FORME Journal
Ideas behind the system.
Selected writing, research and experiments around authorship, licensing, collaborative realization, local production and the evolving role of AI within FORME.
Research
Formal publications
Facilitative AI: Maintaining the Conditions for Human Collaboration
A conceptual framework for AI that supports shared understanding, reflection and continuity in human collaboration while preserving participant agency and productive disagreement.
A Computational Model of Commitment Under Uncertainty in Collaborative Design (Version 1.0)
A formal computational model exploring how commitment develops under uncertainty in collaborative design, and how design systems might respond proportionally as decisions become more consequential.
Selected Journal
Essays and experiments
Systems & Production
Fashion Before Fabric
A reflection on what happens when fashion begins with authored design rather than fabric-led production and inventory.
Design Without Factories: A New System for Making Objects
Exploring a production model where design can circulate before centralized manufacturing and move into realization through distributed capability.
Technology Isn’t the Problem. System Design Is.
A systems argument about why technological capability alone does not determine whether a design economy becomes more extractive or more adaptive.
Who Gets Paid for Fashion? Part 2: Do We Need Another Shopping App?
Asking what value shopping intermediaries actually add, and whether technology could support better fashion decisions rather than simply inserting itself into the transaction.
Licensing & Interpretation
From “Get the Look” to Licensed Adaptation
Moving away from copy-first fashion culture toward licensed interpretation, adaptation and authored continuity.
Beauty Happens in the Spaces In Between
On the creative value of interpretation, collaboration and the space between an authored work and its eventual realization.
Platform & AI
The Platform That Steps Back
Thinking through a platform that supports decisions and relationships without trying to dominate every interaction.
The Platform Begins to Remember
An early exploration of memory, continuity and contextual intelligence as FORME becomes more than a sequence of isolated transactions.
Ongoing work
Research continues alongside the platform.
New papers, field notes and selected essays will be added as FORME develops through testing, collaborative practice and implementation.