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Against Legibility in Public Space

What if the push to make every public space 'readable' is actually erasing the complexity that makes cities worth living in?

readable ≠ navigable

Observation

The crosswalk that leads nowhere

Found a crosswalk in downtown Flint that deposits you on a curb with no sidewalk. Just grass and a fence.

Infrastructure as broken promise
Observation

The Maintenance Question

Every design decision is also a maintenance decision. We almost never talk about it that way.

who pays to keep things working?
Observation

Materials that age honestly

Brick weathers. Vinyl pretends nothing happened. What does that say about the values embedded in material choices?

Patina is information. Vinyl is denial

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Built & Designed · Personal

Theseus

An epistemic engine that discovers connections, contradictions, and gaps across a growing body of research.

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Built & Designed · Genesee County Land Bank Authority

Compliance Portal

Designed and built an internal compliance tracking portal for the Genesee County Land Bank Authority, streamlining regulatory workflows and reporting.

Replaced 47 spreadsheets with one dashboard
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Index-API

The Django backend that powers Theseus and CommonPlace. PostgreSQL with pgvector for vector search, Redis task queues for async processing, ONNX Runtime for inference, Modal for GPU workloads.

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One API. Two products. Three task queues.

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