Plans that never happened
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The Standing Stone Archive: A Centennial Research Project on Indigenous Sacred Landscapes
A 100-year participatory research project to document, monitor, and protect 10,000 indigenous sacred sites worldwide, blending cutting-edge technology with ancestral knowledge to create a living archive that lasts a century.
Talking Trees: A Mobile Audio Archive for Indigenous Oral Traditions
An offline-first, mesh-networked mobile app that empowers indigenous elders in the Amazon to record and share oral traditions in their native languages, preserving knowledge without the need for literacy or internet.
SONAR: Sub-Oceanic Networked Acoustic Resonance
A live, deep-ocean concert that streams the sonic environment of hydrothermal vents and shipwrecks, collaborating with indigenous coastal communities and using tactile feedback for deaf audiences.
Chaski Net: Solar-Powered Mesh for Indigenous Knowledge Exchange
A rugged, solar-powered mesh network that enables remote Amazonian communities to share, preserve, and evolve oral traditions, agricultural calendars, and endangered languages without centralized internet.
The Permafrost Commons: A Self-Governing Arctic Living Lab
A planned year-round residential community in Svalbard designed as a co-governed hub for indigenous knowledge, climate science, and resilient living in extreme cold, powered entirely by local renewables and waste heat recovery.