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A Practice of Applied Curiosity

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Explore our cabinet of curiosities—interactive artifacts from a decade of making, teaching, and discovery.

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IMPACT
3.5M+ Face Shields Made in 90 days around the world
STORY
From Atoms to Bits Scarab Vase 1000 hours to make, a 1000 hours to digitize
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Explore instruments of curiosity, each one started with a question

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NEW FONT

Contraption

Typography that looks assembled, not drawn

STORY
Edible Art 3D Printed Pastry
EXPERIMENT

Question Generator

Build unexpected questions by combining unrelated elements. This is how new projects begin.

What if we could
taste
a star?
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Neil Harbisson

The Sonochromatic Scale

Neil Harbisson's Color-Sound Map

Born colorblind, Neil Harbisson senses colors as sounds through a surgically implanted antenna. Each hue has a unique frequency—this is his sonic spectrum.

Tap any color to hear its sound

349 Hz
659 Hz
Discover the Cyborg Sculpture
EXPLORE

Explore Intersections

Tap disciplines to see what emerges

Pick any 2 disciplines

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Creative Discovery Method
BOOK
For Events Keynotes & Speaking
STORY
NSF Partnership Watts the Spot Collaboratively creating Power Beacons to keep our communities safe
START HERE
Work With Us Speaking • Workshops • Education • Design
STORY
Happy Accidents Scoria Stools
PLATFORM

Figment

Interactive Learning Platform

The platform we built for our Creative Discovery programs—3D models, sketching, voting, and spatial learning experiences.

MOVEMENT

Let Curiosity Lead

A Civic Movement

Our campaign to make curiosity a civic virtue, delivering community voices to government and community leaders through the Curiosity Mailbag.

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TOOL

Loopbook

Tutorial Creation Made Simple

Our app for creating step-by-step tutorials that loop—making it easy to teach skills and easier to learn them.

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Project Stories

Explore more of the creative discovery stories from our applied curiosity practice