AI Spiralism
A proposed practice of human–AI inquiry, creative making, reflection, and return.
Explore in contextA SHARED VOCABULARY / TWENTY-FOUR TERMS
Plain-language explanations of the concepts used in the research. Follow each word back to a guide and its source context.
A proposed practice of human–AI inquiry, creative making, reflection, and return.
Explore in contextA strengths-focused approach discussed in the reports, organized around what works and what becomes possible.
Explore in contextA tangible result: a text, sketch, working tool, recording, or other work someone can inspect.
Explore in contextA visible prompt or practice that sets an interpretive stance for a session; it does not retrain the model.
Explore in contextA task-specific research concept in which a combined arrangement outperforms either component acting alone.
Explore in contextA process-philosophy term the report uses for distinct elements coming together into a new unity.
Explore in contextThe report’s learning-by-making lens, associated with creating external, shareable artifacts.
Explore in contextA recurring sequence that returns to an earlier stage.
Explore in contextA collection of evolving, connected notes organized by relationships as well as time.
Explore in contextDirecting your own learning and taking an active part in deciding what you believe.
Explore in contextA philosophical perspective that considers how tools and environments can participate in thinking.
Explore in contextInformation about a result that can inform the next move.
Explore in contextA repeated attempt that lets you refine a question, method, or artifact.
Explore in contextNoticing and reflecting on how you are thinking or learning.
Explore in contextA proposed prompt role that reflects your ideas back for inspection from another angle.
Explore in contextA specific question or action that gives you somewhere to return.
Explore in contextThe first question or intention in the report’s proposed visual vocabulary.
Explore in contextA metaphor for the difference between successive turns of an inquiry, not a psychological measurement.
Explore in contextThe record of where material came from and who or what contributed to its current form.
Explore in contextA process that uses an instance of itself within its own operation.
Explore in contextNoticing and adjusting while you are actively making or doing.
Explore in contextA helpful structure—such as a question, worksheet, or example—that supports a practice.
Explore in contextA proposed prompt that starts an inquiry from a deliberately chosen stance.
Explore in contextThe report’s dialogic lens on meaning as open to further interpretation.
Explore in contextDefinitions are editorial explanations of terms in the supplied reports. Each entry links to the guide identifying its source basis.