Pilot sites and implementation

Real work, visible status, bounded claims.

Pilot Sites shows where the body of work is being developed, tested, adapted, or proposed. A site can inform the framework without becoming proof that every program is active, funded, transferable, or ready for replication.

A claim boundary for this register

Frameworks are not sites.

A named framework, publication, or program concept appears here only when there is a real development context, bounded implementation, or clearly labeled proposal. Its existence does not prove adoption, funding, completion, transferability, or organizational endorsement.

Category 01

Development Sites

Contexts where framework, institutional, methodological, or partnership architecture is still being assembled and tested.

In Development

Imagining America 2026 pathway · Davis, California

AACDI community-design interest circle

A recruitment and orientation pathway connected to Lanterns to the Spiral Garden, where participants can go deeper into AACDI through story, archives, art, symbols, communication, craft, trades, place-making, fair-share practices, and inhabitable design.

IA workshop interest and follow-up register
Portable Lantern Test and community-design questions
Specialist, host, maker, and community-review pathways
A future bounded design table or field inquiry

Evidence in handAn accepted IA 2026 session, a named AACDI doctrine, public project overview, original visual language, and a durable interest pathway exist.

Next credibility stepGather opt-in interest, identify a responsibly authorized host question, and scope a limited first inquiry with labor, credit, access, information, decision rights, evidence, and a review date named in advance.

AACDI, the Lantern Test, and the workshop architecture are developed by Sahar Tai-Seale. Interest does not imply selection, membership, host adoption, or permission to use community-held knowledge.

Open the AACDI project room

In Development

The Corner / SCHA · Davis, California

Cooperative housing systems development

A lived development context for resident orientation, governance documentation, shared-space stewardship, committee systems, participatory education, labor recognition, and conflict-accountability structures.

Resident and role pathways
Governance and agreement structures
Indoor–outdoor stewardship systems
Operational documentation

Evidence in handWorking documents, resident-facing structures, site observations, and active cooperative participation inform the system design.

Next credibility stepConfirm what can be documented publicly, with organizational authorization, participant privacy, and collaborator credit.

Framework and system design by Sahar Tai-Seale; site-specific learning is also informed by residents, committee participants, staff, facilitators, and organizational records. This summary does not publish participant details or confidential site data.

Category 02

Implementation Pilots

Bounded applications generating practical learning. A pilot label indicates active testing—not final validation or unrestricted permission to reproduce the method.

Active

Cooperative housing landscape · Davis, California

Lunisolar stewardship cycle

Seasonal observation, participatory site walks, task pathways, ecological indicators, maintenance rhythms, shared learning, and documented follow-through.

Site walks and seasonal review
Stewardship task pathways
Observation and handoff tools

Evidence in handA recurring practice structure is in use for observation, task selection, shared action, documentation, rest, and adaptation.

Next credibility stepDevelop a host-authorized case record with a clear time frame, baseline, participant roles, and evaluation questions.

Method architecture by Sahar Tai-Seale; local ecological knowledge and implementation learning credited to participating stewards where materials are released.

Pilot

Cooperative landscape pilot · Davis, California

Five-Element landscape audit practice

Early application of Five-Element ecological observation to water, soil, light, circulation, plants, animals, human use, maintenance, labor, resources, and restoration possibilities.

Landscape observation
Plant and material audit
Maintenance and restoration questions

Evidence in handAn early audit structure and site-based observations exist across ecological conditions, use, labor, materials, and maintenance.

Next credibility stepComplete specialist review, refine the instrument, and document a bounded audit with appropriate site authorization.

Five-Element Ecological Stewardship and audit architecture by Sahar Tai-Seale. Findings remain site-specific and do not substitute for regulated technical assessment.

Category 03

Proposed or Partner-Seeking Sites

Possibilities that require a host, site, funding, collaborators, governance, feasibility work, or a defined agreement before they can become active.

Proposed

South Davis / Mace–Willowbank–Grasslands study geography · no site selected

ARCS seasonal learning + stewardship corridor

A movable, permitted, resident-sustained garden-and-learning corridor where respite or seasonal shelter, sanitation, cooperative workspace, restoration-ecology training, a Commons Kiosk, public culture, and accessible movement can be tested together for one bounded season.

One-month or one-season reversible pilot scope
Resident, unhoused, disabled, ecological, parks, labor, public-health, neighborhood, and host review
Accessible circulation, sanitation, shelter, task decks, open school, café or co-op shop, and public evaluation
Separate agreements for visiting, voluntary learning, paid work, restoration tasks, and any authorized overnight use

Evidence in handA founder-authored concept, program braid, opening-gate checklist, sample seasonal schedule, public-benefit question, accessible site imagery, and South Davis corridor field study exist. No parcel, permit, campsite, budget, operator, participant cohort, or agency adoption is represented.

Next credibility stepFund a feasibility table and identify a willing landholder and sanctioning body before selecting a site: confirm the legal pathway, ecological and access baseline, resident advisory role, operator, insurance, sanitation, staffing, closure budget, evaluation agreement, and conditions under which the pilot must not open.

ARCS—American Regional Community Systems centers—is a personal concept by Sahar Tai-Seale. It is not an adopted City of Davis, Parks and Recreation, Housing for All Davis, UC Davis, or partner proposal.

Open the ARCS concept room

Seeking Site

Location to be determined

Refugia demonstration site

A place-based node for sanctuary, ecological repair, cooperative learning, culture, livelihood pathways, and stewardship practice.

Site criteria and feasibility
Host and governance model
Ecological and social baseline

Evidence in handA named proposition, framework relationship, and preliminary site criteria exist; no host site or completed program is represented.

Next credibility stepIdentify a possible host, complete feasibility and governance work, and define a bounded first phase.

Seeking Collaborators

Partner location or hybrid cohort

Cooperative College cohort

A bounded learning cohort for cooperative readiness, shared governance, role practice, relational infrastructure, and applied stewardship.

Host organization
Participant support
Facilitation and evaluation partnership

Evidence in handA curriculum architecture, developmental pathway, and pilot concept exist; no current cohort is represented.

Next credibility stepSecure a host and collaborators, define learner support and authority, and agree on evaluation before recruitment.

Proposed

Site and inventory not yet established

Five-Element Landscape Supply interface

A future landscape-supply and education interface connecting ecological interpretation with plants, propagation materials, habitat resources, tools, repair materials, maps, labels, guides, and stewardship kits.

Supply and propagation partners
Inventory and fulfillment model
Educational and audit interfaces

Evidence in handThe interface concept and intended resource categories are documented; no current inventory, store, or fulfillment system is represented.

Next credibility stepIdentify supply and propagation partners, test the educational interface, and establish inventory and stewardship standards.

Partner with integrity

A proposal is an invitation to scope—not a promise already made.

A useful site conversation names decision-makers, land or facility access, community relationships, funding, risk, desired outcomes, local expertise, authorship, data, public communication, and who will maintain the work after launch.

Discuss a site or pilot