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Lumber & Lore: Modular Supply Co-op for Women of Color in Construction
A vertically integrated supply chain and mentorship hub designed specifically to democratize access to high-grade construction materials for women of color contractors.
Phantom Zoetrope: A Civic Animation Engine
A public art project that revives the 19th-century zoetrope using modern materials and community collaboration, turning any park or plaza into a hand-cranked animation studio.
IceSwap: The Polar Credit Protocol
A physical token-and-ledger credit system for Antarctic research stations to trade supplies, labor, and science equipment during six-month winter isolation, without internet or cash.
The Algorithmic Harm Audit Collective
A community-led, decentralized research project to map and document real-world harms from algorithmic systems, bypassing traditional academic gatekeeping.
The Last Syntax
A terminal-based narrative adventure where you, as a programmer trapped in a decaying AI, solve puzzles using actual code snippets to recover fragmented memories—all with zero budget, zero graphics, and only the command line.
The Personal Audit Engine
A gamified, single-entry bookkeeping approach to personal finance that turns every transaction into a tiny puzzle, forcing awareness without the drudgery of traditional budgeting.
Re:Material
A one-person, curated marketplace for high-end reclaimed architectural materials, combining field curation with logistics management.
Project: OpenSeis | The Distributed Fault Monitor
A global, open-hardware initiative to map micro-seismic activity using low-cost DIY sensors and open-source signal processing, democratizing the data that traditional seismology keeps behind paywalls.
Lumina: The Ambient City
A spatial interface that decodes the physical world into emotional atmosphere, replacing the screen with the environment itself.
Etheric: A Literary Zine on the Spirit Duplicator
Revive the ditto machine—that purple-ink, chemical-smelling printer of the pre-Xerox era—to produce a quarterly literary zine that foregrounds the tactile, flawed, and ephemeral nature of the medium.
Chronos: The Century-Scale Cultural Guardian
An adaptive AI system designed to preserve, interpret, and evolve human cultural knowledge across 100 years, surviving technological and societal shifts through self-sustaining architecture and decentralized governance.
Project Silica-01: The Subglacial Bioreactor
A proposal to drill into the Ross Ice Shelf, inject a self-replicating synthetic biosphere, and maintain a sealed, pressure-resistant research node deep within the Antarctic ice for a minimum of ten years to study closed-loop biochemistry in extreme conditions.
The Velvet Anchor
A kinetic sculpture that replaces the smartphone by translating digital busyness into physical weight, texture, and ambient sound, removing the need for a screen.
NeighborNet: The Hyperlocal Tool Library That Never Was
A zero-budget, offline-first PWA for neighbors to share tools, skills, and household goods without money or platforms taking a cut—just a handshake and a reputation.
The Planetary Cognitive Atlas
A multi-decade research initiative to map and model every known cognitive system on Earth—human cultures, animal societies, and machine intelligences—into a unified framework for understanding planetary-scale collective intelligence.
Echoes: The Ambient Conversation Engine
An AI that lives in your home as a silent listener, offering proactive assistance through voice and gentle projections — no screens, no apps, just conversation.
Fissure: The Subterranean Ops Console
A ruggedized, subterranean command-line interface that treats rock strata as a mutable codebase, allowing mine engineers to visualize stress fractures and deploy autonomous drone swarms to 'patch' unstable tunnels in real-time.
SparkGen: The Weekend Thermoelectric Generator
A portable, high-efficiency thermoelectric generator built from a rocket stove and scavenged Peltier modules, delivering 15W off-grid power — all in a single weekend.
Project Epoch: The Century-Long Simulation
A massively multiplayer online world that unfolds in real-time over 100 years, where every player's actions shape a persistent history, and the game's final epoch concludes on December 31, 2100.
Terra Mesh: The Off-Grid Resilience Network
An offline-first, peer-to-peer communication and resource map designed to turn smartphones into community lifelines for climate refugees navigating hostile, disconnected environments.