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PROJECTS

Five sites, one continuous experiment. Each node tests a different scale of the same question: how much life can a place support when its inputs, outputs, and people are accounted for?

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STATUSONGOING / IN DEVELOPMENT
OPERATING RANGEHABITAT → LANDSCAPE
01NODE INDEX
Two people tending a community garden bed beside a shedHX-01
01 / 05ONGOING

H.I.V.E.

Highly Intensive Versatile Envelope

A compact habitat that wraps around its inhabitants and augments their ability to grow food, build tools, make media, and move.

  • Aquaponics
  • Food processing
  • Vermicompost
  • Fungi
  • Software / hardware
OPEN NODE
A dense food garden with red flowers growing in a front yardLG-02
02 / 05ONGOING

LOTUS GARDEN

Small-scale food forest

A front-yard food forest that proves permaculture can start at the scale of a lawn, a gutter, and a conversation with a neighbor.

  • Food forest
  • Swales + water
  • Seed saving
  • Urban ecology
OPEN NODE
A person crouching in a coop with chickensFG-03
03 / 05ONGOING

FORGE

First hands-on site

The site where b(x) first acquired hands-on experience: a budding food forest, chickens, compost, and a biodiesel experiment.

  • Food forest
  • Hydroponics
  • Biodiesel
  • Composting
  • Chickens
OPEN NODE
People working at sewing machines during a repair workshopBM-04
04 / 05ONGOING

BxM

benevolentXmachine

A sub-project that uses engineering, architecture, media, and workshops to critique the present and prototype a more permanent one.

  • Design
  • Construction
  • Documentary
  • Publishing
  • Critical media analysis
OPEN NODE
A freshly dug swale cutting across a green fieldOX-05
05 / 05IN DEVELOPMENT

OASIS

Six-acre food forest

Six acres of open land being converted into a perennial food forest through swales, tree planting, and long-horizon observation.

  • Swales
  • Perennial staples
  • Tree planting
  • Rewilding
  • Nursery
OPEN NODE
02BUILD WITH US

THE NEXT NODE
IS A CONVERSATION.

We are looking for land, materials, skills, and long-term collaborators. If you are working on water, food, shelter, repair, or media—and you want the work to compound—open a channel.

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