Concept Play

Explorable explanations

Touch ideas you’ve never touched.

Some ideas only make sense once you can move them with your hands. These are things you can touch with your mind, and watch what happens.

By Ebrahim Montazeri  ·  Designer, Creator, Educator

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I build these because I want to understand, and understanding, for me, has never come from a paragraph. It comes from turning a knob and watching the world answer back. Each piece here is a small machine for that feeling. Move something. See what moves with it.

Featured pieces

Four to explore
01Featured

The Political Space

A cube you can turn: ideology, government, and state structure as three independent dimensions.

Enter the piece
02Featured

Inside a Fusion Reactor

Drag the temperature. Watch nuclei refuse, then collide, then fuse, and see how stars actually work.

Enter the piece
03Featured

Powering a City

Follow one split atom all the way to a window lighting up across town. The whole chain, end to end.

Enter the piece
04Featured

Falling Toward a Black Hole

Drift toward the event horizon and watch time itself slow down, for you and for the people watching.

Enter the piece

Soon

In the workshop
05The Shape of a Vaccineimmunology, by hand
06How a Sentence Meanslanguage as a machine
07Tuning a Climatefeedback you can feel