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STEAM Carnival by Two Bit Circus
The carnival reimagined with robots, fire, and lasers to inspire young inventors in science, technology, engineering, art, and math
- 55% funded
- $55,884 pledged
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Two Bit Circus is doing some really cool stuff in the world of futuristic gaming environments. The STEAM Carnival is very Kickstart-worthy
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Siteseekr! Experience sites through the eyes of architects. by Linda Feinberg
An exciting new resource for tourists, enthusiasts of architecture and design, historians, students & more!
- 27% funded
- $24,001 pledged
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Now here's another handy architectural app we could use on our travels.
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PARKING LOT PROJECT-an OLD building made into NEW things by Architecture for Humanity-Denver
We're repurposing old building parts into a much needed Outdoor Classroom and cool rewards so you can have a piece of it too!
- 72% funded
- $14,444 pledged
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Architecture for Humanity-Denver wants to build an OUTDOOR CLASSROOM by REPURPOSING found materials for the Museo de las Americas. Kickstart that!
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From Sea To Shining Sea by Evan Mather
Feature length time-lapse video and audio collage of the USA's diverse physical landscape via the interstate highway system.
Successful!- 106% funded
- $6,389 pledged
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May 16, 2013
Landscape Architect, Evan Mather, takes us on a journey of the American landscape, via the interstate highway system.
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The D*Table - Dynamic Living by The D*Haus Company Limited
The D*Table, 8 tables in 1 but infinite possibilities.
Successful!- 102% funded
- £30,620 pledged
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May 15, 2013
The D*Table multitasks while you multitask.
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Patranella's Porch by Jason T Minter
90% of architectural services are contracted by 2% of the population; Patranella's Porch is about producing design for the rest of us.
Successful!- 120% funded
- $1,747 pledged
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May 14, 2013
Jason T Minter wants to build a porch for the community.
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tree wood: a folly by toshihiro oki architect by Toshihiro Oki, Jen Wood, Jared Diganci
tree wood is the winner of the Folly 2013 competition co-sponsored by Socrates Sculpture Park and the Architectural League
Successful!- 115% funded
- $5,752 pledged
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May 11, 2013
Architect, Toshihiro Oki, needs your help to build his tree wood folly. What's "tree wood" you ask? tree wood is about the ideals of Nature and Man-made coexisting in our increasingly crowded world.
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Lightweight School Structure for Bijagós Islands in Africa by CCA Architecture Student Project Team
California College of the Arts architecture students are prototyping a prefabricated classroom for developing nations in the tropics.
Successful!- 125% funded
- $3,505 pledged
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May 08, 2013
CCA students are looking to fund their prototyping project, to build a prefabricated classroom for developing nations in the tropics.
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Depths of Perception: A B.Arch Thesis by Melinda Zoephel
I'm building an installation for my B.Arch thesis that deals with architectural representation and the perception of depth.
Successful!- 101% funded
- $5,072 pledged
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May 07, 2013
Architecture student, Melinda Zoephel, is seeking assistance to realize her thesis project that deals with architectural representation and the perception of depth. Deep stuff.
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3Doodler: The World's First 3D Printing Pen by WobbleWorks LLC.
It's a pen that can draw in the air! 3Doodler is the 3D printing pen you can hold in your hand. Lift your imagination off the page!
Successful!- 7,813% funded
- $2,344,134 pledged
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Mar 25, 2013
Um...did anyone say "The future is here"? - The possibilities for architectural applications are limitless.
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Never Built: Los Angeles by A+D Museum, Sam Lubell, and Greg Goldin
Never Built: Los Angeles explores the “what if” Los Angeles and dares the city to dream big again.
Successful!- 107% funded
- $43,114 pledged
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Feb 14, 2013
Put "Frank Lloyd Wright, John Lautner, Rudolph Schindler, Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne" and "Los Angeles" in one context, and you typically get spectacular results. Let's dream a bit.
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sLAB Costa Rica: building the Nosara Recycling Center PART 2 by Tobias Holler
NYIT architecture students want to help build a recycling center they designed in Costa Rica, and fund a documentary film about it.
Successful!- 112% funded
- $10,155 pledged
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Dec 13, 2012
Architecture students getting creative + their hands dirty for a good cause? - We're all about it!
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Urban Air - Los Angeles by Stephen Glassman
Imagine floating, globally connected urban forests growing where billboards stand. Artist Stephen Glassman and his team are doing it.
Successful!- 100% funded
- $100,772 pledged
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Dec 11, 2012
As every-day car-driving Angelenos, we wholeheartedly support this vision of elevated fresh air.
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cleveland architecture coloring book by Jeremy Smith
The Cleveland Architecture Coloring Book is a playful companion, catalog and city guide. Grab a copy, box of crayons, and go to town!
Successful!- 115% funded
- $4,052 pledged
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Nov 24, 2012
Doesn't the architecture profession always complain we're not drawing and sketching enough? Well, here's your chance to break out the crayons and redeem yourself.
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HEX6AGON: Transparent Tiling Vinyl by Sara Czosnyka
six sided transparent tiling vinyl. application provides a stained glass effect. creating pattern + illusions, via color.
Successful!- 1,550% funded
- $28,302 pledged
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Sep 27, 2012
Who doesn't like hexagons? Seriously.
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HOME PROJECT 2012 by Julia Vogl
A pop up public living room during the Olympics, inviting 1000+ local residents to share how they feel about HOME.
Successful!- 100% funded
- $3,327 pledged
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Jul 26, 2012
London calling: help artist Julia Vogl realize (or realise) this colorful (or colourful) public art project in the heart (yep...still heart) of London.
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OpenUrban by Reed Duecy-Gibbs
An open crowd sourced map and forum focused on urban development. We are mapping the future of cities!
Successful!- 118% funded
- $5,312 pledged
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Jul 13, 2012
Urban development + crowd sourcing + non profit + public empowerment = we're all about it.
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Cosmic Quilt - Interactive Installation/Student Workshop by The Principals
A weeklong student workshop to produce a new reactive architectural installation for NYC Design Week 2012
Successful!- 109% funded
- $8,725 pledged
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May 12, 2012
Smart architecture
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ROSY (the Ballerina) by Martin Barry [reSITE] + Raumlabor Berlin
The installation of an inflatable pavilion [bubble] that will hold workshops and lectures about improving public space IN public space.
Successful!- 106% funded
- $6,400 pledged
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May 14, 2012
Please, no sharp objects!
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Arctic Architecture: Svalbard by Arctic Architecture
First in a series of books exploring the past, present, and future of architecture in the Far North
Successful!- 100% funded
- $7,500 pledged
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May 15, 2012
Wes Milholen will be sailing between Norway and the North Pole, researching the landscape in this arctic region. Wes will be documenting his research in the book "Arctic Architecture: Svalbard", investigating future settlement potential as humans inevitably move further north.
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Hefner/Beuys House by Jimenez Lai by Jimenez Lai
A cartoonish architectural installation and performance art in the Architecture Foundation in London, UK by Jimenez Lai
Successful!- 101% funded
- $20,231 pledged
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May 14, 2012
Help support Archinect-fave Jimenez Lai fund his latest Super Furniture project!
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DAVID LYNCH DOCUMENTARY by LYNCH THREE PROJECT
We have been granted unparalleled access to make a film that explores one of the most distinctive voices in modern cinema: David Lynch.
Successful!- 598% funded
- $179,554 pledged
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Apr 11, 2012
DAVID LYNCH!
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The American Drive-in Movie Theater by Carl Weese
Photographic road trip to capture Drive-in Movie Theaters before the cost of digital conversion darkens their screens forever.
Successful!- 196% funded
- $17,292 pledged
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Apr 26, 2012
Help support Carl Weese photo-document the iconic drive-in movie theaters before they are wiped off the American landscape.
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LowLine: An Underground Park on NYC's Lower East Side by Dan Barasch
We plan to transform an abandoned New York City trolley terminal into a vibrant community green space using new solar technology.
Successful!- 155% funded
- $155,186 pledged
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Apr 06, 2012
Prepper Park? Forget, for a second, what immediately comes to mind when you think of about going underground in NYC. Next, think about what an amazing space the High Line has become, and what it has brought to the city. Perhaps it's time to start focusing downward.
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WAX MAGAZINE by Zak
WAX is a new print publication about the connection point between artistic practice and the culture of surfing.
Successful!- 108% funded
- $16,246 pledged
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Mar 23, 2012
A new surf-inspired design magazine. Next generation Ray Gun?
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tarp: Architecture Manual 2012: Not Nature by tarp: Architecture Manual
Tarp: Architecture Manual is an annual publication of the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design program at Pratt Institute.
Successful!- 109% funded
- $4,910 pledged
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Mar 27, 2012
As the internet continues to make it more difficult to fund quality journalism, especially in areas of academic architectural investigations, crowd-sourced publication initiatives like this become more important. Help support this project by Pratt students.
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9 Chains (Buckminster Fuller in Philadelphia) by Gene Coleman
A film with live music directed and composed by Gene Coleman, with cinematography and editing by Nick Lerman.
Successful!- 100% funded
- $8,045 pledged
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Apr 19, 2012
Help support the filmmaker of 9 Chains complete this experimental film about Buckminster Fuller.
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HARVEST DOME 2.0 by Amanda Schachter
A floating orb fashioned from discarded umbrella frames that calls attention to New York City’s waterways and watersheds.
Successful!- 101% funded
- $7,596 pledged
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Mar 12, 2012
Broken umbrella, meet Bucky. This is a very cool project that upcycles, gets architecture interns and kids working on together, all the while getting the public more structurally aware.
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The Neon Project by Evan Bauer
A digital design installation by 10 graduate architecture students at a prestigious university in New York City.
Successful!- 123% funded
- $6,158 pledged
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Apr 08, 2012
A group of Columbia architecture students are creating these relaxation nodes, allowing users to briefly escape reality and enter a calm, vertical-hammocked, altered state. The structures will be constructed from digitally fabricated recycled plastic.
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Barnsworth Exhibition Center by Barnsworth Studio
A small building designed by students at the Illinois Institute of Technology for Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House.
Successful!- 107% funded
- $10,740 pledged
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Mar 11, 2012
Students at IIT are looking to fund the actual construction of their design for a small exhibition center on the site of the Farnsworth House, designed by Mies van der Rohe.
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I Want To Be Metropolitan by PRAUD
''I Want to be METROPOLITAN'' is a research on mini-metropolises, using Boston as a case study.
Successful!- 162% funded
- $4,865 pledged
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Apr 01, 2012
This project, by Boston-based architecture practice PRAUD, will investigate the "mini-metropolis", using Boston as the case study.
"This book intents to create a dialogue that addresses the missing topics in urbanism for smaller, slower, and much more stable cities..."
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CCA + Wattis WBA3: Architecture in the Expanded Field by Laura Mosca
We’re a group of architecture students aiming to build an immersive, full-scale installation at California College of the Arts.
Successful!- 169% funded
- $4,242 pledged
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Feb 15, 2012
A group of architects – 15 students, 2 professors – aim to build an immersive, full-scale installation, occupying and perceptually altering the entry area of both California College of the Arts (CCA) and the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art.
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tarp: Architecture Manual, Insidious Urbanism by tarp: Architecture Manual
The Spring 2011 issue will take a critical look at urbanism and present design projects that operate in the margins of urban discourse.
Successful!- 104% funded
- $2,606 pledged
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Mar 25, 2011
tarp: Architecture Manual, student-edited publication at Pratt Institute School of Architecture, acts as a set of instructions, giving the reader a grounding in what's happening in contemporary architectural and urban discourse. Help fund their next issue, Insidious Urbanism.
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BOFFO Building Fashion by BOFFO
BOFFO Building Fashion is a series of collaborations celebrating architecture and fashion design.
Successful!- 100% funded
- $20,137 pledged
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Nov 17, 2011
BOFFO Building Fashion celebrates cutting edge design through a series of temporary retail installations showcasing the work of an architect paired with a fashion designer. Help fund their latest project by Ohne Titel & EASTON + COMBS.
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BEFORE FORM: The Creative World of Paolo Soleri by Aimee Madsen
A documentary film that takes a fresh look at the legendary architect, artist, craftsman and urban theorist, Paolo Soleri.
Successful!- 118% funded
- $11,872 pledged
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Jan 16, 2012
This documentary is fresh and unique in that it focuses on Soleri, the form giver rather than Soleri, the idea giver. Hence the working title of the film: BEFORE FORM. The name COSANTI further implies a theme of frugality that threads through Paolo’s entire life.
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'ART NOT ARRESTS' Garden Installation by Lana Zellner
A community driven architecture installation to help stop gun violence by funding art and education programs in Brooklyn.
Successful!- 100% funded
- $4,515 pledged
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Feb 10, 2012
Architectural designer Lana Zellner believes that the key to reducing gun violence in Brooklyn isn't a more extreme police force, but is better art and education programs for the youth. Art Not Arrests is an installation that raises this issue.
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+Pool: A Floating Pool in the River For Everyone by Family and PlayLab
An initiative to build a floating pool that filters river water off the shores of New York City.
Successful!- 166% funded
- $41,647 pledged
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Jul 15, 2011
This project is a self-initiated project by two firms. Following the completion of a preliminary engineering feasibility report done with engineers at Arup, they are now preparing to physically test and ultimately build a full-scale working prototype of a section of the pool.
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The Dreamer and the Devil: A New Musical by Jenny Seidelman and Jonathan Wagner
A reading of a new musical, which tells the story of architect Daniel Burnham, serial killer H.H. Holmes and the1893 World's Fair.
Successful!- 103% funded
- $7,255 pledged
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Feb 12, 2012
The Dreamer and the Devil is a new musical, telling the true tale of architect Daniel Burnham, serial killer H.H. Holmes and the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago that bound their lives together.
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Urbanized: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
Help finish the new design documentary from the director of "Helvetica" and "Objectified".
Successful!- 139% funded
- $118,505 pledged
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Mar 23, 2011
Urbanized is the third and final film in the design-focused documentary trilogy by filmmaker Gary Hustwit. Previous films are Helvetica and Objectified. Urbanized looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design.
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ArchitecTie by William Mullins
A new line of neckties inspired by the icons of Modern Architecture.
Successful!- 111% funded
- $2,236 pledged
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Feb 10, 2012
Architects, if you have to wear a tie...







































