8 June '26

This wide-ranging session, held in the hours before Apple‘s Worldwide Developer Conference, circled around a single underlying question: what is the right relationship between a person, their knowledge, and a designed space — physical or in XR. Conversation moved fluidly between flow states and active engagement, the perceptual default of the human visual system, contested histories and multiple narratives, immersive environments as persuasive “atmospheres,” and the craft of guiding rather than overwhelming a reader. A live demonstration of marked-text “sculpting” in Author grounded the more philosophical threads, while recurring touchstones — the Vatican, Rome, Kashmir, and Stewart Brand‘s How Buildings Learn — kept returning the group to how spaces shape understanding. https://futuretextlab.info/2026/06/08/8-june-26/