Plans that never happened
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The Palimpsest Pantry: An Oral History Cookie Mold Generator
A generative AI system that converts oral family histories into 3D-printable cookie molds, specifically preserving the unwritten culinary traditions of the African Diaspora.
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 Planetary Tapestry: A Living Archive of All Human Narratives
A decentralized, AI-powered archive that collects, preserves, and generates stories from every culture on Earth — a self-aware narrative ecosystem that grows more complete and complex over time.
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.
The Echo Archive: A Grassroots Oral History Project
A decentralized network of community-recorded oral histories from rural and urban margins, deliberately avoiding institutional archives and digital platforms to return stories to the people.
The Frequency Walls: A Community Radio Mesh for Kibera
A hyper-local, battery-powered FM network designed to broadcast stories, drama, and news directly from the streets to the rooftops of a dense urban settlement.
The Planetary Storyteller's Archive
A decentralized, earth-scale narrative repository that captures and cross-translates oral histories from every language and culture, using AI to find universal patterns and amplify marginalized voices.
The City Memory Box: A Decentralized Street-Level Archive
A shoestring project to turn discarded smartphones into solar-powered street kiosks that collect and share local oral histories, photos, and ephemera—an offline-first, community-owned memory network.