Make room for hands-on learning.
Connect the people who know how with people ready to learn. Construction, repair and fabrication skills become more valuable when there is meaningful work to use them on.
The Foundry
A neighborhood that knows how to make things.
A place to learn a skill, recover a material, work on an idea and help build what comes next. The Foundry brings practical capability into the heart of the Built By DAO model.
From knowledge to practice
Learn it. Use it. Pass it on.
Give useful ideas a place to happen.
Tools and productive space help move an idea off the page. The Foundry approach connects making and maintaining to the needs of the neighborhood around it.
See the next use, not the end.
Recover, sort and prepare useful materials for another life. Deconstruction and repair connect resourcefulness to the everyday work of building.
Make capability a foundation for opportunity.
Skills, working relationships and a place to make things can support local businesses. The aim is an economy with more useful work rooted close to home.
Part of the neighborhood
The workshop and the home belong in the same story.
People need places to live. Places need people who can care for them.
Connecting homes with practical skills and productive space gives the Foundry a purpose beyond a single project. The people who learn and build become part of the neighborhood’s long-term capability.
See the whole modelBring it to life
What would you bring to the workbench?
A trade you know. A skill you want to learn. Tools, materials, a space or an idea worth testing.
Bring your time and skill.
Tell us the kind of work you do and the role you want to play. Share what you know or help turn a practical idea into a clear next step.
Explore contributingBring a resource or relationship.
Connect a workshop, training organization, material stream or local business to the conversation.
Explore a partnershipBuilt by people. Built to last.
Help make the place where things get made.
The Foundry starts with people willing to put knowledge, care and useful resources to work.