In development · Digital project

The Road Trip Digital Platform

A web and mobile experience for following the journey as it unfolds.

The Road Trip Digital Platform is being developed as the live public companion to the 2026 journey. It will allow participants to publish field notes, photography, writing, audio and video directly from the road, while audiences follow the route, encounter the artists and receive significant updates as the journey unfolds.

The prototype

Built, tested,
and responsive.

The entrance is already built and verified across desktop, tablet and mobile. Journey status, edition, title, route and dates hold their order at every width.

  • The entrance screen at desktop width, content centred, journey status above the title
    Desktop
  • The same screen at tablet width, the hierarchy holding
    Tablet
  • The same screen on a phone, route and dates still prominent
    Mobile

Interface from the working prototype, shown at the widths it was tested against. The device frames are drawn, not photographs of hardware. The platform is in development; nothing shown here is live yet.

The intended experience

What it will
carry.

These describe the product as intended. None of them is live yet.

  • Participant-authored field notes
  • Participant profiles
  • An evolving itinerary and route map
  • Photography and visual essays
  • Writing and daily reflections
  • Audio, podcast and sound
  • Video and short films
  • Significant public notifications
  • Partner and location information
  • Ways to follow and support the journey
  • A post-journey record connected to the Moving Archive

Publishing from the road

Their voices,
a coherent platform.

Participants will publish from the road through a simplified editorial interface. Invisible Borders will provide editorial support and moderation, ensuring that contributors retain their voices while the public platform remains coherent and reliable.

Development sequence

Before, during,
and after.

The platform has three lives, and the third is the one that lasts.

  1. 01

    Before the road

    Introduce the journey, the participants and the route.

  2. 02

    On the road

    Publish field notes, media, locations and significant notifications as they happen.

  3. 03

    After the road

    Preserve the journey as a coherent public record, and connect selected material to the Journal and the Moving Archive.

Reaching people

The road is not
always connected.

Much of the journey passes through places with little or intermittent bandwidth, so the platform is being built to work there rather than only in a studio.

That means pages that stay readable on a slow connection, media that does not have to load before the writing does, and interface motion that respects a visitor’s reduced-motion preference. It is a web and mobile experience, reachable from any browser, rather than something that must be installed first.

The journey it serves

Re-tracing the
Path of Stars.

The Road Trip produces encounters, experiences and artistic material. The Digital Platform allows these to travel beyond the immediate journey — connecting participants and remote audiences while creating a structured record of the road as it unfolds.

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