On the home page, the content is divided in three ways—slow, medium, and fast, and is color-coded based on the subject. The user has the agency to choose what they want to consume and within what timeframe. As you scroll, everything moves in relation to each other, because you can’t have the slow without the fast and you can’t have the fast without the slow.

It was important to think about the different ways to engage with the text and make it accessible. The user’s collections is a space to group articles together and export them to print, creating a unique object catered to their specific interests.

Data Poetry uses Processing to generate posters using fragments of different articles from Commune. It randomly stitches phrases together, creating tercets—three-line stanzas. The array of outcomes ranges from coherent, humorous, absurd, to unfinished.

Through this, how can we create new meaning from the old, and what newfound knowledge is there to discover from unimaginable results? Data Poetry can serve as a prompt for writing on Commune, a marker of time, or as a starting point to think about things in different ways.