Civic Interplay / Do

Doing

Reading is half of it. The other half is doing. These are tools, practices, and (soon) workshops for noticing, mapping, and making in the planetary age. First drafts of things you can use. Bring your scepticism.

Tool 01

Sightings

A tool for civic noticing. Bring your phone, your camera, your senses. What can you see when you slow down enough to notice the interfaces, infrastructures, and intelligences shaping the place you are in?

Sightings

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Tool 02

Terrain

A walkable semantic terrain. Texts, noticings, and ideas cluster into regions based on the patterns embeddings find in them. Nearby points share more than language.

Terrain

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Tool 03

Sovereignties

A live map of the infrastructure behind AI in Australia. Data centres, mines, refineries, energy, and water, plus the lines of ownership running through them. Each point is a site on the ground: who owns it, who governs it, and what it draws to keep running. The map reads from an open tracker, so it shifts as the tracker does.

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Coming soon

Workshops, worksheets, and more tools are in development. If you're a practitioner, student, or researcher who'd like to be involved, reach out.