Dialog through art

Stories
surface here.

The knowledge is already in the room. We build the rooms that let it move — a phone in a pocket, a wall in a youth center, a dome ceiling, a headset, a market street in Puebla. Then we hand over the tools so the next room doesn’t need us.

Owned, not extracted Free for community use Open tools 9.9.26 · the unbinding
Step into a room ↗ See everything we’ve built
Six pieces you can open right now, no sign-up — four communities in 360°, a 20-year archive of 10,583 answers, and a philosopher who answers back. The tools behind them we run with you.
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Parramore
Orlando · FL · NIYC · a corner the kids carry
Walk into this one ↗
Lit Fuse Studios The knowledge was already here Collective Memory ↗ Living Archive ↗ The Invisible Choir ↗ Community 360° Builder Squinch The Garden of Epicurus ↗ GLYPH.LAB Studio Asili The Civic Forecast ↗ Phone · classroom · wall · dome · headset · street Pawtucket · Parramore · Clarksdale · Puebla · Berlin 9 · 9 · 26 · the unbinding Lit Fuse Studios The knowledge was already here Collective Memory ↗ Living Archive ↗ The Invisible Choir ↗ Community 360° Builder Squinch The Garden of Epicurus ↗ GLYPH.LAB Studio Asili The Civic Forecast ↗ Phone · classroom · wall · dome · headset · street Pawtucket · Parramore · Clarksdale · Puebla · Berlin 9 · 9 · 26 · the unbinding
What Lit Fuse Studios is

A fuse catches when a story finally finds its room. We're a community making the rooms ourselves — and the tools to keep lighting them.

We make immersive pieces with our own communities and put them on whichever surface is open — a phone in your pocket, a classroom screen, a community-center wall, a planetarium ceiling, an immersive museum room, a wall-side projection on a Tuesday night. The surface is whatever's already there. The story is what we bring. Then we open the toolkit so others can do the same.

01 · OUR STORIES, FIRST

The voices the medium kept missing.

Voice testimony. Lived-experience documentary. Neighborhood capture. Held inside a 360° space anyone can step into. Free voices from a Berlin table in 2006. A juke joint in Clarksdale. A mercado in Puebla. A youth center in Orlando. Held with consent and citation, not extracted.

02 · ACCESSIBLE BY DESIGN

Built to live wherever it needs to.

The same piece plays in a browser, on a community-center wall, inside a pop-up dome in a gym, on a planetarium ceiling. We design for whichever room a person actually has.

03 · OUR OWN TOOLKIT

We open the tools we made.

The Community 360° Builder lets anyone make a world from a phone — no code, start from one of ours. Squinch shows finished work on any surface before you rent the room. The Invisible Choir turns a street into a sound walk. Every one of them is running right now, free for community use. See the toolkit →

Three doors · pick yours

Same voices. Three doors in.

Immersive education Civic media Documentary Sound & music Cultural archive Open tooling

Five mediums. One practice. The doors below are how you find your way into the work — education and civic, immersive culture and music, the open tools we built so anyone can do it themselves.

01
DOOREducation
& Civic Media
Community gathering in Mexico From Puebla · community workshop
Curriculums
that talk back.
360° pieces our students step into, sit with, and add their own voice to. Immersive education, civic media, classroom dialogue. Workshops on building your own space. A growing library — free for community use.
Step in →
02
DOORImmersive
Culture
Inside the immersive piece — voices in the room In the room · voices in motion
Voices that
fill the room.
Where sound, music, image, and testimony share the same room. Installations our communities build with our open toolkit, in spaces we already meet in — documentary, culture, music, all on the same surface.
Step in →
03
DOORThe
Toolkit
Inside the open toolkit — building a 360° world Open toolkit · built and shared
Our open
toolkit.
The 360° Builder. Squinch. The Invisible Choir. Asili. The venue engine underneath all of it. Tools we built because no one was building them for us — opened up so others can too. Most of them run in a browser, free.
Step in →
By the numbers · the work, plain

What we’re already holding.

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voices at the table
Berlin · 2006 · filmed over two days
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answers, every one searchable
transcribed, attributed, with the footage attached
0communities you can stand inside
0pieces open right now, no sign-up
0years since the table
freefor community use, always
The voices we’re carrying · live at their own addresses

Four rooms.
Walk into any of them.

Community-authored 360° pieces, each one live at its own address. Hover to hear the room — the place, the people, the sound of it. Click to walk in. Consent on file, citations in, free for educators and community use.

Hover · listen 2025 · live
Orlando · FL
Parramore
NIYC youth · the corner they carry Walk in ↗
Hover · listen heritage · MS
Clarksdale · MS
The Crossroads
Delta sound · sounds of knowledge Walk in ↗
Hover · listen TOFV · partner
Puebla · México
El Mercado Vive
The market speaks · TOFV partner Walk in ↗
Hover · listen 2006 / 2026
Berlin · 2006 / 2026
Table of Free Voices
116 voices · 20th anniversary Walk in ↗
Bebelplatz, Berlin · 9 September 2006

One table.
One seat still empty.

116 people sat down for two days and answered the questions nobody had solved — on power, money, war, faith, whether a child can bloom. Every answer was filmed. Then the tape sat for twenty years.

On 9 September 2026, twenty years to the day, the table is set again. The empty chair was left on purpose.

—days until the table is set again
Take the seat ↗ Read the 10,583 answers
116 voices, one tablehover any seat · every answer is filmed
Clarksdale · Mississippi · after the last set

None of this was ours
to invent.

It was already in the room — on the porch, at the table, down the block. What was missing was a way for it to travel without somebody else owning it on the way out.

See what we built ↗
Open · running right now

Don’t take
our word for it.

A room you can stand in, a street you can walk, and someone you can argue with. All three open in a browser, right now, with no sign-up. If they don’t move you, none of the rest matters.

Also open, no strings: walk a block and hear who belongs there · this morning’s civic weather · all 10,583 answers, searchable · build a world of your own

The tools · we run these with you

These four we
don’t hand over cold.

Not because they’re precious — because handing someone a blank tool and walking away is how good projects die. We open them with you, in your room, around what you’re actually trying to do. Twenty minutes tells us both whether there’s something here.

The Community 360° Builder with a Parramore street scene loaded and the editing panel open
Authoring

Community 360° Builder

Start from a world we already built, drop your people’s voices into it, share the link. Runs on a phone. The hard part isn’t the software — it’s who you gather and what you ask them.

Squinch showing a voice roster and a dome venue with the surface rail across the bottom
Venue preview

Squinch

Move one piece along every surface — phone, wall, classroom, pop-up dome, planetarium, a wall-and-floor room — before you book anything. Tell us your room and we’ll show you yours.

Asili showing its four doors: Add a Voice, The Mirror, Organizer Console, National Atlas
Listening

Asili

Reads a community’s own words back through lenses that community chose. It’s a lens, not a verdict — which is exactly why we won’t leave it running unattended.

GLYPH.LAB Studio rendering living 3D typography with the studio controls open
Workshop

GLYPH.LAB Studio

A word becomes living type, and a whole room edits the same piece at once. Twenty minutes of this opens up a class that wouldn’t talk. That’s the part we bring.

Twenty minutes, screen shared, your actual situation.

Tell us the room, the group, or the question you’re sitting with. We’ll open whichever of these fits and you’ll know quickly if it’s real. No deck.

Set up a walkthrough →
Where we stand · the work and why
Not into the light. To the surface.
Manifesto · lineage · values · 4-min read

Knowledge from our communities has been undervalued by default — by museums, by curricula, by the rooms where culture is decided. Whose voice counts as voice. Whose room counts as space. Whose story gets to be canon. We don’t want better metaphors for that. We want the rooms.

A planetarium showing the night sky from a Mississippi porch. A museum room holding a market in Puebla. A Berlin table opened back up for the next twenty years. Same tools, same dignity — not as exception, but as the work.

The lineage we read from runs from Ralph Ellison’s basement to the curriculum committees and back. Visibility on our own terms. Light we made for ourselves. From the streets to the ivory tower — both rooms are ours, neither is the only one.

We build forward. Gaussian-splat 360° capture. Object-based audio that knows the room it’s playing in. Immersive pieces designed for documentary, civic media, and education in the same breath. The pedagogy comes first; the tooling serves it.

01
Whose hand
holds the microphone when the recording starts.
02
Whose consent
is on file when the piece ships.
03
Whose neighborhood
owns the archive after it’s made.
A note from inside the work

The spatial web is being built right now — mostly without us.

Apple, Meta and Google are scanning every street to build their version of spatial reality. Our neighborhoods become the backdrop. Voices already extracted from us once flow out of our hands a second time.

So we built the tools we needed. Some of them are open to anyone right now — the worlds, the archive, the walk. The rest we open with people, because a tool handed over cold is a project that dies in month two. If you’re building for the same reason, come talk to us. The work is more interesting together.

Digital sovereignty, for us, is plain. Whose hand holds the microphone. Whose consent is on file when the piece ships. Whose neighborhood owns the archive after — not just sits inside it. If you’re building your own tools for the same reason — we want to know you. The work is more interesting together.

— Lit Fuse Studios · with Civic Designers
Add your voice · or just say hi

What question
do you carry?

2026 is the twentieth year of the Table of Free Voices, and we’re setting it again. The work isn’t ours to finish — everyone who steps in adds what they carry. Send a voice note. Record a quick video. Or just write us. Same form, your medium. We hold what arrives. It all gathers at tableoffreevoices.org.

Pull up a seat at the table ↗

No spam. No marketing list. A real person reads it — usually within 48 hours.

Table of Free Voices · 2026

"What question do you carry — for the world?"

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