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POLYPHONIC is the research, writing, companioning and production studio of Luke Jaaniste.

Exploring the conditions for life-giving possibilities and orientations, across vast complexities, critical thresholds and embodied subtleties.Entering vast complexity. Finding the hidden shapes that produce insight. Designing the elegant interventions that produce inspiration. Creating spaciousness and aliveness where once there was confusion, complication and constriction.At the heart of all human living, knowing and making. At all scales.For highly creative and generative individuals. For public spaces and public discourses. For vast archives and masses of texts. For entire sectors. And increasingly for the long, evolving macro-histories, micro-moments and messy practices of civilisational coordinations and generative openings.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Better Ways: Founding the logical, empirical, pragmatic and felt-experiential
Liveliness: On the method under all methods
The Companion (and The Disaster)
Intuitive Leaping: the bodily felt grammar of the new
Gendlin100
Last Words?
When. In. Cities. When. In. Clothes.

ACTIVE PROJECTS

THINKING WITHOUT KILLING. On writing, reading, sharing, re-telling, living and dying without killing what's actually alive in what's happening. Since 2026.
THINKING BEYOND THE EDGE. A process account of experiential and logical precision. Since 2024.
THE GOLDEN POND. Formative companionship for the world's most generative people. Since 2025.
GENDLIN ARCHIVE PROJECT. A textual archaeology of 60+ years of published and unpublished texts. Partnering with TIFI. Since 2024.
MESMERISM. Elemental immersive installations in iconic public spaces. Since 2023.
HHAARRPP. Super embodied spatialised music-scapes. Since 2014.

PREVIOUS PROJECTS

Coordinating in the Midst of Mega Disasters. Major research report. 2023.
Northern Rivers Disaster Convergence. Regional government + agency + community gathering. With HHUG Inc. 2021-2023.
Vigil For Grief. Collective ceremonial grieving space. 2019. 2023.
Theatre of Thunder. Music-scapes + Butoh movement. 2015-2023.
Community-Led Flood Crisis Operations, Mullumbimby. 2022.
{Black::Rainbow}. Long-duration ambient doom trio. 2018-2021.
All The Ways of Winning At Sports infographic. Information is Beautiful award. 2019.
Super Critical Mass. Participatory public sound project. 2008-2017.
Creative Cities Policy. Brisbane City Council. 2012.
Innovation and Conservation: Resetting Arts Policy. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. QUT CCI. ARC Centre of Excellence. 2008-2011.
Inter-disciplinary Research Methods. Across a dozen discipline areas and 250+ researchers. QUT. 2005-2009.
Approaching The Ambient. PhD. QUT. 2003-2007.

CV (download)