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Three depths
The map is one curator's reading practice. It works better when other readers bring their reading practice alongside it. The shape of that company has three depths. Pick the one that fits where you are.
These are not membership tiers. There is no badge, no profile, no roster. There is a relationship and there is the work the relationship produces.
Correspondent
The open depth. For anyone in the field who has read something on the map and has something to say back.
What it asks of you. Reach in with intel, suggestions, contestations, named gaps. A reading you think is wrong. An island that should be on the map and is not. A structural pattern the audit missed. A vocabulary the criterion does not yet have language for.
What it gives back. Your contestation becomes part of the audit cycle. The reading practice gets sharper. Specific contestations that change the map are credited where their owner wants them named.
How it works in practice. One-off contact through the Reach In surface. The curator reads everything that comes in. Responses are slow and considered, not instant.
Who it is for. Anyone in the field-of-the-field. No threshold. No vetting.
Co-reader
The working depth. For methodology-curious readers willing to apply the criterion themselves to an entity they know well.
What it asks of you. Bring an entity you know well. Read it through the six tests yourself. Sit with the curator for a session, ninety minutes, voice or video. The session is a calibration exercise. Your reading. The curator's reading. The gap between them. Where the gap is, the criterion learns.
What it gives back. A documented reading on the map under your authorship. A working knowledge of how the criterion runs at the surface where it actually meets entities. A relationship that can be returned to.
How it works in practice. Email to begin a conversation. The curator runs a small number of these sessions each cycle, not many. Sessions are pre-audited: the entity must already be in the map's scope or close to it.
Who it is for. Readers in the regenerative-design, indigenous-methodology, animism-phenomenology, ecopsychology, or systems-and-sensemaking lineages who want to test the criterion against their own knowledge. Practitioners holding structural literacy in their own field.
Lineage-holder
The deepest depth. Held by three to five people across the work's lifespan.
What it asks of you. Hold an archipelago. Its islands, its through-line, its readings. Co-author the archipelago's framing with the curator. Help decide what stays on the map, what gets re-read, what gets removed. The horizon is multi-year. The relationship is named.
What it gives back. A structural seat in the work. The archipelago is no longer the curator's alone; it is co-held. The reading practice for that archipelago has two pairs of eyes minimum, on the long arc.
How it works in practice. Conversation first. Trust built across time. The lineage-holder relationship is named publicly on the archipelago's page when both sides agree, or held quietly when discretion is needed.
Who it is for. Deep field-holders whose own reading practice is already mature and whose relationship to the work is long-arc. Not a role to apply for; a role that emerges from sustained correspondence.
Light touch
If none of the three depths fits right now, you can still stay close. The field signals dispatch goes out monthly. Newly published field signals. Map shifts. Audit-cycle notes. One short piece from the curator's reading log.
It is the lightest form of being in the work. Nothing is asked of you. The dispatch arrives once a month. You can unsubscribe any time.
What this page is not
It is not a membership funnel. There is no tier above lineage-holder. There is no premium content. The dispatch is the dispatch; the readings live on the map; the criterion is on the criterion page; everything important is public.
The three depths exist because the work has different needs at different distances, not because the curator is selling access. The roles are described honestly so a reader who recognises themselves can step in at the depth that fits.
If you read the work without ever stepping into any depth, the work is already doing its job.