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ThinkCycle began in March 2000 as a grassroots initiative by an inter-disciplinary group of graduate students at the MIT Media Laboratory. The project was founded on the vision of leveraging the creative thinkcycles of students and domain experts everywhere to work on critical design challenges, and with the core mission of documenting evolving design solutions, processes, peer reviews and intellectual contributions within a searchable, distributed and cross-referenced online system. Though ThinkCycle was primarily targeted as a resource for design & engineering students in universities, the goal of the project was to be accessible to and leverageable by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the communities they serve. Today ThinkCycle is a dynamic culture of open source design innovation, with ongoing collaboration among individuals, communities and organizations around the world. Thinkcycle offers a platform for the development and deployment of new collaborative design tools, as well as an online database of well-posed design challenges and practical solutions. |
