A long tabletop model of a south Indian coast in felt and clay: red-roofed houses on a laterite ridge, coconut palms, a strip of backwater with two canoes, a sandy beach.

Gather around the work.

Est. 2025 · Udupi → Mumbai → the coast

Come sit at the fire
A felt diorama: nine small red-and-white figures around a round table with tiny laptops, outside a red brick café whose sign reads ArQ Meetup Café.
ArQ Meetup Café · population nine, plus whoever's late

A real problem.

People who'd never share a room.

Enough time.

Code stopped being the hard part. Getting those three into one place is the whole job.

02 · The rooms

Four rooms, each smaller than the last.

  1. A felt diorama of a rooftop at dusk: eight small figures on stools in a loose circle, one standing and holding up a sheet of paper, a chalkboard easel, a string of warm bulbs.
    01 · One evening

    Paper Club

    One paper. One question: what would we build from this?

  2. A felt diorama of a café corner at night: ten small figures shoulder to shoulder at a long table with tiny laptops, a cork board of sticky notes, a pendant lamp, a dark window.
    02 · One dinner

    Builder's Café

    Twenty laptops. Your blocker on the board.

  3. A felt dollhouse with its front wall removed: downstairs a long table of figures working, a kitchen with two cooking, upstairs one asleep and one reading, two talking on the roof terrace under bulbs, a palm and a tiny motorbike outside.
    03 · Two days

    The House

    One roof. No schedule.

  4. A felt diorama of a backwater: mangrove roots, a wooden canoe, a fisherman pointing across the water while three figures crouch beside him with a clipboard, a camera and a laptop; two egrets, a red survey flag, a thatched shelter.
    04 · A season

    Field Projects

    One real problem, one real place, in the open.

No one is paid to come and no one pays to enter. You move inward by contributing.

Southern coast, India

We rent a house and invite people who would never normally share a room. Two days, no schedule.

The place joins the table: the fisherman who reads the backwaters better than any satellite, the dance that ends at dawn, the meal that takes six hours.

Four seasons. Four houses. Four parts of the world.

I want in
A floating island in felt and clay: one coastal house with a red tiled roof and a verandah, two coconut palms, laundry on a line, six little figures around a campfire, a canoe on a strip of backwater, and a tiny red panda on the roof ridge. Laterite rock and roots hang beneath.

04 · The record

Every room leaves a record.

rooms
15+
people through them
1,200+
cities, two countries
12
A small red panda made of felt crouches on a rocky shore, looking at a fossil pressed into the stone.
Life rarely survives intact. It survives as structure.

Film, field notes, code: whatever the room ships, we publish. Even if you never come, you can watch what happens when different kinds of smart share a house.

The full record Field notes