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## View reorganises the site around a question

AI × Self
Source ID aipersonalarchive:view-reorganises-the-site-around-a-question
Original https://www.henryw.me/#/aipersonalarchive#view-reorganises-the-site-around-a-question

Trying a project’s demo reveals how it behaves. Photographs bring places and experiences into view, while a piece of writing preserves how I understood an idea at the time. In a View, these original pieces become part of the explanation, appearing where they help develop its meaning. Each response becomes a composed reading. A question, theme, or perspective guides the selection of material, and the narrative explains what the visitor should notice in it. A project’s working demo can sit beside a research entry or a piece of personal writing, giving the explanation concrete material to work with. Compose a View I registered projects, research entries, personal writing, image groups and interactions as reusable components. The model selects the components that answer the question, writes the narrative that connects them and gives each section its place in the reading.

Each component carries its own content and behaviour, so the model can compose a new reading using an existing demo, photo gallery or written passage. A question about learning might bring together work on human cognition, an education project, and a reflection written in another context. A question about how I build tools might draw on some of those same pieces for different reasons. The question changes which relationships the composition develops. A generated illustration gives the page a visual interpretation of its question and perspective. An audio summary introduces the reading before visitors explore the full narrative. A saved View brings together its question, narrative, sources, illustrations and audio. Its permanent link lets the creator return to that version or share it with someone else. Creators can also publish a View in the shared collection.

Other visitors can explore these readings and see the archive through someone else’s perspective. The same narrative can also be experienced through space. Giving works scale and distance lets people approach them, pause and make connections as they move. I designed the Gallery so each View could be visited as an exhibition.