The phrase "a project to invent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an initiative or endeavor aimed at creating something new or innovative.
Example: "Our team has launched a project to invent a more efficient solar panel."
Alternatives: "an initiative to create" or "a plan to develop".
Instead, a small team of senior engineers was assigned to a special project to invent a way for Facebook to keep functioning without giving up on its hacky mother tongue.
Coming to the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1982 as a post-doctoral fellow, Shapiro was inspired by the Japanese Fifth Generation Computer Systems project to invent a high-level programming language for parallel and distributed computer systems, named Concurrent Prolog.
Most of the people who give TED talks are working on some creative project: to invent new bionic limbs for amputees, new telescopes, new fusion reactors or new protest movements to reduce the power of money in politics.
In shifting to FBC from a slow, reliable, but costly approach to development, NASA forced its project managers to invent radically new processes and procedures.
He told McCaffery, "Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?" So Wallace's project required him to invent a language and a stance of his own.
For his next project he plans to "invent a new form of music".
The Gates Foundation launched its toilet challenge a year ago, funding eight projects that aimed to invent a toilet that could be operated for 5 cents per user per day while recovering salt, water, nutrients, and energy.
For the final project we had to invent something so, at the suggestion of the Professor of the course Dr. Berok Khoshnevis, I created a game.
The point of this project was not remotely to invent a dazzling new technology but rather to create a social commentary.
"Our projects require us to invent computational design tools and technologies to create them," Oxman explains.
If I were asked to come up with a "lost" music project, I'd struggle to invent something more intriguing, attractive, and exciting than disco titan Patrick Cowley recording a pre-post-punk, pre-industrial, pre-disco-not-disco experimental dance LP with Jorge Socarras of Indoor Life between 1975 and 1977.
