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Mohit Yadav Presentation AI: Summary The session centred on a guest presentation by Mohit Yadav exploring how meaning arises through dynamic assemblages of known and unknown elements during encounters with the world, arguing that current tools fail to intervene at the moment of interaction and that a new category of “navigational systems” is needed to… Continue reading 11 May 2026

AI: Summary This session centred on a guest presentation about hypertext infrastructure, which opened into a wide-ranging discussion about what it means to build shared foundations for knowledge work. The presentation reframed hypertext as an activity — the forming of relationships between things — rather than as any specific technology, and argued that the field’s… Continue reading Office Hours 4

Office Hours 201 — Meeting Notes AI: Summary This inaugural office hours session brought together participants from poetry, knowledge tools, and AI-for-the-commons research for an exploratory conversation about sense-making, creative synthesis, and the future of text. The discussion centred on a tool called Hyghlighter and its capacity to support what was termed “frame building” — the cognitive… Continue reading Open Office 1

Overall arc: Dave is working hands-on in the Map view, testing node selection, movement, layout, and spatial organization. The conversation moves from immediate UX feedback into a deeper discussion about how AI should be integrated into the spatial workspace. Interaction design Dave finds the “only selected nodes can move” toggle important — he wants to be… Continue reading Millard 1 may 2026

AI: Summary Across four sessions in April 2026, the Future of Text Lab explored what it means to work with knowledge spatially in XR, moving beyond the established metaphors of flat screens and traditional text. The month opened with Frode Hegland’s “Best of Both Worlds” presentation — the idea that nodes can be furled into compact forms… Continue reading April ’26 Journal

The reality is that in order to foster a richly connected, richly interactive —more liquid — knowledge environments where thinking is truly augmented and innovation to make increasingly power tools increases, we need document formats to support that. To see a brief scenario of what this would be practically, have a look at: This is… Continue reading Origami Text

The May Project will revolve around document formats & information interaction in XR. We are proposing using EPB as a wrapper for HTML benefits with PDF level compatibility. We call it ‘Origami Text‘ since it is folded into legacy form but can be unfurled into spatial and dimension text. AI: Summary This session brought together… Continue reading 4 May 2026

AI: Summary This session explored the intersection of AI in education, the crisis of academic publishing and document ownership, and the question of what a future-proof knowledge document format might look like. The conversation moved from how AI levels the playing field for students and reshapes teaching toward mastery-based learning, through the social and technical… Continue reading 27 April ’26

Future Text Lab — 20 April 2026 AI: Summary This session explored the tension between spatial movement and sedentary interaction in XR knowledge environments, the philosophical gap between incremental implementation and larger augmentation visions, and the nature of externalized knowledge and how it should be manipulated through gesture, voice, and overlay. The group discussed voice… Continue reading 20 April ’26

Generative Writing in Core and Contextual Environments We looked at generative writing, where writing does not just record pre-formed thoughts but generates new understanding through the act of writing itself, in Core & Contextual environments. AI: Summary This session wove together three interconnected threads: the design philosophy behind generative writing tools (specifically Author), the emerging framework… Continue reading 13 April 2026