What guides us

Good support expands a person’s ability to shape life for reasons of their own. This requires understanding the relationships, spaces and commitments that sustain everyday life.

Relational autonomy

Depending on others is part of human life. Autonomy means being able to shape support, express claims and set limits. We therefore treat relatives’ time and exhaustion as concerns in their own right. A solution must be workable for the people whose cooperation it depends on.

Shaping responsibility

An alert creates an expectation that someone will respond. Automation changes who decides and who handles failure. For every technical solution, we ask which work it takes over and which work it creates. Progress is measured by greater agency and sustainable relationships, rather than by device counts.

Knowledge needs critique

Experience in a home cannot be fully translated into a measurement. Models help examine relationships; participants must be able to correct how they are represented. For us, citizen science begins with deciding what deserves investigation. A reasoned refusal or choosing to do without technology can be a valuable outcome.

Openness as a commitment

Open source enables inspection, adaptation and sharing. Accessible documentation and understandable decisions make those possibilities usable. We see openness as a commitment to keep dependencies visible and enable a voice for people who do not develop software.