Opened in October 2023, The Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University is the physical manifestation of its occupant, the Brown Arts Institute (BAI), which was founded to support all things experimental, forward-thinking, and cutting-edge in the arts; facilitate academic collaboration; and engage activist artists and scholars. The Lindemann is a new typology where all six surfaces of its shoebox-shaped main hall modulate physically and acoustically to create five different stage-audience configurations—experimental media, recital, end-stage, orchestra, and flat floor—and an array of potential secondary modes. In this radically flexible yet extremely precise “laboratory” for explorations in music, theater, dance, and media, performance is not the final product but another piece of vital research in the creation—and pedagogy—of groundbreaking art and arts leaders.