Welcome to
Project Minerva
What
Minerva is a workspace for long-form creative projects. You gather writing, research, images, files, and data on one spatial canvas, arrange them the way your process actually works, and connect the pieces that belong together. An artificial intelligence works from your material to help you retrieve ideas, cross-reference content, and contextualize your work with a bigger picture perspective. Then, it proposes and you approve every change. Every idea you generate along the way is quietly collected, helping you build and visualize your own ideas repository.
Why
We are living through a proliferation of tools fueled by artificial intelligence, all anchored in the same promise: to generate whatever you have imagined in your head. For tasks that are logical at their core, grounded in mathematics or physics, the promise largely holds. But when these tools attempt to substitute the creative process itself, the results systematically regurgitate old ideas in predictable ways. Being creative is precisely the opposite: the act that shifts our perspective.
The failure is not only in what these tools produce. It is also in how they listen. The way we interact with digital tools has been text-heavy. Text is simple for computers to understand, but it overlooks the many other ways humans communicate: diagrams, voice, pictures, gestures, moods, second meanings, poetry, drawings and sketches, shorthand,
music and melodies, onomatopoeia, and references that are not directly connected to their source, yet evoke an idea or emotion that suddenly clicks. Even the way we speak varies across languages, significantly changing meaning and communication style. Creativity moves through all of these registers, and a tool that only understands text is missing most of the conversation.
At the same time, it is unquestionable that technology can increase a creator's strength in areas such as cross-referencing, data analysis, input management, and procedural design. "Technology is the answer, but what was the question?" asked Cedric Price in 1966. So the real question lies in how we integrate that strength within the creative process. How do we empower our creativity while remaining in control?
We are living through a proliferation of tools fueled by artificial intelligence, all anchored in the same promise: to generate whatever you have imagined in your head. For tasks that are logical at their core, grounded in mathematics or physics, the promise largely holds. But when these tools attempt to substitute the creative process itself, the results systematically regurgitate old ideas in predictable ways. Being creative is precisely the opposite: the act that shifts our perspective.
The failure is not only in what these tools produce. It is also in how they listen. The way we interact with digital tools has been text-heavy. Text is simple for computers to understand, but it overlooks the many other ways humans communicate: diagrams, voice, pictures, gestures, moods, second meanings, poetry, drawings and sketches, shorthand, music and melodies, onomatopoeia, and references that are not directly connected to their source, yet evoke an idea or emotion that suddenly clicks. Even the way we speak varies across languages, significantly changing meaning and communication style. Creativity moves through all of these registers, and a tool that only understands text is missing most of the conversation.
At the same time, it is unquestionable that technology can increase a creator's strength in areas such as cross-referencing, data analysis, input management, and procedural design. "Technology is the answer, but what was the question?" asked Cedric Price in 1966. So the real question lies in how we integrate that strength within the creative process. How do we empower our creativity while remaining in control?
How
Minerva is organized in three interconnected depths, from the broadest perspective to the closest detail: the archive that holds your projects and your ideas, the Field of a single project, and the Editor where one piece of work opens.
Tap a project square or a Field card to trace it through the depths. Tap the Radar to scan, Harvest to send ideas home.
Your entire collection in one view.
- Every project you have made, side by side: open it, manage it, import and export it.
- Each project is a portable file that lives on your machine and belongs to you.
The workspace where a project takes its shape.
- Bring material in any register: writing, files, images, data, sketch.
- Arrange it on the Field and connect the pieces that belong together, from a straight sequence to a closed loop. The map you draw is the system that rules the project.
- Run the Radar: an intelligence reads the whole project and reports what is inconsistent, what is unbalanced, what deserves attention.
- The Radar also harvests the ideas the project has generated, feeding your repository.
The deepest level, where a single card opens for close work.
- Write and structure long-form text, or open any medium in its own view: documents, images, datasets.
- Mark the work as you read: highlights that mean keep, cut, or expand; comments; margin notes.
- On images, pin a point or a region and work from it. On datasets, ask questions the data can answer.
- Ask for an analysis: the intelligence reads your material and your marks, then proposes edits.
- Nothing applies silently. You approve, reject, or refine every proposal, and everything can be undone.
Ideas outlive the projects that sparked them.
- Every idea harvested along the way gathers here, across all your projects.
- Browse them as a living map of everything you have thought, and carry them into whatever comes next.
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About the maker
Minerva is designed and built by Enol Vallina, a designer and architect working across the USA and Europe. Years inside internationally recognized studios and multicultural teams slowly incubated one grand question: what connects creative thinking to computer thinking? The answer draws on the aptitude architects and urban designers inherit from their training, navigating complex quantitative and qualitative systems to transform a vision into reality; and on parametric design, the discipline of treating a project as a system of parameters and relationships rather than a collection of artifacts. The conviction is that the same discipline, applied to a thinking tool, can produce what the artificial intelligence moment has not yet managed: something careful, meaningful, and truly unique.
Reach out at minerva@enolvallina.com, or see more work at enolvallina.com.