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Sideburns
An offline-first participatory Burning Man map, built on the official Burning Man API, for discovering services, art, food, sidequests, and temporary experiences on playa.
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- Offline maps · Burning Man API · participation · playa
Summary
An offline-first participatory map for Burning Man built around discovery rather than navigation alone. Drawing on the official Burning Man API, Sideburns lets people find essential services, temporary resources, art, food, sidequests, and fleeting experiences while also allowing participants to leave new discoveries behind for others.
Project record
01 / Overview
An offline-first Burning Man map, connected to the official Burning Man API, for discovering resources, experiences, sidequests, services, and participant-created beacons on playa.
02 / The idea
The most useful things in a temporary city are often informal, moving, and absent from official maps.
03 / What I did
Product concept, interaction design, Burning Man API integration, offline system architecture, mapping logic, and prototype development.
04 / How it works
The official Burning Man API supplies art projects and city data, cached locally so the map and participant beacons remain useful with intermittent connectivity — resilient discovery over live-platform dependence.
Artifacts / working material
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