About Field · the edges of practice
The life of learning, made into places you can enter.
I work with schools on how they learn. Field is the edge of that practice, where the methods meet technology, art and the outdoors. Keep scrolling and you walk through it.
In the trees
The Atrium
The methods come from the Atrium, the body of work I build for schools. They are ways of holding real dialogue, designing curriculum, connecting professional learning to strategy, coaching, and telling what a school has learned.
They are in use. The case studies and the longer writing about each one belong on my main site.
At the edge
What Field is
Field is the edge of that practice. Here I take one method and ask what it becomes as an experience: something you can step into and question.
A method written down as a protocol has its place. What I am after here is what happens to a person inside one.
The redwoods
Why it looks like this
Years ago I walked out of a redwood forest onto open ground. There was a creek to get over and a meadow to cross, and beyond it the Pacific. I have thought about that walk ever since.
The pictures on this site are made from it. They are generated from my memory of the place, so nobody should go looking for the log.
Where a forest meets open ground, more grows than in either one alone. Field sits at an edge like that, where work with schools meets technology, art and the outdoors.
Crossing
How an exploration works
Each exploration is a piece to touch or to watch, with a short note on what I tried and how it was built. As the longer case studies are written on my main site, each exploration will point to its own.
Some pieces are made for a browser. Some are made in TouchDesigner, for a wall or a room. The tools will change from one to the next.
I label each one plainly as a study, an experiment or a field note. Most of what is listed here is not built yet, and it says so.
Seeing
What technology is for
I think AI can help us see patterns we could not see before, and engage with them in new ways, including through human experience itself.
In these pieces the system proposes and people decide. You can ask where a connection came from, and you can say no to it. Keeping that agency with the person is what the pieces are built for.
Walking
Who is walking
The small figure with the backpack is me, Scott Patrick Williams. I design learning systems for schools: curriculum, professional learning and coaching, and the platforms that sustain them.
That work is on my main site. Here I get to be outdoors.