The fixed instrument of the Improbable Engine: six strands winding the torus, one per axis of the 64-vertex sovereignty lattice — the five Lattice Labs plus the knowledge hearth. Whoever runs the engine, these do not change; collaborators bring pages, not axes.
- Reclaiming the Interface (Olia Lialina) — protection, amber
- Playful Misuse of everyday software (viola he) — delegation, sapphire
- Obscure Detritus (Alex Declino) — compute, violet
- Minor Indexes (selfservice.studio) — memory, rose
- The knowledge hearth (the federation) — connection, teal
- Solidarity Economies (Sepp Eckenhaussen and Geert Lovink) — value, emerald
The lab-to-axis seating is conjectural and labelled so in the engine's own data. The count is the load-bearing part: five labs plus the hearth equals the six stratum-1 roots of the lattice. The hearth lands on connection — the network axis — which is also where the research's edge-structure claim lives: the wiki's role at the festival is the bonds, not a sixth node.
The hearth manifest
Which wiki sites feed each strand in this copy of the engine (the proto hearth-manifest, data/wiki-sites.json, 2026-07-28). The engine reads sites LIVE from the farm and bakes nothing; collaborators replace these with their own farm's hosts — bring pages, not axes:
- connection — transmediale · lattice.myth.garden (remote) · mitch.lattice.myth.garden (remote) · guide · story · tomes · grimoire
- memory — atlas · library · chronicle
- delegation — skill · plugin · spellbook
- compute — game42 · harness
- protection — dtg · research
- value — city · lexon