Open source infrastructure for governance,
territory and real-time signal.
Open systems for spatial research, civic infrastructure and field operations.
Platforms, protocols and tools built where data is unreliable, infrastructure is fragile, or the problem has no off-the-shelf answer. The studio develops civic and maritime systems, field documentation tools, open intelligence surfaces and public-facing prototypes that can operate beyond a single exhibition, client or platform. Each system is documented, independently deployable and non-proprietary.
SeaCommons
Open maritime intelligence platform. Distress ingestion, drift trajectory modelling, anomaly correlation, weather context, vessel intelligence and forensic documentation. Field-tested. Open-source core.
Republic
A live, geolocated surface for maritime, ecological and territorial events. Built from open intelligence feeds, field records and public signals, it turns distributed evidence into an inspectable civic interface for research, mediation and long-term public memory.
Works
Works are treated as operational prototypes: civic interfaces, field instruments, autonomous agents and public evidence systems. Embassy, Treasury, Liability and Drifter combine technical construction with institutional legibility, so each project can be read as both artwork and usable infrastructure.
We build open tools for organizations that need to work in public.
Cultural institutions, activist organizations and research groups frequently need data systems, visualization tools and open infrastructure that commercial providers do not build or cannot be trusted to run. We actively take on these projects. The same technical standards, documentation requirements and open-source commitment apply regardless of scale or context.
Systems Registry
Active systems, modules and open specifications produced through suezcanal.xyz research. Four active deployments. Artemis and Vessel Signal in active development. Six systems planned across civilian protection, spatial forensics, atmospheric modelling and open SAR coordination.
Infrastructure where failure
has real consequences.
Maritime safety. Territorial governance. Emergency coordination. Systems built for conditions where standard solutions have never applied, and where the cost of failure is concrete.
documentationOpen by default.
Zero vendor dependency.
Every component documented, independently deployable and modifiable. No licensing. No single point of control. Infrastructure that belongs to whoever runs it.
system registryFrom field constraint
to transferable infrastructure.
Research to prototype to deployment. Tools built under real conditions, released as independently operable components. Infrastructure that outlasts the projects that first required it.
how we work