Through Design Challenge and focused Design Workshops, the design stage involves discovering unmet needs of urban stakeholders and conceiving possible solutions and necessary resources to implement them.
We host hackathons and mappathons to prototype, test, and visualize the novel ideas for civic urban start-ups while receiving valuable feedback from a broad spectrum of community stakeholders.
We curate promising urban civic start-up projects to further advance business models, refine of software systems, and crowd-fund them.
We engage in the development of citizen entrepreneurship to reduce the “digital creativity gap” in next generation urban leaders through year-round immersive education and mentoring programs.
Urban Apps and Maps Studio, in partner with Knight Foundation, is organizing a panel discussion during Philly Tech Week 2014 at Temple University this ...
We are three month away from the start of the Summer BITS program 2014 and it has been an amazing journey! With the collaboration of community organization ...
Thank you to everyone who supported and came to the 2014 Design Challenge at the Kimmel Center. The inspiring space served as the perfect backdrop for this ...
Another great semester with Apps + Maps! Our students worked hard on diverse projects and accomplished a lot through teamwork and creative thinking. Our ...
From July 1, 119 Philadelphia area youth (13 – 19 year old, 69 of them are girls!) are learning various digital literacy skills through projects, ...
On a recent excursion with our servicelearning students up to the Village of Arts and Humanities, I had the opportunity to have great conversations about ...
