Core Inquiry

This work investigates how technological systems can remain accountable to living ecologies.

Modern systems thinking often privileges abstraction, optimization, and scale. Yet embodied knowledge, territorial practice, and ecological constraint operate through rhythm, limit, and relationship.

My inquiry traces the tension between these modes of knowing — asking how digital infrastructures might be redesigned when informed not only by abstraction, but by somatic intelligence and place-based practice.

In herbal medicine practice, technology is inseparable from ecology: attention, dosage, seasonality, and reciprocity are part of the method. In that sense, plant medicine can be understood as an original technology – a lineage of design grounded in relationship rather than optimization.