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Based in New York City, Urban Design Week is a festival of events that engages residents in the public realm. Through a call for design ideas and a number of discussions, tours, screenings, and...
Although crowd sourcing and gamification in urban design are still at an infant stage, there are already well established open source initiatives and ideas that could help define this new way of...
Two leading platforms from different parts of the crowdsourcing world are teaming with Crowdsourcing Week to show off the industry's potential to not only create, but also to support and empower developing communities around the world at the same time.
Most people who want to remodel their home come to realize that the rates of professional architectural design services can quickly spiral out of control; depending on the job, professional designers may charge thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars per project — and that’s before the actual construction costs. Enter the crowd. Arcbazar.com — ‘arc’ for architecture and ‘bazar’ for bazaar — attempts to “make architectural design accessible to everyone who is looking for it.” Crowdsourcing.org spoke with Dr. Imdat As, founder of Arcbazar, to learn more — and to ask for kitchen remodeling ideas (…ok, maybe not).
Ardent fans and many industry veterans of the computer game industry advocate that the general lack of creativity in game development has caused a rippling effect that leaves leading and blooming game developers clinging to the hope of making the next “big come back” to wow gamers. Sadly, this has been far from reality for some; and in a world where only the best game developer gets to take home the bigger sales check, many have decided to blow open the doors of their own restricted environment to welcome a more democratic approach in game design.
Natalia Garcia had a dream to travel to 12 world cities to see how it would be possible to live in a place designed for people – and not for cars. Natalia is a journalist and cyclist from São Paulo, Brazil. And Sao Paulo, is a really terrible place for cyclists and pedestrians. So, she decided to turn her idea into reality, and left her job at Editora Abril to launch the project Cidades para Pessoas (Cities for People), a dream that materialized through crowdfunding.
We showcase five platforms, four of which launched (or added new functionality) recently: DesignCrowd, Rock The Post, FundaGeek, and PyBossa. The last, GetFunded, will go live in a few weeks.
Yesterday we posted a piece from Candace Klein of SoMoLend and securities attorney Sean Peppard on how the crowdfunding portions of the JOBS Act will unroll over the next several months. Today we follow up with some more detail from attorney Mike Liles, Jr. of the firm Karr, Tuttle and Campbell.
When it comes to the most innovative use for crowdsourcing, Local Motors car-creation-by-committee ranks up there with Quirky’s quirky inventions and University of Washington’s folding...
Georg Neumann, a communications specialist at the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Interamerican Development Bank, recently previewed a workshop being organized by the MIF and massolution (a Crowdsourcing.org sister company) on the potential of crowdfunding in Latin America. We share it here with the author's permission.
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