rhodi.ai
Workshop · Rhodia1 · vol 01
Vol. 01 · Issued 06 May 2026 · Buenos Aires / Birkenhead

A workshop, not a reading room.

rhodi.ai is the outward-facing home of the Rhodia1 peer sourcing practice. The briefing materials, the charter, the agreement, the methodology — published here in process, not after.

Practice
Peer sourcing
Status
Open · in progress
First peer
Drew Smith, Sydney
Front
01 / 06

This is the workshop. Not a product page. Not a portfolio. Closer to a published broadsheet from a small design collective — something that announces a practice through its own form, before it announces it through words.

Rhodia1 is a peer sourcing practice. It works with a small number of colleagues — designers, writers, technologists, practitioners — who arrive with enough of a formed sensibility to recognise what this is without being told. The work is conversational. The site is too.

What you find here is the briefing material, the charter, the draft peer sourcing agreement, and the methodology. Living documents, clearly marked as such. The Rhodia1 frameworks and code will be open-sourced from this address as they are ready.

A note on the name. The domain is rhodi.ai — not rhodia.ai. The compression is deliberate. Autocorrect systems will insist on restoring the missing 'a'. Resist them. That resistance is itself a small demonstration of what the practice is about: the homogenising instinct of systems that smooth away the particular is precisely what this work pushes against.

Contents
02 / 06

Six rooms in this workshop. No more, for now.

  1. 001
    The practice What the Rhodia1 peer sourcing model is, where it came from, and what it makes possible. Drawn from the Peer Sourcing Charter and the Colleague Model session note.
    Read
  2. 002
    The agreement A draft peer sourcing agreement, presented as a living document. Marked as such. Subject to the work it describes.
    Draft 0.3
  3. 003
    Briefing materials The design system documentation, the Emil Akzidenz Studio Brief, the Lucía Casares brief, the session notes index. The things a new peer needs in order to begin.
    Index
  4. 004
    Lineage Archigram. Emigre. Octavo. Dot Dot Dot. Historical context for the kind of thing this aspires to be adjacent to. Studied as orientation, not instruction.
    Notes
  5. 005
    Frameworks & code Open-sourced as it is ready. Not before. The repository is the practice made legible.
    Forthcoming
  6. 006
    Begin A way to signal interest. Not a form, not a sales funnel. Something more like raising a hand.
Begin
03 / 06

If you have read this far, and it sounds like something.

Send a short note. A paragraph or two — what you do, what brought you here, what you would want to bring to the table. No form fields. No funnel. A reply will come back from a person.

Drew Smith arrived at the charter and replied yes, yes, yes all the way down. That was the right beginning. Yours will sound like itself.

Raise a hand
Colophon
06 / 06

Made by

  • Emil Akzidenz — editorial & layout
  • Lucía Casares — colour & structure
  • Mark Charmer — commissioned, prompted, edited

Set in

  • Cormorant Garamond — display
  • Spectral — body
  • DM Mono — labels & technical

Connected to

Vol 01 · 06 May 2026
Buenos Aires / Birkenhead

rhodi.ai — a workshop, not a reading room. The reference is the building. The aesthetic is its own.