Latest field note / 20 October 2026 / 10 min read
The Pip as Argument
On why The Pip is not a privacy product. It is a spatial argument about what consent should feel like in environments where intelligence is embedded rather than visited.
The practice
We build small physical prototypes of intelligence that has left the screen, then find out where people stop noticing them. R&D labs and technology founders come to us to learn that before they build past it.
/01 Prototype
Threshold Prototyping
Physical prototypes of ambient behaviour, made to be lived with, not demoed.
/02 Map
Futures Mapping
The signals in ambient and spatial computing that are still too small for the analysts to price.
/03 Roadmap
Ambient Roadmapping
A plan for technology meant to disappear: when it may act, when it must ask, how you would know it works.
Field notes
20 October 2026 / 10 min
The Pip as Argument
On why The Pip is not a privacy product. It is a spatial argument about what consent should feel like in environments where intelligence is embedded rather than visited.
13 October 2026 / 11 min
Designing for Absence
Most design disciplines aim for presence. Ambient intelligence requires the opposite. And almost nothing in design education, research practice, or product development prepares you for that brief.
Projects
Threshold Monitor
An instrument for finding the moment a quiet system becomes a noticed one. Research prototype.
2026
Ambient Field System
A house that senses everything and keeps nothing. Design fiction, specified as a prototype.
2025
Domestic Residency Protocol
A method for living with speculative prototypes at home, built on one idea: test what people miss when it is taken away.
2023–Ongoing