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Epistemic Scaffolding

The creation of tools, visualizations, interfaces, and conceptual frameworks that extend perception beyond human scale — making the invisible visible, whether planetary processes, latent AI structures, or mutual aid networks.

Appears in 5 texts

2025-11-22 A mutual aid map for New Yorkers "The technology did not create these networks — it simply made them visible and accessible, allowing them to activate at unprecedented scale."2025-02-24 Introducing FedAid.info "This project reaffirmed a core belief: technology, and specifically Artificial Intelligence, when thoughtfully applied, can be a powerful enabler."2025-01-28 Network Theory of Care: Lessons from Los Angeles "FireAid was a testament to the potential for technological augmentation of patterns of trust: flattening resources onto a map opened up new lines of sight, patterns of trust, and potentials for neighborship."2024-10-30 Planetary Realism "My hypothesis is that by recognizing that the spheres exist in totalities that often extend far beyond human perception, we can set out to build sensory scaffolds that bring them back into the human-visible realm."2024-08-04 Associative tools, thinking, and creativity "We can think of Semioscape as a kind of cognitive prosthetic for traveling through semantic space."