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Second Line Serenade: A Geospatial Soundwalk for New Orleans
An immersive mobile app that turns your walk through New Orleans into a generative second line parade, blending live GPS data with archival recordings and real-time local musicians.
Echoes of the Abyss: A Deep-Sea Light and Sound Installation at the Mariana Trench
A permanent, self-powered light and sound installation that translates the crushing pressure and frigid silence of the Challenger Deep into a meditative experience for remote viewers and future submersible explorers.
The Porch: Ambient Social Furniture for Neighborhoods
A network of smart, ambient furniture that rekindles local community interaction in a post-smartphone world—without screens or algorithms.
Trench-Code
An offline-first IDE hardened for development in warzones, disaster zones, and space, with resilient versioning and collaboration via shortwave radio.
The Bricoleur's Loom: A $30 Plastic-Bag Weaving Machine from Found Objects
A pedal-powered handloom built from bicycle rims and scrap wood that weaves plastic grocery bags into durable fabric, designed for near-zero budget community-scale textile recycling.
Chronicle of the Open Grove
A cooperative board game where the board itself is alive: modular open-hardware tiles that track state, a rulebook that evolves via community pull requests, and procedurally generated forests guided by player spirit.
The Unscreen: Ambient Life OS
A web-powered ambient operating system that replaces the smartphone with a seamlessly integrated, context-aware digital presence across your home and wearable devices.
Ghost Note – Ephemeral Location-Based Messaging
Turn any place into an anonymous, temporary digital bulletin board. Messages live 24 hours, then vanish.
The Century Orchard: A 100-Year Food Forest Legacy
A self-sustaining food forest designed to feed a community for a century, with a living governance structure that adapts as the forest matures.
The Attentive Room
A room-scale ambient productivity system that uses light, sound, and scent to help you focus, switch tasks, and wind down—no screens, no notifications, just your environment working with you.
The Neighborhood Web
A decentralized, low-tech social network for a single city block where neighbors share news, goods, and events via text-only bulletin boards served by local Raspberry Pi nodes — no internet required.
The Bourbon Street Bond: Tokenized Revenue-Share for New Orleans' Music Venues
A blockchain-based fixed-income security that lets anyone invest in the iconic music venues of New Orleans, earning a share of nightly door and bar revenue.
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.
Project Biolume: Sound-Responsive Bioluminescent Bacteria in a Weekend
A frantic weekend attempt to engineer E. coli to flash in synchrony with music, creating a living, light-up petri dish disco.
Hybrid Ghosts: An Album of AI-Generated Folk Instrument Crossbreeds
A plan to build a library of 1,000+ folk instrument samples, train a generative model to create hybrid instruments by blending them, then record an album using only these never-before-heard sounds.
The Tactile Grammars Project: Formalizing Deafblind Sign Language Structures
A linguistic research initiative to document, analyze, and formally model the unique spatial and tactile grammar of deafblind sign languages, with the goal of creating an open-access reference grammar and computational parser.
The Century Chronicle: A 100-Year Serial of Unheard Voices
An invitation-only serial where one writer from a marginalized community adds a chapter each year for 100 years, creating a living archive of diverse narratives. The final work is a century-spanning novel in progress, designed to be discovered in 2125.
The Grand Flavor Parade: A Mobile Sensory Feast
A roving parade of absurd, flavor-themed floats combining scent, taste, sound, and sight, celebrating culinary diversity through joyful community collaboration.
StarterKit: The No-Sweat Micro-Business Builder
A monthly subscription that delivers everything an absolute beginner needs to conceive, launch, and run a tiny real-world business—from market validation to first sale—via hands-on kits, guided workflows, and a no-jargon community.
Wandering Wallpaper
A dynamic wallpaper system that uses ambient data—temperature, humidity, sound, time—to slowly evolve its patterns, turning any wall into a living, soothing canvas.