personal – indiebio

8 April 20268 April 2026

Danish Tiny Houses

Backstory: I bought my first physical Etsy thing! (previously only digital files for papercraft): the Miniature Tiny House made by Turkish company Terrarium Stories. The seller and I started chatting (because I am now also intrigued by Turkey) and I asked if they have considered making the Klein A45, you know, the tiny house I am obsessed with. They said not yet, but they are taking a short trip to Denmark soon = The Bjarke Ingels Group, who designed the A45, is Danish. This conversation reminded me of when I got to see the A45 up close during a tiny house exhibition in Denmark in 2022.

the little house kit I ordered on Etsy. It hasn’t arrived yet – pic from Etsy.

27 March 202627 March 2026

Fever duck dream

I dreamt a lot last night, take that for eating roast duck just before bed!

Update: the song for this (not in the dream, but it captures the zeitgeist): Don’t Take the Money by the Bleachers:

20 January 202620 January 2026

Building an eco-feminist metaverse

This is chewing through the philosophy of the biosphere metaverse project. It’s still messy, and trigger warning, it involves mention of patriarchy and ecofeminism. In more developed framing it won’t mention these to avoid the hangups around the words. Probably won’t mention metaverse either for the same reason.

outline:

Background: why does patriarchy persist
Pathological defences against loss applied to our relationship with nature
Repairing relationship through association, ways of listening
A globally accessible ecosystem of integrated data
Case study: UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR)
Funding

13 January 202613 January 2026

Care-giving, care-taking, and the feminist metaverse

In the past week, friends have had intertwining conversations that I want to try weave together here. The overarching theme is the power of information to make care, visible. To make the connections and relationships between everything visible. If this in turn has the power to change anything, well, that is another thing and where the post unravels towards the end.

13 November 202518 November 2025

Personal logo

I’ve been meaning to update my logo for a while. I am no longer in Africa, I am no longer focused on mainly water, and the x in the bubble, while one could argue is still relevant, related to TEDx which is also long gone. It’s part of a whole personality re-sync (to quote tim). I like my old logo, I like the elements in it, it still inspires me. It just needs to grow.

2 October 202531 March 2026

Sci-Curious – final

A month ago I submitted this project to the MCSA-PF fellowship call. It is a very competitive call, the chance of success is about 9.6%! I really enjoyed the process of unpacking my idea to the core essence so I consider it a win anyway. (but man I want the fellowship so bad!)

Cultivating scientific curiosity: Digitally-mediated approaches for enhancing engagement and behavioral transformation.

The overall aim of Sci-Curious is to develop a method that cultivates scientific curiosity in
participants, leading to better engagement in and between contributor groups who deal with politically charged scientific questions. This will be achieved through developing a digitally mediated deep canvassing method that incorporates scientific challenges through digital knowledge infrastructures. This method balances a feminist ethic of care with critical accountability. By bridging scientific rigor with transformative societal engagement, this project promises to unlock new pathways for addressing intractable scientific challenges and affecting societal transformation.

3 September 20253 September 2025

Project 6.0: Sci-Curious

Cultivating scientific curiosity: Digitally-mediated approaches for promoting societal transformation through scientific curiosity and capacity.

21 August 202521 August 2025

MetaPlay: Biosphere reserves, glass cliffs and the project in a sentence

The sentence, drumroll, is:

Any approaches that embrace a feminist ethic of care need to balance that with scientific rigour and accountability.

(OK, it doesn’t talk about how to project addresses that, and what the aim and objectives are. So not really the project in a sentence. But it’s the crux of it.)

7 August 20257 August 2025

What we play is life – 5.2.1. it’s been emotional.

30 June 202530 June 2025

Community engagement using cats as metaphor

This came from a Friday evening casual chat in the OMI group discord, where we were wondering about how to retain members amidst different personalities, while attracting, and more importantly, retaining new members. We spoke about herding cats, and that you don’t herd cats, you throw some tuna where you want them to go – the tuna being the shared vision that people want to be part of.

But this wasn’t the full story, and fuelled by my most recent project iteration (blog forthcoming but this note pad has rough thoughts) and a bit of beer, I thought, it’s not just about tuna. So I shared my cat situation along with how I think this translates to community management. Writing it up sober, I still think it works well. Also adding cat-specific details for posterity.