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Planetary Compendium
An interactive platform of case studies on planetary governance, built with the Berggruen Institute — mapping the architectures and experiments shaping how life on Earth might be organised and sustained.
Most governance is scaled to a nation or a city. The crises that matter most now — climate, biodiversity, migration, orbital debris — are scaled to the planet, and the Compendium exists to ask what governance built for that scale could even look like.
The problem
The Planetary Compendium, a joint undertaking between the Berggruen Institute and Dark Matter Labs, treats planetary governance as something to be collected rather than theorised in the abstract: an evolving wunderkammer of historic precedents, live experiments, and speculative futures, from lunar governance crises to the long repair of Owens Lake.
What I built
As a developer on the project, I helped build the interactive platform carrying these case studies — a system of navigable “connectors” linking themes like diplomacy, finance, and sovereignty across the collection, so a visitor moves through planetary governance the way the ideas actually relate to each other, rather than through a flat index. Built alongside fellow developers Andrea Zaccuri, Francesco Castrovilli, and Alessandro Miracapillo.
Where it landed
A civic and pedagogical tool as much as a research artifact — presented through text, design, and sound, inviting visitors to trace their own path toward collective thriving among humans and non-humans.