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What can the relationships in a living system teach us about the places we build?
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Project Meridian
See the shape of ideas.
A spatial atlas for ideas, context, and the connections between them.
An atlas for curiosity
Every idea
has neighbors.
Begin with one field. Follow a connection.
See where a different way of thinking might lead.
Illustrative atlas
06 fields
Ecology
Architecture
Materials
Energy
Computation
Art
Drag to turn · scroll to explore
Choose a starting point
Spaces we share
Architecture
How do materials, climate, and the way people live shape a place?
Matter & making
Materials
How might a material’s structure change what we can make with it?
Power & place
Energy
How can the way we generate and use energy shape buildings and landscapes?
Models & methods
Computation
How can a model help us explore forms, relationships, and possibilities?
Expression & discovery
Art
What happens when a tool becomes a way to see or make something new?
A few possible connections
Ecology
What can the relationships in a living system teach us about the places we build?
Related: Architecture · Materials
Architecture
How do materials, climate, and the way people live shape a place?
Related: Materials · Energy
Materials
How might a material’s structure change what we can make with it?
Related: Art · Computation
Energy
How can the way we generate and use energy shape buildings and landscapes?
Related: Architecture · Ecology
Computation
How can a model help us explore forms, relationships, and possibilities?
Related: Materials · Art
Art
What happens when a tool becomes a way to see or make something new?
Related: Computation · Materials
01
Begin with a question.
An idea has a place within a larger picture. Start with something that makes you curious.
02
Follow a relationship.
Look at nearby themes and links to other fields. A different perspective can open another direction.
03
Keep the larger view.
Move between an individual idea and the network around it, keeping its context close.
From the project preview
A closer look
at the atlas.
Search and filters help narrow the map. Open an idea to explore its context and relationships.
A spatial canvas
The project’s approach to arranging ideas in three dimensions.
From a glance to a closer look
Explore an idea, then open its detail view.
The longer view
Room for many
ways of thinking.
Meridian’s long-term aim is a public commons where people from different fields can find ideas worth developing together.
For researchers, artists, engineers, educators, and anyone curious about what we could build next.
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An early look at Project Meridian. Features and design may evolve as the project develops.
