• If you’re interested in exploring the d.school, please join us for a tour! You’ll learn more about who we are, what we do, and how we think.

• We host public tours every Friday starting at noon (with a more limited schedule during the summer). The tour runs an hour, including plenty of time for questions & answers. The tours are hosted by d.school students and alums who are experts in design thinking and are excited to share their experiences with using the methodology in the field. We do not offer tours at alternative times.

• If you can’t make it to a regularly scheduled tour, you are welcome to come by and see our space on your own. Our doors are open M-F, 9-5,  and we do have materials to guide your exploration

No need to make a reservation, just come on by.

Please see below for upcoming tour dates for 2013:

• NEW: Tuesday, May 14 at 4pm
• Friday, May 17
• Friday, May 24
• Friday, May 31
• Friday, June 7
• Friday, June 14 – **NO TOUR, Graduation Weekend
• Friday, June 21
• Friday, June 28
• Friday, July 5 – **NO TOUR, Summer Schedule
• Friday, July 12 – **NO TOUR, Summer Schedule
• Friday, July 19
• Friday, July 26 – **NO TOUR, Summer Schedule
• Friday, August 2
• Friday, August 9 – **NO TOUR, Summer Schedule
• Friday, August 16
• Friday, August 23 – **NO TOUR, Summer Schedule
• Friday, August 30
• Friday, Sept. 6 - **NO TOUR, Summer Schedule
• Friday, Sept. 13
• Friday, Sept. 20 – **NO TOUR, Summer Schedule
• Friday, Sept. 27 – **NO TOUR, Summer Schedule
• Friday, Oct. 4
• Friday, Oct. 11
• Friday, Oct. 18
• Friday, Oct. 25
• Friday, Nov. 1
• Friday, Nov. 8
• Friday, Nov. 15
• Friday, Nov. 22
• Friday, Nov. 29 – **NO TOUR, Thanksgiving Break
• Friday, Dec. 6 

Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford

Campus can be a tricky place for visitors. Our mailing address and the address you’d want to use if you’re mapping us are different. Check out the directions below. The visitor parking lot accepts credit cards and cash, but it does occasionally fill up.

Our physical address (and the best address for online mapping tools, including google maps):

Thomas F. Peterson Engineering Laboratory/Building 550
550 Panama Mall
Stanford, CA 94305

Telephone: (650) 736-1025
Fax: (650) 736-1526
Email: info@dschool.stanford.edu

If you ever find yourself lost on campus, you can use this searchable campus map to help guide your way. Any of the following search terms will direct you to the right place: Peterson Laboratory, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design and d.school.

General Visitor Directions and Parking

From Highway 101 North & South or El Camino Real

Take the Embarcadero Road exit west toward Stanford. At El Camino Real, Embarcadero becomes Galvez Street as it enters the university. Stay in the left lane on Galvez and at the stop sign turn left onto Campus Drive. Continue on Campus Drive until you reach Mayfield Ave (about 1 mile). Turn right onto Mayfield Ave. After a forced left turn there is a large parking lot off of Mayfield on the right side. (Parking is $1.50 per hour from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and credit cards, bills and coins are accepted.) If you park as far from Mayfield Ave. as you can, you will be in closer proximity to our building.

Once parked, walk north towards Tresidder Union which can be recognized by its outdoor tables. Walk with the Tresidder Union on your left side and you will see the Old Union directly in front of you. Take a left to walk between Tresidder Union and Old Union, and then a right onto Duena Street, keeping Old Union on your right. At the next intersection with Panama Mall, make a left onto Panama. The d.school is two buildings down. On several doors, you’ll see “Thomas F. Peterson Engineering Laboratory.” You’ve arrived!

From Highway 280 North & South

Exit at Alpine Road. Take Alpine Road east toward Palo Alto. Turn right at the first light onto Junipero Serra Blvd. Turn left at the first light onto Campus Drive West. Take the second right onto Santa Teresa St. After two blocks, take a right onto Lomita Rd. Drive one block and turn left onto Mayfield Ave. There is a large parking lot off of Mayfield on the left side. (Parking is $1.50 per hour from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and credit cards, bills and coins are accepted.) If you park as far from Mayfield Ave. as you can, you will be in closer proximity to our building.

Once parked, walk north towards Tresidder Union which can be recognized by its outdoor tables. Walk with the Tresidder Union on your left side and you will see the Old Union directly in front of you. Take a left to walk between Tresidder Union and Old Union, and then a right onto Duena Street, keeping Old Union on your right. At the next intersection, Panama Mall, make a left onto Panama. The d.school is two buildings down. On several doors, you’ll see “Thomas F. Peterson Engineering Laboratory.” You’ve arrived!