An independent research lab exploring technology that nurtures equanimity.
Engagement makes us more reactive, less intentional. We design technology that nurtures equanimity instead: the balanced awareness that makes room for what matters past what feels good.
Can we design interfaces that sustain and cultivate equanimity?
- Secretariat. Ambient context for AI, stamped by humans.
- Zenborg. The whiteboard, made software.
Sovereignty over data is the foundation. Respecting attention is the moment-to-moment practice. Cultivating equanimity is the long-term outcome. Nine principles in three layers, each with a design test.
Closing the measurement gap is the lab's first investigation. Equanimity can be measured in people (EQUA-S; Dambrun, Juneau, Ricard). No instrument yet measures it passively in products. Solving that is where we are putting our weight.
Where awareness and equanimity are taught as the two wings of wisdom. We treat this lineage as a working hypothesis: technology may be able to support, in small ways, what the practice has long cultivated. Whether it can is what we are here to find out.
If you are building something in this direction, or thinking about it, write to the lab.