Hello! 👋

My research investigates the intersection of computing, human-system interfaces, and emancipatory politics. I am interested in the potential of computing as a medium for thought, as a tool for collective action, and as a means of emancipation.

My current focus is basic research into the nature of digital organisation, developing theoretical toolkits to improve shared infrastructure, and applying this research to the design of new systems and protocols which support the self-organisation of knowledge and computational artifacts.

My work

Alongside my independent research I am a researcher at Block Science building knowledge organisation infrastructure and an engineer at websim. I am also part of the nascent Liberatory Computing collective, ¼ of Tentpole, ½ of folkjs, occasional collaborator with ECSA and a co-organiser of the OCWG.

Get in touch

I am on Bsky @OrionReed, Twitter @OrionReedOne, Mastodon @orion@hci.social and GitHub @orionreed. You can also shoot me an email me@orionreed.com

Writing

1. Canvas Research Memo (shared internally @ BlockScience)
2. Scoped Propagators: A programming model for spatial canvases
3. Objects as Reference: Toward Robust First Principles of Digital Organization

Talks & Podcasts

1. User Agency in Other People's Websites @ JOTB
2. Scoped Propagators @ ACM SPLASH/LIVE
3. Spatial Canvases: Towards an Integration Domain for HCI @ TfT Rocks 2024 (slides)
4. Knowledge Organisation Infrastructure Demo @ NPC Denver
5. Demos @ SPC Demo Night
6. Malleable Interfaces @ Intelligent Instruments Lab
7. Vaporware Podcast Ep. 5

Things I made recently

1. Many experiments under folkjs
2. CRDT DOM sync attribute
3. Data streaming with QR + audio backchanelling
4. Bi-directional QR code data streaming
5. Zoomable hypertext
6. Tiny 3D HTML/DOM viewer
7. DOM to canvas translation
8. Constraint-based graph layout in tldraw
9. Physics in tldraw