Learn
Follow a project, read working materials, or join a future orientation without promising labor.
Follow the Lantern.
Choose the part of the work that makes you curious, name what you may want to learn or bring, and leave a return path. Interest is welcome before certainty.
Imagining America · Davis · October 23–25, 2026
Lanterns to the Spiral Garden
Sahar is presenting a 75-minute participatory workshop on stewardship cycles for restoring collective spirit in the mucky middle. AACDI is one of the design practices being developed there.
Universal need. Specific lineage. Local translation.
Read the accepted session overview Go deeper into AACDISix clear ways to enter
Participation can begin smaller than a partnership.
A strong first step is specific enough to respond to, light enough to be real, and bounded enough to protect both people and the work.
Review
Bring disciplinary knowledge, lived experience, cultural relationship, or a needed boundary to the work.
Host
Explore a bounded gathering, field inquiry, design table, cohort, site study, or pilot with real authority and support.
Make
Contribute art, craft, facilitation, teaching, documentation, tools, materials, access, or care infrastructure.
Resource
Support stipends, accessibility, translation, materials, site access, professional review, or shared equipment.
Question
Bring a public issue, local condition, strained or changing container, news piece, or possibility that deserves careful inquiry.
Interest register
Leave a return path.
This form groups interest by project and contribution pathway so follow-up can be relevant. It is not a general mailing-list signup, application, or promise of selection.
What happens next
Interest becomes relationship through a bounded next step.
Responses can be gathered after the IA workshop and through the website, then sorted into learning, review, host, making, site, and resource pathways.
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Gather
Your selected projects and interests enter a private response register.
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Orient
Sahar can share the most relevant public page, question, or future gathering.
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Scope
If there is a real fit, the next conversation names roles, authority, resources, limits, and timing.
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Choose
Both sides decide whether to learn, review, host, support, build, wait, or close the loop.
Participation boundary
People are not disposable, and access is not unlimited. A response does not create membership, authority, endorsement, employment, confidentiality, emergency support, or permission to reproduce a framework. It creates one possible return path.