Open World Research · Collection
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A small, reviewed public collection of research questions, patterns and field accounts. Every entry says where it stands and where it came from.
8 entries
What helps human possibility become actual?
The central inquiry of Open World: how something moves from could be into is, and what people can do to help.
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- Open question
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- 6 October 2026
Can perceiving possibility become a rigorous practice?
The proposed doctoral question: whether noticing latent possibilities, and studying how they become real, can be done with discipline.
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- Open question · proposed doctoral direction
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- 6 October 2026
Is eclosion always a good thing?
Something new crossing into reality is not automatically beneficial. Rupture, panic and closure belong in the study too.
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- Open question
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- 6 October 2026
Almost, Happening, Weave
A three-part way of recording fieldwork: what could have happened, what did, and what followed from it.
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- Working framework
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- 6 October 2026
MetaScene: the context becomes the content
Beneath what a scene appears to be about, a wider pattern of roles, permission and relationship is running. It can be made visible.
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- Working model from practice
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- 6 October 2026
Suspend, Proliferate, Distil, Devote
The four-movement sequence that recurs through Open World practice: innocence, wilderness, presence and reverence.
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- Practice pattern
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- 6 October 2026
Grace as a gate
In the Peculiarity Index, no amount of rarity or ingenuity can make up for an act that diminishes someone.
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- Instrument in development
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- 6 October 2026
Travelling without money
A founder's summary of journeys made to test whether a performer's and game designer's skills help a person read reality.
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- Founder account · summary only
- Published
- 6 October 2026
How to read these. A Research Question is something unresolved that evidence could bear on. A Pattern is a reusable model or practice, which may be provisional. A Field Account reports something that happened. Naming a pattern does not validate its effects.
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