Programs of inquiry
Four questions, held long enough to answer honestly.
Each program is a term in the sum. They run concurrently and on their own clocks; none of them is scheduled to conclude.
The field
The four programs divide along two axes that matter to us: whether the question is chiefly about a system’s conduct or about the environment it creates, and whether the human at the centre of it is being supported or taxed by what exists today.
They overlap, and the overlaps are where most of the interesting work has been.
-
Companionable Intelligence
What does it take for an AI presence to earn a place in family life? Not to capture attention, but to hold trust, with boundaries a household actually controls.
Read the program →
-
Neurodivergent-First Design
Most software assumes a mind it was never tested on. What do interfaces look like when they are designed from AuDHD and neurodivergent cognition outward, rather than retrofitted with accommodations?
Read the program →
-
Learning as Experience
AI can already generate curriculum. The open problem is the experience of learning: environments that adapt to the child rather than the child to them, across pace, modality, interest and regulation.
Read the program →
-
Sensory & Ambient Wellbeing
Environments, media, and machines all tax the human nervous system. How can they be designed to lower its cost of living instead?
Read the program →
How they are run
Programs are long. We publish when there is something true to say.
Every program uses the same method: study at family scale, research by building, and publish only what clears the bar. Most of what a program produces stays inside the house, which is the intended behaviour rather than a backlog.
If you are a researcher, an institution, or an aligned collaborator with a serious interest in any of these questions, we read correspondence carefully.