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An open studio at the intersection of things that don't fit anywhere else — civic tech that actually serves communities, contemplative practice as a field of inquiry, art as research, and design as a civic act.

Current Experiments

My Work with Habitat Learn

My Work with Tri-cycle Data Systems

Friends of Little Big Ideas

Coming soon

About

Little Big Ideas is Jacob Cogan's home for personal projects — and for his activities as an artist, designer, and organizer in the world.

Jacob is an industrial designer, product leader, projection mapper, artist, and community builder. Growing up with learning disabilities gave him an early, lived understanding of what it feels like when systems aren't built for you.

He brings a maker's instinct to every problem: the belief that the right thing to do is usually to build something and see what it teaches you.

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