Where systems
get stuck, we read the field.
The I·V·O lens makes visible what a field makes possible, which relations are changing, and who or what is making distinctions. This site contains research, tools and visualisations where that way of looking is put to concrete use.
- Mental Health & Recovery — Recovery processes, group dynamics, stress regulation and ecosystemic practice.
- Organisations & Teams — Stalled collaboration, silo formation, change processes and informal dynamics.
- Visualisations & Simulations — Making complex behaviour visible through interactive models and emergent systems.
Also applied within biofeedback, education, AI and systems research.
Open to collaboration and research.
The IVO lens in eight domains →AI misalignment may not be primarily a specification problem, but a structural lack of observer position inside proxy optimization.
What has emerged
Five directionsSailing as a living system model. Wind as possibility space, course as relational change and presence as observation. Small groups at sea as a space for recovery, slowing down and new dynamics.
An experimental interface that makes collective dynamics visible and measurable in real time. Hundreds of units move through an asymmetric field — the system reads itself and names what it sees.
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A minimal communication protocol for states of being. Three symbols. Language-independent, machine-readable, suitable for wearables and AI analysis. With trends, events and pattern recognition.
Ten interactive installations that make field dynamics visible. The Body Compass in collaboration with TU Delft. The IVO State Logger as a research prototype. And a landmark on the Tweede Maasvlakte as a vision.
The canonical public archive of the I·V·O Framework. 15 documents, including the v2.1 lens prompt, design rationale and research proposal. Deposited at Zenodo. Free to read, study and cite.
The lens itself lives on .org
The I·V·O lens, the articles on cosmology, consciousness and systems, and the interactive visualisations as a digital playground — that is the thinking side of this work.
design-by-authenticity.org →