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This is where some of the work happens — questions we chased before anything became a product. Each door is a journey. Pick whichever looks interesting.

News Futures Knowledge Prototype 1

How can we turn knowledge into action?

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22 prototypes

Can a webpage be alive without being loud?

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A journey in 13 chapters

What if a screen could feel like a place?

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Watercolour study of two figures in conversation at a table.

5 experiments

How do you teach AI to paint like it paid attention?

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A Shams TV pilot

AI as the cast, not the crew.

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A live build log

This site: the remake.

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A mirror, not a dashboard

What does your browser say about you?

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An experiment, in dispatches

How would we build a learning platform today?

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A periodic table

What are the elements that make an image?

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Face-detection overlay of the Oscars selfie — one of the cabinet's readings.

An atlas of perspectives

How many ways can a single image be read?

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Hand-drawn ink sketch of Bradley Cooper extracted from the Oscars selfie.

Lab journal · pilot 1

Can we tell a photograph who to look at?

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The same watercolour woman in six different scenes, six times over.

Lab journal · one character, ten scenes

Can a face survive ten pictures?

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A watercolour presenter, cut out — one of the test subjects.

Lab journal · a cost hunt

Can a talking head cost three pence?

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An ink-wash sage stooping to read a hexagram cut into a box, a cat's tail curling out from under it.

Lab journal · an old book, a new machine

Can nature pull the straws?

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The word Ciao set into a tiling of rhombi that never repeats.

A pattern safari · 15 stops

What can maths draw?

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Another door being cut

Playable experiments — Spectrum, Game of Wisdom, and the rest. Coming soon…

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