Low-pressure Labs In Which to Experiment

There’s nowhere quite like the Center for Creativity’s three unique spaces where Pitt students, faculty, and staff from across disciplines are invited to “risk boldness,” and develop the skills any good researcher needs:  A willingness to experiment in unexpected ways and the humility that comes with making and fixing mistakes.

The Workshop is a maker space that offers free materials such as typewriters, paint, a 3-D printer, with an emphasis on creation rather than product.

The Text & conText Lab encourages “the creation, manipulation, and/or disassembly of text.” The space offers visitors access to bookbinding, papermaking, and printing presses.

The Understory, in the basement of Pitt’s historic Cathedral of Learning, offers a stage, a podcast studio, sewing machines, and musical accoutrements to explore dance, music, theater, and puppetry.