Tangible ambient interfaces
Intelligence situated in the everyday world.
Tangible ambient interfaces explore how computation and intelligence change when they inhabit objects, rooms, displays and physical environments.
Research · Inside the lab
Intelligence close to life.
Flink Labs makes small, inspectable worlds where unfamiliar behaviours can emerge without immediately having to become a product.
Some lines of research become methods, foundations or interface ideas for client work. Others remain sketches worth monitoring. Together they feed the lab's curiosity and shape its identity.
Research territories that keep the questions open.
Playable computation
Models and data as explorable worlds.
This work investigates data, models, agents and scenarios as interactive worlds that people can explore rather than outputs they merely observe.
Distributed intelligence
Intelligence spread across agents, devices, signals and networks.
This work investigates how coordination, memory and emergent behaviour arise from local rules and interactions.
Selected research artefacts
Bounded worlds make behaviour visible.
Artificial Life and Digital Ecosystems
Knowledge, Memory and Learning
A Living Neural Toy
How small can a neural world become while remaining interesting to inspect?
Explores: Making neural behaviour visible, perturbable and understandable.
Playable Computation
Knowledge, Memory and Learning
A Tiny Language Model
What becomes visible when a transformer is small enough to inspect directly?
Explores: Bounded model training, interpretation and behavioural testing.
Distributed Intelligence
Artificial Life and Digital Ecosystems
Agent Ecology
What forms of coordination emerge from local signals, memory and traces?
Explores: Multi-agent simulation, orchestration and emergent-behaviour analysis.
Playable Computation
Knowledge, Memory and Learning
Embedding Landscapes
Can large bodies of language become places people navigate without losing the source material?
Explores: Qualitative intelligence, clustering and explorable evidence interfaces.
Playable Computation
Knowledge, Memory and Learning
Pinnacle
What changes when data becomes a place people can move through and manipulate?
Explores: Spatial data interaction and explorable analytical environments.
Artificial Life and Digital Ecosystems
Knowledge, Memory and Learning
Distributed Intelligence
Neural Cellular Automata
How can local learned rules produce memory, repair and robust global form?
Explores: Distributed learning and inspectable complex-system behaviour.
Distributed Intelligence
Playable Computation
Learning to Coordinate
What cooperation is possible when agents share goals but communication is constrained?
Explores: Cooperative learning, group rewards and agent coordination.
Curiosity is not separate from the commercial work. It is how the work avoids becoming ordinary.
When one of these territories intersects with a consequential question inside your organisation, Flink Labs can turn it into a bounded investigation, a working artefact and a more defensible decision about what should happen next.