We are an interdisciplinary research lab that reimagines data practices through experiential engagement. Our core premise is that data are not merely passive records but active agents shaping our world—physical entities with tangible impacts rather than abstract representations.

Where conventional approaches treat data literally as “things given”—we propose a shift to acta, or “things done.” This change in perspective highlights the agency of data and its entanglement with the social and material environments in which they are generated.

Through designerly and artistic experimentation and intervention, we challenge the conventional separation between data and the world. Our projects range from community-based environmental monitoring to developing new sensing technologies that capture previously overlooked forms of information. By bridging grassroots science, design practice, and socially-engaged intervention, we create frameworks for understanding complex systems through their own material expressions.