. With your support, DCD empowers teens and adults to transform public spaces while developing
View fullsize Here's an update on our MET interns' exciting venture into light design! In the past few sessions, our young designers explored different lamps by observing, researching, drawing, and even creating a simple lamp of their own. As always, stay tuned
View fullsize Check out our newly renovated Community Design Studio on this beautiful day! We are all moved in, and loving this new space. Come see it in person and learn more about our work at our Open House this afternoon!! We'll have hands-on activities and lig
View fullsize A visit from our newly re-elected Congressman Gabe Amo brightened the DCD studios last week! Congressman Amo toured our newly renovated building, brainstormed with our DownCity Discovery middle schoolers, and shared a special commendation in honor o
View fullsize Exciting news!! After nearly two years of construction, DownCity Design's newly renovated Community Design Studio is ready to share with our community. This new space will allow us to expand our free design education programming, host community event
View fullsize In true autumnal spirit, our MET interns took some time on Halloween to carve out some pumpkins! This fun exercise also introduced our students to the concepts of lamp design and light distribution, which they will continue to explore this week. As
View fullsize The entry to DownCity Design's new Community Design Studio just got way more welcoming, thanks to a custom mural by the incredibly talented Rebecca Volynsky @rvolcreative! It was such a privilege to see Rebecca's creative process firsthand, she is a
View fullsize Do you want to learn how to make robots? Join DownCity Design’s new Robotics Club for high schoolers! Learn how to think like engineers and design + build + code robots to compete in FIRST Tech Challenge competitions. Meet new people and learn
View fullsize Registration for DownCity Discovery, our FREE design program for middle schoolers, is now open!⁠ Design, experiment and dream up new ideas while learning about the process that designers and inventors use to solve problems and make the world a bette
View fullsize Registration is now open for DownCity Designers: Design + Build Studio!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ RI High School Students... Are you interested in architecture and design? Are you looking for a FREE afterschool program to join? Join us this fall to learn about architectu
View fullsize DownCity Design is excited to participate in Design Week RI, hosted by our friends at @designxri! We will be hosting an Open Studio this Saturday, Sept 14. Join us at our new Community Design Center to get a preview of our new facility, learn about c
View fullsize Before we share all the amazing final projects our interns worked on, we wanted to share some (long overdue) images of our final days of building and summer celebration! We are incredibly grateful for all the students, educators, staff, community par
View fullsize EXTENDED DEADLINE❗ DownCity Design is still looking for Design Educators and Teaching Assistants for this upcoming academic year! If you are passionate about the power of design to strengthen communities, we want you on our team! Learn more about bo
View fullsize As our summer program comes to an end, we wanted to share some fun memories our interns have made on their field trips! Over the course of these six weeks, our students met with designers at @pneuhaus, picked blueberries at Osamequin Farm, had a beac
View fullsize Our DCD Summer Design Studio interns had the opportunity to share their work with Providence Mayor Brett Smiley today! Our Design/Build Studio interns were honing their design and fabrication skills by creating large-scale project models from cardboa
View fullsize This week, our summer interns met with their respective clients to present their ideas and receive valuable feedback on the designs they have been working on so far! Thank you to our community clients @wwrc_ri @partnership4pvdparks @gardentime for ta
View fullsize Our Summer Design Studios are officially over the halfway point! Our interns have been hard at work brainstorming ideas and practicing model-making for their community service projects. We are excited to see the amazing concepts they'll come up with,
View fullsize Earlier this week, the Rhode Island Education Collective stopped by our summer design studios for a visit! Thank you @rieducationcollective for supporting our mission to provide free design education to RI teens and taking the time to observe our sum
View fullsize And this is what our Creative Change interns were up to last week! They have begun their introduction to the exciting world of graphic design with some composition exercises and other design challenges. This summer, one group will be creating attract