Adriana

Adriana is the founder and architect of Possibilia, an independent initiative for research, strategic foresight, and experimental development. Her work begins with a question that connects computing to the systems people live in: what could a computer help us understand, and how should that understanding shape the choices we make?

At thirteen, during a summer break, she wrote a book about a computer that governed a city living in peace and harmony. She imagined the machine and the city together: what the computer could do, and what life around it could become.

That way of thinking stayed with her. She often perceives connections before she has the language to explain them. Research gives those intuitions something to answer to. An idea must survive study, criticism, and revision before it can become a proposal worth building.

She studied strategic foresight at the Institute for the Future and pursued machine learning to understand the foundations of the computer she wanted to design. Design thinking helped her frame the work around the people affected by it. Together, these disciplines shaped her approach: examine the wider system, follow connections across fields, and investigate whether a method developed for one problem can help solve another.

Possibilia grew from that approach.

In ADE, she is investigating an evolving computational architecture that could help people understand changing situations and explore possible futures. The question of governance belongs at the beginning: a system that influences decisions must be designed around who directs it, who is affected, and how its proposals can be questioned.

3 Sphere investigates how information from different sources can retain its relationships, context, and history as it becomes usable for further analysis.

Human Computer Symbiosis asks how people could work with such a computer without spending their attention managing it. As the machine gains capabilities, the person needs a way to give direction, examine results, and remain in control.

These are research projects with open questions. Adriana defines their architecture and direction, bringing the original intuition into contact with what can be investigated and built.

The city from the book remains in view. It makes every technical question larger: what happens to the people, relationships, and choices around the machine?

She is still designing the computer with the city in view.