Version Control: Towards a More Situated Stack

Emerging from Ireland’s Shannon Estuary—an influential site of economic firsts and regulatory innovation—this body of work reimagines computational infrastructure as slow, situated, and publicly accountable. Refusing the logic of constant uptime, it proposes systems that adjust to environmental rhythms, shaped not by corporate protocol but by reciprocal, place-based structures informed by Brehon law—an early Irish model of relational governance. The work explores a world where servers rest at slack tide, and waste heat is redirected to support civic and productive uses nearby. Architectural forms open to their environment; computation becomes embedded, shared, and visible. No longer sealed and abstract, infrastructure begins to respond. Not utopian, but contingent, this is a stack attuned to season, sediment, and sovereignty.