About the Building

Welcome to the Design & Innovation Building. Completed in 2021, the Design and Innovation Building (DIB) is UC San Diego's 74,000-square-foot dedicated hub and your campus resource for all things entrepreneurial.

Each floor is designed to help our incredible community of students, faculty and staff explore their ideas, learn how to think and have the ability to move through each floor on their way to making a much larger impact on society with their ideas and potentially, their own startup.

This is your home to incubate and accelerate groundbreaking ideas... to design, create prototypes, test, fabricate, launch a startup and commercialize.

Discover the many opportunities you have at your fingertips here at the DIB. Come tour the building, its unique floors, including: