FAHRAS.  INSTITUTE FOR WORLDMAKING

Two working demos of FAHRAS

Clickable prototypes of the two surfaces FAHRAS is built around: the desk the research team works from, and the form an artist receives by email after their interview.

Version 4  ·  4 September 2026  ·  fictional data throughout, nothing here is a live system
→ These are prototypes, not a deployed platform. They run in your browser with invented artists and invented records. Nothing is saved, nothing is sent, and refreshing the page resets everything. They exist so that the intended product can be argued with before it is built.
For the research team

Research Desk

The whole platform as the team uses it: the journey from an email address to a published record, and the index those records accumulate into. Sign in as Researcher, Supervisor or Admin.

  • A record can be worked on before any outreach — desk research first
  • Outreach, scheduling, interview, transcript correction line by line
  • The eleven-section record and the artwork form
  • Supervisor comments on a field, and the researcher's side of them
  • Supervisor approval, publication, export, withdrawal
  • The index — artists, works, themes, institutions
  • Ask FAHRAS — search that answers from records and cites them
  • Admin registries, merges and access
Open the desk → For the artist

Email Self-Fill

What an artist receives by email after the conversation. Artists have no login and no account — the researcher sends a link, and the link is the whole relationship. Bilingual, built for a phone.

  • Add new information, or request an edit to what is there
  • Every value shows where it came from
  • Ten sections, all skippable — including the artworks themselves
  • Images with photographer credit and licence
  • Five permission questions, including where moments from the conversation may be shared
  • A way to withdraw, at any point
Open the form →