Search results for: urban
Content Type
- Articles
- Blogs
- Questions
- Documents
- Videos
- Sites
- Editorials
Most Relevant
Latest
Trending
Most Viewed
document Distributed KnowledgeUrban Airship has more than 20,000 customers using its tools and services to power their mobile applications. The data across hundreds of thousands of apps, millions of consumers and billions of...
document Crowdfunding
If successful, crowdfunding could open a bevy of new doors for urban renewal projects in economically depressed areas around the country by making it possible to raise capital without having to...
document Distributed Knowledge, Open InnovationWhat’s great about By the City/For the City is that you don’t need to be a city planner or have any artistic abilities to share your ideas, you just need to have a great vision. Plus the ideas are...
document Open Innovation, Tools
Public officials, landscape architects, and community advocates have long debated the idea of the accessibility and upkeep of planting fruit trees and berry bushes, etc. on public property....
document Cloud Labor, Distributed KnowledgeThere are many governments, organizations, and individuals in the EU that utilize social media to expand environmental awareness and action. Some of these can be followed on Twitter or Facebook...
document CrowdfundingIn order to offset the project's costs, including the purchase of hives, bees and honey-processing equipment, Kinsman has created a Kickstarter campaign. Rewards for contributors include raw...
blog CrowdfundingCrowd-funding has become extremely popular over last years. Lots of cultural, artistic and design initiatives have already been made possible thanks to platforms like Kickstarter. But will this...
article Crowd CreativityMinecraft changed the video game industry by selling millions of downloads of an indie game. Now the free-form building game is inviting players to help redesign real-world locations around the...
article Open InnovationUrban Driving Experience Challenge is a two-phase crowdsourcing competition giving consumers the opportunity to come up with ideas for new features and functions that will ‘enhance the urban...
video Open InnovationThe Urban Driving Experience Challenge dovetails rather neatly with BMW’s tie-up with the Guggenheim for the long-term BMW Guggenheim Lab initiative which is looking to ‘spark a conversation about...
article Crowdfunding, Distributed KnowledgeFunded with USD 25,000 from their Kickstarter backers, the team behind The Farmery aims to further develop its prototype low-cost shipping container farms to eventually create a space that is able...
article Distributed KnowledgeMany projects around the world working on tactical and DIY urbanism are using crowdsourced mapping to gain attention and spread the word locally, creating contexts of individual and collective...
article CrowdfundingWhole Kids Foundation, PACT and Indiegogo have joined forces to create an inspiring crowdfunding initiative: building 100 urban gardens across the United States. This is the first time a...
article Distributed Knowledge So crowd source basically means anyone who wants can write a definition of any word. They could, in theory, make it up and sometimes they do. And all you have to do is get five other people who...
document Distributed KnowledgeMove over community meetings, Give a Minute is here!
Indeed, community meetings are out of the picture because of the Give a Minute campaign. The Give a Minute campaign crowdsources the...
site Crowdfunding / Donations, Philanthropy and Sponsorship ioby connects people with great ideas for environmental change in their neighborhoods to people and money they need to make it happen. ioby.org is a crowd-resourcing platform where people share...
document CrowdfundingSelf-described "Design Geek," Gary Hustwit, was conducting interviews with his cinematographer for his third documentary, "Urbanized," about urban design, when he hit a...
document Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation
PhillyTreeMap is a web mapping application that solicits citizen input, similar to the successful OpenStreetMap. Robert Cheetham started the project two years ago when he won a government grant...
document Open Innovation
The Enabling City, a new way of thinking about communities and change. Guided by principles such as collaboration, innovation and participation, the pioneering initiatives featured in The...
document Crowdfunding
Asked about the benefits for third-party funding, founder of Spacehive Chris Gourlay states in an interview:
“Public space is a huge arena that has a huge bearing on our quality of life,...