Digital interfaces aren't just instrumental, but constitutive of our realities: a world-making force that shapes perception, behavior, relation, and imagination. And yet, despite their centrality, their expressive and generative potentials remain largely constrained by dominant design paradigms grounded in efficiency, optimization, and control. The goal of this project is to create a framework for individuals and collectives to engage in a dialogue using the interface as language; a poetic endeavor to imagine other interfaces and thus other realities.

From here, our journey forks into two interconnected paths.

Path 1, 'DIGITAL INTERFACES', leads to a close examination of prevailing approaches to digital interface design, attending to the metaphors that structure them, the assumptions they embed, and the forms of subjectivity they quietly produce. We ask:
* What kinds of users these interfaces imagine?
* What modes of attention and agency they privilege?
* What forms of selfhood they reinforce through their logics of navigation, feedback, and control?

This inquiry reveals interfaces not as neutral tools, but as cultural and existential scripts— frameworks that shape how we perceive, decide, and relate. In this light, the question of interface design becomes ontological: WHAT KINDS OF BEING ARE THESE SYSTEMS PRODUCING?

Path 2, 'MAGINES' is the practical counter-movement: the elaboration of alternative metaphors and interface grammars to rehearse other ways of being.

MAGINES is a creative framework for exceeding technocratic constraints—a practice of speculative making that treats interfaces as sites of imagination, play, and becoming.

MAGINES approaches the interface as sites of creation and transformation. It explores how alternative grammars of navigation, relation, and experience might open space for imagination, play, and affect.

MAGINES asks: if interfaces shape what we can perceive, imagine, and become,—
what happens when we remake the interface itself?
What alternative grammars of navigation, relation, and experience become available?
What forms of attention, agency, and selfhood might emerge?
What else is possible?;
This is an open journey to imagine WHAT ELSE MIGHT WE BECOME?

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MAGINES engages digital interfaces not as neutral tools, but as linguistic material—reworking their grammar and syntax to expand what can be felt, imagined, and thought within the digital condition.

The digital interface is both the source and the expression of contemporary existential conditions, and is therefore uniquely suitable to address them.

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