Welcome to Imponderable Bloom
A speculative design fiction project exploring near-future infrastructure, AI-led planning, and the ethical tension between optimization and memory.
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The Machine Stops
A reflection on E.M. Forster's 1909 short story and its relevance to our AI-driven future.
Research and Reading
This reading map organizes key works of fiction, theory, and design around major themes related to automation, simulation, and ethical design in the built environment.
From TVA to AIC: Consolidation from Crisis
What the Tennessee Valley Authority teaches us about how societies respond to crisis, infrastructure failure, and the need for centralized planning—and what this might mean for the autonomous infrastructure of the future.
Briefing Overview of the AESE
In prior planning eras, decisions were judged by feasibility and cost. But in a polycrisis era—climate shocks, migration, demographic collapse—**planning must also account for psychological viability.**
Policy Memo: Framework for Delegated Eminent Domain
A foundational policy memo from the Autonomous Infrastructure Collective (AIC), proposing a protocol for limited autonomous stewardship of land during times of civic collapse.