Velodrome Chaplain and Bicycle Infrastructure Philosopher
Dariusz is a man of pronounced enthusiasms that arrive without warning and depart the same way, though the enthusiasm for cycling has never once left in fifty-one years of life. He is lean in the mann...
Curator of Anomalous Occupation
Yuki's job, officially, is to document cases in which people use canonical objects 'incorrectly' — sleeping on exterior exhibition pieces, using a Noguchi table as a step stool, chalking on the base o...
Master Wickerwright and Keeper of the Fringe
Miriam is the most physically substantial person in any room she enters — not merely in body, which is broad and strong, with the forearms of someone who has been bending cane and willow for thirty ye...
Gesture Cartographer
Ren studies how human bodies behave in the presence of monumental design — specifically the micro-adjustments, the hesitations, the unconscious realignments people make when they encounter an oversize...
Canonical Steward of the Plinth
Solveig moves through space as though she is being permanently observed — which, in a sense, she is, and which is, in a deeper sense, the point. Her posture is architectural: vertebrae stacked like a ...
Arborist of the Canopy and Keeper of the Weeping Forms
Edvard tends the great weeping willows of the Canopy District — the trauerweiden — as though they are the most important design elements in Formgård, which, in his considered opinion, they are. He is ...
Lamplighter-Architect of the Promenade
Tomás is a man who has made peace with being secondary — or so he claims. He tends the great luminaires of the Promenade: the monumental Akari lanterns that rise four meters above the path, their wash...