IDEO’s Creative Residency

IDEO’s Creative Residency

Join IDEO’s 3-month creative residency and get the space, resources, and a one-of-a-kind creative community to explore an idea and publish a drop.

A drop can be anything from a set of prototypes, design fiction that points to a particular view of the future, an art installation, the beginning of a new venture, a zine, and more.

Join IDEO’s 3-month creative residency and get the space, resources, and a one-of-a-kind creative community to explore an idea and publish a drop.

A drop can be anything from a set of prototypes, design fiction that points to a particular view of the future, an art installation, the beginning of a new venture, a zine, and more.

Through this, you’ll get:

Through this, you’ll get:

01 Funding of up to
$15,000 over three months

02 Access to a creative community of designers, technologists, and researchers

03 Time, space (you can hang out with us in our office in SF!), and the support that you need to explore and build

Topics we're really interested in right now:

Topics we're really interested in right now:

Personal data stores and privacy self-management.

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in collaboration with Koodos

New internet primitives.

Spatial/mixed reality.

New user experiences and workflows that leverage AI.

Web3 infrastructure and apps that emphasize solving acute need around finance, markets, and payments.

New takes, speculative or pragmatic, on the web browser, the operating system, the command line interface.

This list is incomplete and always growing. If you have a different topic for a project you would love to work on in a residency setup, we encourage you to apply.

This list is incomplete and always growing. If you have a different topic for a project you would love to work on in a residency setup, we encourage you to apply.

Apply now

Apply now

Current

Residents

Residents

Sarah Friend

Artist & Researcher

IS WORKING ON

funerals for digital life forms—what does a good death mean?

Lafayette Cruise

Creative Technologist

IS WORKING ON

speculations on connection and belonging—what do the the tools of socially healthy future look like?

Mike Bodge

Engineer & Artist

IS WORKING ON

a crypto-incentivized social app—the AUX cord for the internet.

Regy Perlera

Founder & Builder

IS WORKING ON

leveraging AI for property management, development, and maintenance.