Small Practice is the laboratory of educational and nonprofit design/build work by Matthew Wolpe and collaborators. 

  Headquartered at Laney College in Oakland CA - Small Practice partners with nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and small businesses to design and build structures, interiors, 
  furniture and products that enhance their capacity to do good. Small Practice operates from the assumption that successful design and craft is intrinsically linked with social and environmental
  responsibility.

  We design, we build, we teach, we lead team-building workshops, we like to collaborate, we have fun.

   Projects are managed from conception to completion, toggling back and forth between the analog (hand drawing, fine woodworking, carpentry,
   metalwork, timberframing) and the digital (CAD, CNC, water jet, laser cutting, 3D printers).

                                               Current and Previous Partners Include:
                                               Laney College
                                               Yestermorrow Design/Build School
                                               Civic Design Studio
                                               Berkeley High School
                                               The Crucible
                                               DesignCorps
                                               City Slicker Farms
                                               Clif Bar/In Good Company
                                               UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
                                               Autodesk Foundation
                                               Spiral Gardens
                                               City of Oakland