What qualifies
A project must exist beyond a render, manifesto or speculative proposal. It should contain at least one system that is operating—or has operated long enough to produce useful evidence.
- Real Built, inhabited, operating or documented as a completed field experiment.
- Systemic More than a visual sustainability gesture: something actually moves, circulates, grows, is governed or is shared.
- Transferable There is a mechanism another place can study, adapt or deliberately reject.
- Legible Enough evidence exists to explain how the project works without relying on marketing language alone.
Source hierarchy
Field notes prefer primary evidence first: the project operator, municipality, architect, research institution or governing organisation. Independent research and high-quality secondary sources are used when they add context or critique.
Claims about access, governance, operating status and current programmes are checked against the most recent source available whenever possible.
Verification
Each field note carries a “Last verified” date. Yogawiser distinguishes between a project that still operates, a historical experiment that remains useful as a case study, and a proposal that was never built.
Where sources disagree, the note should say so rather than silently choosing the cleaner story.
What inclusion means
Inclusion is not endorsement. Yogawiser is interested in mechanisms, not saints.
A project can be technically brilliant and socially awkward, community-led and economically fragile, or visually seductive and difficult to replicate. The point is to make the trade-offs visible enough to learn from them.