I. ‘Creative Direction Agency’ for Humanity [concept]

Stealing the common primary physical ‘Way-finding’ lex-icon
as renewed symbolic form of identity for collective coherence in our ongoing transformative evolutionary project.

[RE-FIND ‘WAY’ = ‘WAY’ REFINED]

A renewed ‘Brand’ framing our interactive experience in reality, and thus our communications, as ‘Art’.
in order to establish appropriate social organization through collective wisdom seeking.

[‘search’ Value]

// Form through which ‘All’ flows

II. Social Sculpture [context]
Aesthetics of ‘Figuring it out’ // A Theatre of Figures

Design infrastructure for civic revaluation in commercial space.

A contextualized reflection of the ‘concept’ (welcome to the Process)
Instantiating physical practice for human inter-connection.
Building value through attentive meaningful relation.

EXIT as Civic Prototype: A New Framework for Cultural Infrastructure

Abstract

In an era marked by fractured attention, social disintegration, and ecological instability, humanity must evolve new forms of conscious coordination. This evolution cannot be purely technological or institutional—it must emerge through a shift in awareness, perception, and participation. It requires a reawakening of what binds us together as human.

To move forward, we need tools—cognitive, relational, and symbolic—that help us develop and refine these capacities.

EXIT is one such tool.

Not simply an art project or installation, EXIT is a symbolic infrastructure—a psychotechnological prototype designed to help us practice the necessary capacities to navigate this civilizational threshold. It is a form of public metaphysics that is existentially, psychologically, and environmentally grounded—naturalized in the built world we already inhabit.

EXIT is a civic prototype: a symbolic technology for distributed cognition, shared direction, and collective presence. It reframes space as a framework for meta-awareness—calling us into remembrance of our participation in the unfolding of shared reality. It is a reminder that we are always in transition. That we are exiting together.

Symbolically, it represents a new kind of metaphysical infrastructure—grounded not in doctrine, but in design. Not imposed, but offered. EXIT helps rebind us into the existential process with clarity and care. It gestures toward a post-religious sacred—unbound from dogma and returned to embodied participation.

Introduction: Reclaiming Space as Shared Meaning

Cities have long been sites of exchange—not only of goods, but of meaning. Yet the dominant model of cultural infrastructure remains tied to product-driven commerce, passive placemaking, and symbolic fragmentation. EXIT offers an alternative: a public framework that uses symbolic cues, participatory design, and aesthetic ritual to scaffold the connective tissue between people, place, and purpose.

This approach aligns with the work of thinkers like John Vervaeke, who frames our current crisis not only as economic or ecological, but as one of meaning itself. Vervaeke argues that our collective disorientation stems from the collapse of ritual, shared attention, and lived frameworks of value. EXIT offers a contemporary remedy: a reintroduction of symbolic scaffolding and participatory ritual as a civic practice—an embodied response to the meta-crisis.

The EXIT Signal as Trojan Horse

The word EXIT already exists as a ubiquitous signal—embedded in every building, silently pointing toward thresholds. It is universally recognized, yet rarely considered. EXIT reclaims and reframes this symbol as a metaphysical reminder: that we are always in movement, always becoming, always transitioning through meaning.

By rooting this intervention in a familiar and legible form, EXIT introduces a cognitive layer into the perceptual commons—activating new symbolic meaning within everyday space. It offers a subtle but powerful intervention into how we read and respond to our environments.

This process resonates with Iain McGilchrist’s work on the divided brain. Where the left hemisphere tends to abstract, isolate, and fixate, the right hemisphere is attuned to wholeness, context, and the living moment. EXIT aims to restore right-hemispheric awareness within architecture—creating relational, symbolic spaces that reconnect perception with participation.

From Commercial Venue to Existential Service

EXIT is not a brand. It is not a commodity. It is a civic service—a cultural function instantiated through space, design, and presence. It builds hybrid venues: part café, part gallery, part philosophical commons. These spaces operate as thresholds—contexts for shared awareness, dialogical participation, and distributed cognition.

EXIT reframes art as a civic language—not as personal expression or institutional critique, but as symbolic communication. It opens a public forum for participatory philosophy, where collective meaning-making becomes a lived, aesthetic, and relational practice.

In a world saturated with content, EXIT prioritizes wisdom—through physical interaction, shared silence, embodied attention. It is an institutional prototype for cultural orientation, collective learning, and existential grounding.

Thinkers like Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jordan Hall, and others in the civilization design community speak of the need for “generator functions”—cultural frameworks that support coherence, sense-making, and intersubjective integrity. EXIT is such a generator. It cultivates relevance, orientation, and shared symbolic context in a world of noise.

Toward Civic Meta-Infrastructure

What if cultural infrastructure was funded like transit or public libraries?
What if cities invested in public frameworks that do not extract attention, but return it?
EXIT proposes a new category: cognitive civic infrastructure—a symbolic architecture designed not for content delivery, but for meaning cultivation.

Educational theorist Zachary Stein has called for “metastable attractors”—structures that stabilize transformation amid chaos. EXIT is one such attractor. It does not dictate values. It holds space for the formation of shared ones. It stabilizes presence.

In a city like Boston—with its historic civic and philosophical lineage—EXIT has the potential to become precedent: the first urban node in a new kind of cultural infrastructure, funded not by product, but by purpose.

Conclusion: Phase Shift as Public Work

EXIT is not the solution. It is the signal.
It is a participatory structure for cultivating the capacities humanity needs next.

The shift we face is not just technological or political—it is symbolic, existential, relational. It is about how we see the system we are embedded within, and how we act inside it—with others, and with awareness.

EXIT invites that practice.
It offers the symbolic scaffolding for cultural reorientation.
It proposes a soft civic architecture for cultivating coherence, shared purpose, and collective becoming.

Let Boston be the place where that shift begins.

References
Vervaeke, J. (2019). Awakening from the Meaning Crisis [Lecture Series].
McGilchrist, I. (2009). The Master and His Emissary. Yale University Press.
Schmachtenberger, D., Hall, J., & collaborators. (n.d.). Civilization Redesign and the Meta-Crisis.
Stein, Z. (2021). Education in a Time Between Worlds. Bright Alliance.
Harris, T. (2019). The Social Dilemma [Documentary]. Center for Humane Technology.