Independent project experiments
Small projects.
Bigger questions.
A farm track. A mountain refuge. A crossing for wildlife. Small, concrete situations make it easier to ask how plans, risks, resources and organisations fit together.
Three places to start
Follow a question into a project.
Change a condition, compare a choice, or follow a connection. Each enquiry makes a different part of project work visible.
01 / The farm track
What happens when two plans need the same lane?
Pour the foundations before the cows take the lane. Explore how project tasks and outside activity compete for the same resources.
02 / The mountain refuge
How do connected work packages become a plan?
Build a refuge halfway up a cliff, including its awkward handovers. Follow the processes, dependencies and alternative ways to complete the work.
03 / The wildlife crossing
Can we deliver the whole promise?
Reconnect two habitats across a busy road. A crossing needs guidance, observation and a way to build it: see what those choices require of one another.
Other questions begin with a wall, a tunnel, a programme or a different view of the same work.
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A recent experiment 28 September 2026
The books are on the boat.
The jetty is out of use.
Can two coordinators agree a delivery plan? In The Island Reading Room, an inspection report changes the next response. Follow the questions and replies, then see what remains when their internal conversation is hidden.
Visit the reading roomA finite model of policies in conversation · Geometry of Interaction
How to read these experiments
A small world.
A question you can inspect.
Start with the situation. Try the model. Then look at the source, the assumptions and the limits of what it shows.
These are exploratory models and working explanations. A result inside an experiment is a reason to investigate further; it does not establish what will happen on a real project.