Applied Curiosity
An illustrated book about turning questions into real things from Stephanie & Isaac Budmen.
436 illustrated pages. Available now.
Heritage Park, Digitized
How do you hold on to a place while your city changes around it?
Made with the Onondaga Historical Association.
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TallyTape
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A Practice of Applied Curiosity
Budmen
Industries
Explore our cabinet of curiosities, interactive artifacts from a decade of making, teaching, and discovery.
Our StoryImagination Outfitters
is now open
Supplies for navigating the unknown.
Contraption
Typography that looks assembled, not drawn
Question Generator
Build unexpected questions by combining unrelated elements. This is how new projects begin.
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
Explore Intersections
Tap disciplines to see what emerges
Pick any 2 disciplines
Figment
Interactive Learning Platform
The platform we built for our Creative Discovery programs: 3D models, sketching, voting, and spatial learning experiences.
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.
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.
Discoveries
Explore more of the creative discovery stories from our applied curiosity practice