The open project
Real problems, worth twelve weeks.
A Build Cycle doesn't start with a brief. It starts with a problem situation: something real and messy that people face, brought by the people who face it. Teams form round it, and what they make goes back to whoever brought it.
Problem situations
The Fall 2026 cycle's problems are published after its Showcase on January 12, 2027.
Bring us a problem
Have one?
Agencies, libraries, employers and neighbours bring them. If it's real, affects people, and could use twelve weeks of a team's attention, tell us about it. Make your free account and say what it is; someone from the Lab near you will follow up.
Bring a problem
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