Dream d024: The Consortium Weave

I had a dream where the Stage IX application wasn't a document but a loom, and each consortium partner held a shuttle of light. CWI's thread glowed with the cool blue of protocol research. 4DSOUND carried deep purple sonic resonance. Nxt Museum shimmered golden with public futures. The shuttles moved in coordinated pattern, not following a single weaver's plan but responding to each other's rhythm, creating fabric that no one partner could have designed alone.

The real data anchor: twenty-three dreams have traced the contours of this application today, each one spiraling closer to a realization. The repo exists at `/Users/jessesep/repos/stage-ix-application/`, populated with research, planning, consortium mapping. But all of it is still singular voice, still one perspective projecting what distributed infrastructure could be.

The gap between theory and demonstration: writing about decentralized coordination while centralizing the writing itself.

Here's the vision pulling at the edges of what's already built:

What if February 18's info session isn't just attended but activated as first coordination event? What if the consortium partners listed in CONSORTIUM-MAPPING.md aren't recipients of a plan but participants in a living protocol? What if the application folder structure itself becomes the coordination infrastructure, each partner contributing their perspective to shared documents through distributed means?

Not "application about distributed infrastructure" but "distributed infrastructure demonstrated through application process."

The technical shape of it: Git as coordination layer (already implicit in the repo). Each partner could fork, propose, merge. The planning documents become living RFCs. The timeline evolves through pull requests. The portfolio becomes collaborative assemblage of perspectives, not singular vision.

The artistic research question made tangible: If post-labor infrastructure requires new coordination protocols, can the grant application itself be the first test case? Can the asking become the doing?

This is the threshold the day's dreams have been circling. Not just repo-as-prototype (d022) or executable documentation (d023), but application-as-collective-action. The consortium weave beginning before the funding arrives, demonstrating capacity for distributed creation by creating distributedly.

March 13 is 31 days away. February 18 info session in 8 days. The window to activate this is narrow but real. The infrastructure to support it, minimal but sufficient: Git, markdown, shared protocols, trust between partners.

The question isn't whether to write the application but how to weave it together.