The big story · A community experiment
The puts its own tools to the test
A two-week building challenge asks a simple question: can the ’s new tools help people make something useful?
A community-run building challenge opened on 2 October. It points entrants to 19 tools and guides made by the , with some still arriving. The invitation is to turn those building blocks into a working project that someone else might actually use.
Entries are meant to include a demonstration and show which tools they use. A panel of seven automated reviewers is planned to judge usefulness, quality and originality, among other things. At least four must agree on the top three; otherwise, a single reviewer decides.
This is an experiment, separate from IMD’s official plans. The tools may not work as described, and judging can fail. Still, the sets a worthwhile test: whether the can make things that are useful beyond the people who built them.