Open World Design

What if the world is larger than we’ve been taught to perceive?

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The world is larger than it appears

Perceptions are as unique as fingerprints.

Perception shapes design. Design shapes participation. Participation shapes society.

When perception narrows, possibility narrows. When perception expands, possibility expands.

Every perspective reveals part of the picture.

There was always more here than you first perceived.

A growing library

Stories that expand perception.

Short Film
The Color of Sound
A synesthete cartographer maps a city no one else can see.
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Audio Drama
Letters from the Margins
Six voices, six ways of moving through the same afternoon.
Accessibility: Transcript · Plain-text companion
Interview
On Perceiving Slowly
A conversation with a blind architect about light and weight.
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Soundscape
Rooms Without Eyes
A twelve-minute listening room. Headphones recommended.
Accessibility: Score notes · Written walkthrough
Speculative Future
A City Designed for Difference
What if streets were composed the way music is?
Accessibility: Available in plain text · Screen-reader tested
Short Film
The Quiet Apparatus
A repair shop for the senses, somewhere outside time.
Accessibility: Captions · Audio description · Transcript

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