About

IRLProximity is a spatial research surface that turns Are.na blocks into programmable, multiplayer grids.

It sustains complexity instead of flattening it. Unlike "second brains" or productivity apps, it is a living interface where ideas are arranged in space, worked with in real time, and cultivated together. IRLProximity transforms collecting into shared memory and living arguments.

Interfacing Research Laboratory is a design technology practice that uses prototyping and manufacturing to interface with complexity.
We work with materials, systems, and infrastructures to turn ideas into artifacts with meaning and presence.

Design is a process of alignment, where human intention meets technical systems and imaginaries take tangible form. We begin in supply chains, pedagogies, and ecologies, moving toward clarity by shaping objects that embody these relations.

Prototyping is inquiry, manufacturing is translation, and world-building is rehearsal. Each artifact is an interface — a point of contact for thinking with and through complexity.

IRL: making ideas tangible as interfaces for new worlds.