MAD Making
Fostering MIT’s maker culture through access, community, and hands-on exploration.
MAD Making, formerly known as Project Manus, supports MIT’s vibrant maker ecosystem by providing students with the spaces, tools, and training needed to bring ideas to life. As part of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design, MAD Making promotes hands-on learning and design across disciplines and levels—undergraduate, graduate, and beyond.
MAD Making operates two staffed makerspaces on campus—The Deep (Building 37) and Metropolis (Building 6C)—offering access to a wide range of tools, from belt sanders and saws to 3D printers and electronics stations. These spaces are open to all MIT students and emphasize safety, skill-building, and peer learning.
Beyond these spaces, MAD Making helps the MIT community navigate the MIT Makersystem, a network of over 35 makerspaces across campus. Through make.mit.edu, students and researchers can find available tools, learn how to use them, and connect with communities focused on general making, entrepreneurship, research, art, biomaking, and more.
MAD Making advances MIT’s commitment to learning by doing—empowering students not only to make things, but to shape ideas, collaborations, and futures.