We don't make up the knowledge — it's already out there. On the block, at the table, in the juke joint. We just build the rides that let it travel: into domes, headsets, city walls, rooms it's never reached. One of us tells the story, the other wires it up. What comes out is stuff you can walk right into.
Folks already hold their own truth — on a porch, in a juke joint, at a market stall, around a table in Berlin. Our job ain't to speak for it. It's to build ways for it to get around — and leave behind something the next crew can run themselves, without us.
Vibes over feature lists. The first 30 seconds decide the whole room, so we build the feeling before we build the plumbing.
One voice, built to show up wherever — your phone, a wall on the block, a classroom, a pop-up dome, a planetarium, a giant Deep Space room, a headset.
Open tools, kits ready to roll. The ride should outlast the trip — and belong to the people it's carrying.
real screens, real worlds · tap for the score
Real 360°, sound that moves around you, and a thread that carries you from one place to the next. Poke around on your phone, chill on a desktop, or stand up in a headset. Hover one and watch it come alive.
A juke joint where the players show up and actually play. Blues, church, the crossroads — all of it.
Go there →Barbershop, youth center, the yard. Neighborhood folks you walk right between.
Go there →Stalls, sellers, and all the little stories in between them.
Go there →The round table where the whole world showed up to answer the hard questions.
Go there →A 360° film circling the statue built out of equations. The archive becomes a place you stand in.
Go there →Every place, strung together by the threads Asili hears between 'em. Step in and ride one across the world.
Enter the web →These six? Ours. But here's the real move — we built the thing so you can make your own. Start from one of these, drop in your people and your music, thread it together, share the link. And we don't just hand it over — we help you run it.
Build your own world →Run it across thousands of voices and it starts catching echoes — where a farmer in the Delta and an elder in Aotearoa are, under all the words, basically saying the same thing. Then it lets you ride that thread: from one person, to the moment they echo, to a community clear across the world carrying the same thing.
That's the difference between an archive and a living one. The knowledge was always connected — we just make the connections something you can walk.
Back in 2006, a round table in Berlin — same square where they once burned books — pulled together a hundred-plus thinkers from fifty countries to take on humanity's hardest questions. We took all of it and built a living, searchable space that runs right on your phone: every answer a star you can walk toward, every voice still in the room.
Real voices from the Table of Free Voices — free to share (Creative Commons)
Location audio, voices you trigger with light, little creatures hiding in your hallway. When the whole world's the venue, your phone's the projector — and just walking around is the controller.
Take a walk with headphones on and a whole choir of real voices rises up out of the ground around you — each one in its own spot, fading in as you get close. Drops anywhere you're standing.
Take the walk ↗A dad-and-son monster hunt. Point the light, something shows itself. 45 lurkers hiding in the dark corners of your own house.
Start the hunt ↗Shine some light on the world and old voices wake up — a little archive that only talks when you bring it into the light. Dozens of voices, four collections.
cooking in the studioNone of this is a one-and-done. Point our tools at what you already got — your people, your music, your spot — and they carry it the rest of the way. On a phone. In an afternoon.
Start from a world we've already built — Clarksdale, the Parramore block, the Puebla market — and make your own on top of it. Drop in voices and music, thread them together, share the link. No code, right from your phone.
See what it makes ↗Stand your finished work up in any space without being there — slide one voice from a phone, to a community wall, to a planetarium, to a giant museum wall, and watch the room change around it.
Try it ↗The part that listens. It reads a whole community's voices and quietly finds where they echo one another — then shows you the thread, always traceable back to the person who said it.
Explore Asili ↗A daily read on the mood of public life — gathered from many places and reported back to you like a weather report. What's warming up, what's about to break.
See today ↗Turn any word into living type — letters that coil, drift, and catch fire. The moving words on this very page are made with it. Shareable, and made together in real time.
In the studioThe quiet engine underneath it all. It takes a finished story and gets it ready to play big — in a dome, a planetarium, a festival wall — exactly the way you made it, sound and all.
Almost readyIf you build things, here's the technical layer. If you don't, you never have to see it.
An open-source Python library packages a story into real venue formats — dome master,
MPCDI, ambisonic & ADM BW64 audio — with provenance and consent recorded as
first-class data. It writes to planetarium systems (Digistar, SkySkan, Zeiss, Spitz) rather than
replacing them. Public release & repositories are being readied.
The immersive worlds run on Three.js + WebXR — Meta Quest, phone, desktop, nothing to install. Asili is one shared engine behind many front-ends, so a new kind of app never means a new brain. Everything is static and ships on Cloudflare Pages.
Every piece is the same move at a different stage: take what people already know, find where it echoes, carry it into a room.
Real people, real footage, consent and credit up front. The archive is the ground the rest grows out of.
Asili reads across all of it and pulls the threads — the meaning that was always there, now you can actually see it.
Same voice, re-landed — on a phone, a dome, a museum wall, a headset. Made once, at home anywhere.
A culture of learning, digging, and actually showing up for each other. New ways to pull knowledge up and build on it. Curriculums you step inside. Relationships that outlast the project. And always, always messing with whatever medium's coming next.
Screens glowing in a room in Pawtucket. A whiteboard covered in the next idea. A classroom at MIT and FGCU. A juke joint in Clarksdale, a market in Puebla, a block in Parramore. This is the culture underneath the tools — two people, always listening, always learning, always building.
Brandon & AJ, in the field · hover / tap a moment
We're Brandon and AJ. We run the tech and the media side of all this, and we're always hunting the next room to carry a voice into — a dome, a block, a classroom, a festival, a museum. Got something? Holler at us.
or just email us — inclusiveknow@gmail.com