NOR_/D is an international research and development collaborative dedicated to the merging of open source art, architecture, software and system design.

According to co-founder Addie Wagenknecht, NORTD Labs "wants to change how people create, build and consume objects.

[5] NORTD Labs was founded in 2006 by Addie Wagenknecht and Stefan Hechenberger during graduate school at New York University and established officially during a research fellowship at the New York-based Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in 2007-2008.

NORTD Labs has recently held fellowships at Carnegie Mellon University STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and CultureLab UK.

Addie Wagenknecht: Co-Founder (United States) Stefan Hechenberger: Co-Founder (Austria) Scott Snibbe, Laban Motion Player Free Art and Technology Lab, BrickiPhone OpenFrameworks, OpenCV library Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture dFAB, Optimization of Parenting