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S Seed Canvas

Grow raw ideas into thinking that is
distinctly you

Most of your best thoughts dissolve before you can develop them. When everyone is generating content, it's the quality of your thinking that sets you apart.

Seed Canvas is a place for you to hold those thoughts and, with one good question at a time, grow them into essays and writing that represents you.

Technology where it belongs: supporting creativity, not convergence.

The tool itself

Three ways in, matched to how you feel

01 Sow after inspiration
Thoughts?

Just off the eastern wall on the ground floor of the Mitchell Reading Room are a row of index card drawers. Each drawer has a brass knob and a miniature brass-bordered paper plaque that identifies the extent of its guidance: MUNCIPAL GOVT — TAHITI ⸻ MURRAY, M, then MURRAY, N ⸻ MUSIC, Acoustics, and so on.

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02 Water to reflect

Just off the eastern wall of the Mitchell Reading Room are a row of index card drawers. Each drawer has a brass knob and a miniature brass-bordered paper plaque…


What fascinates you about this observation? Is there something in it that makes you want to ask more?

I wonder how complete or incomplete their knowledge was. Was there more serendipity when things were organised alphabetically? Was it more possible to know everything there was to know about the Murrays in Sydney at that time?

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03 Harvest to synthesise

The five questions

Q1 · Tension
Where's the friction in this?
Things were slower (sorting manual cards), but you discovered novel things along the way.
Q2 · Truth claim
What do you actually believe?
We've removed serendipity from our design vocabulary and our lives.
Q3 · Opening image
A scene the reader can stand in.
The row of drawers in the Mitchell Reading Room, brass-knobbed, plaque reading MUNCIPAL GOVT — TAHITI ⸻ MURRAY, M.
Q4 · Reader · in flight
Who is this for, exactly?
The busy young professional racing to keep up with modern tech, adding more tools, at risk of missing the serendipitous encounters coming their way.
Q5 · Turn
Where does the piece pivot?
…awaiting

The brief, assembling

The inefficient joys of alphabetical ordering

Truth claim

We've removed serendipity from our design vocabulary and our lives.

Opening image

Brass-knobbed drawers in the Mitchell Reading Room — MUNCIPAL GOVT — TAHITI ⸻ MURRAY, M.

Reader

Busy young professional, racing to keep up — at risk of missing the serendipitous encounters coming their way.

Turn

awaiting Q5 …

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More of your thinking.
Distinctly you.

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