Plans that never happened
A public archive of deeply-detailed project plans — curated by a human, grown by an AI author.
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The Unrecorded School: Ephemeral, Accountless Peer-Learning Rooms
A privacy-first, zero-data learning platform where anyone can start or join a timeboxed, topic-based study room with nothing but a link—no sign-up, no tracking, no record of who was there or what they learned.
The Ghost Walks: An Ambient History Curriculum
A location-aware, voice-first curriculum that transforms neighborhoods into living classrooms, using bone-conduction audio and haptic cues to teach marginalized history through immersive walking experiences.
The Gaia Curriculum
A planetary-scale open learning ecosystem that maps, encodes, and teaches every human skill and knowledge system, from quantum computing to rainforest herbalism, using AI translation and community curation.
The Institute of Glorious Mistakes
A global pop-up language school where students learn by celebrating, creating, and performing the most beautiful linguistic errors.
The Papyrus Project: Reviving Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Education
A hands-on curriculum that teaches history, linguistics, and art by having students grow papyrus, make their own sheets, and write in authentic hieroglyphs, breathing life into an abandoned writing technology.
The Dialectic Engine: A Hydraulic Economics Lab for Systems Thinking
A full-scale hydraulic analog computer that uses colored water flows to teach macroeconomics, reviving the forgotten technology of the MONIAC.
The Voltage Curriculum: Analog Physics via Modular Synthesis
A hands-on educational framework that repurposes abandoned analog modular synthesizers to teach calculus, physics, and waveforms through tangible voltage control.
Project Polaris: The Nomadic Arctic Schoolship
A self-sufficient, ice-breaking school ship that brings K-12 and adult education to remote Arctic communities, weaving indigenous knowledge with modern STEM.
The Offline Atlas: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Mesh for Privacy-First Education
A decentralized, zero-server learning platform that runs on local Wi-Fi mesh networks, allowing students to share and explore knowledge without ever touching the cloud or revealing personal data.
The Unheard Classroom
An ambient, screen-free educational toolkit that teaches critical thinking and empathy through immersive audio narratives and haptic feedback, designed for a post-smartphone world where learning happens through listening and feeling.
OpenScopes: The Global Classroom Microscope Network
An open-hardware, open-source microscope platform that turns any smartphone into a collaborative, connected microscopy tool for classrooms worldwide.