AI + Philosophy
MMXXVICan Machines Reason?
An essay and interactive demonstration testing whether large models perform inference or imitation.
Amara Osei
Tesla's Visionaries
Projects
Where disciplines collide.
The Akademeia asks members to combine what they know. These are the results — essays, machines, atlases and instruments made where two fields meet.
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Engineering + Environment
MMXXVIDesigning a Sustainable City
A district masterplan with energy, water and transit modelling for a coastal city of 200,000.
Rafael Duarte
Archimedes' Inventors
Programming + Art
MMXXVGenerative Renaissance
Plotter drawings generated from the geometric construction rules of quattrocento painting.
Yuki Tanabe
Da Vinci's Prodigies
History + Geography
MMXXVMapping the Silk Road
A layered atlas tracing goods, pathogens and vocabulary along two millennia of exchange.
Idris Karim
Ibn Sina's Seekers
Physiology + Data
MMXXVIThe Grammar of Motion
Motion-capture analysis of sprint mechanics, written for coaches rather than statisticians.
Lena Vogt
Achilles' Warriors
Astronomy + Craft
MMXXVQuiet Instruments
Building a working reflecting telescope from ground glass, with a log of every failure.
Noor Haddad
Galileo's Observers