Synaptic Cartography
A planisphere and an anatomy of ideas that should not yet exist — rendered as museum-grade interactive plates and bound into a coherent body of work.
· two finished plates · more on the way ·
What this is for
Synaptic Cartography is an aesthetic of quiet, museum-grade scientific illustration applied to the technical content of frontier deep-tech proposals. Each plate is built like a nineteenth-century anatomical folio — except every line, every colour, every data point is interactive. Hover. Click. Scrub the curve. The image is the argument.
Two proposals live here. Both target post-von-Neumann computing from opposite ends — one on the software side (SYMPHONY · a neuromimetic substrate for code), one on the hardware side (MEMPHIS · a hippocampal-memristive chip). Both are EIC Pathfinder 2026 submissions. Future plates in the series will join them as they earn their place.
The plate is the argument. The argument is the plate.
Pick a thread
SYMPHONY →
A neuromimetic knowledge substrate for software systems
Multi-scale neuromodulation and low-bandwidth shared control for task-adaptive code comprehension. Twelve interactive plates · the full proposal · the four partners · the deep-dive on each.
EIC Pathfinder 2026 · May 2026
MEMPHIS →
A hippocampal · memristive · neuromorphic architecture
Memory and computation co-localised on a self-organising substrate driven by two-phase replay dynamics. Five interactive plates · STDP window · CA3 ↔ CA1 circuit · the full proposal.
EIC Pathfinder 2026 · May 2026
Read the consortium one face at a time
Read the proposals end-to-end
More plates in the Synaptic Cartography series are in preparation. Each will earn its place the same way SYMPHONY and MEMPHIS did — a defensible scientific claim, a published primary source for the mechanism, a real partner who has survived contact with the field, and visuals built like the inside of a Wellcome Collection folio.
The studio takes its time. The next plate appears when the work is ready, not when the calendar asks for it.
Gloock display serif (project names, large numerals · plate roman numerals). IBM Plex Serif (body, italic captions). IBM Plex Mono (small-caps tracked labels, axis ticks).
Midnight indigo / cool-navy backgrounds. Cream · amber · rose · teal inks. Symphony accent: lavender-violet (task baton). MEMPHIS accent: warm amber (firing memristor).
British English. No emojis. No marketing words. Lead with the claim, then evidence, then caveat. Each page ends with one italic line. The plate is the argument.