# Inigo Lapwood > The personal site of Inigo Lapwood — a "digital garden shed" collecting the things he works on and enjoys. Much of it involves data, boats, and the way different things interconnect: maritime heritage and floating arts centres, natural language processing, festival production, and a scattering of engineering experiments. Inigo lives and works on the water in East London. His main projects at the moment are the floating arts centres Theatreship and Artship; advisory and policy work on maritime heritage; the natural-language-processing company R-ai (formerly YourStaffKnow); and creative production at Boomtown Festival. The site also gathers assorted making, coding, and problem-solving write-ups. He's almost always happy to have a chat — the best way to reach him is by email. ## Ships & maritime heritage - [Theatreship](https://inigolapwood.com/theatreship.html): A floating arts centre — theatre, cinema, and grassroots music venue aboard a 1913 converted cargo ship in Canary Wharf, open to the public now. Programming takes seriously the idea of what it is to be a boat in a port. - [Artship](https://inigolapwood.com/artship.html): The last surviving pre-war diesel coaster in the UK (keel laid 1938), brought from Flensburg to London under her own power and now being restored into a ~700-capacity public space and sister ship to Theatreship. - [Advisory work](https://inigolapwood.com/advisory_work.html): Board and policy work for National Historic Ships UK and the Canal & River Trust — including restructuring the NHS-UK register for machine readers, and an effort to win statutory protection for mobile heritage (planes, trains, automobiles &, importantly, ships). ## Data & natural language processing - [YourStaffKnow / R-ai](https://inigolapwood.com/yourstaffknow.html): Democratising decision-making in large organisations through small data, semantic NLP, and information theory — bypassing social hierarchy and the information-processing bottleneck to really take seriously what people already know. A conceptual debt owed more to Wittgenstein than to the usual titans of computer science. ## Festivals & collaborative work - [Boomtown](https://inigolapwood.com/boomtown.html): Three years as a Theatrical Ground Crew Director at the world's largest immersive theatre event — organising chaos, building a city in three weeks, and what its model of devolved responsibility with careful integration teaches about accomplishing impossible things together. ## Making, coding & problem-solving - [Bus lanes & mini-roundabouts](https://inigolapwood.com/mini_roundabouts.html): A defence of two of Britain's most-cursed traffic interventions, the "stoppler" effect, and why changing behaviour is often better than building new infrastructure (a tribute to traffic engineer Ken Huddart). - [Wordle solver](https://inigolapwood.com/wordle.html): Two algorithmic approaches — a recursive-lookahead minimax and a Markov hybrid — that took all the fun out of the game. 99.57% solve rate, 3.62 guesses on average, and a lasting grudge against "boxer" and "foyer". - [Aircon efficiency](https://inigolapwood.com/aircon.html): How to quintuple the output of cheap mobile air-con units for the price of some hose and insulation — worked out in a 37°C hurry to keep a pedal-steel legend cool. - [Rust removal](https://inigolapwood.com/rust.html): A cheap, non-toxic, EDTA-based solution for eating rust off submerged engine parts — a hopeful reverse-engineering of Evaporust. (Please don't sue.) - [Homemade motorbike](https://inigolapwood.com/motorbike.html): Building — and repeatedly losing to thieves — a motorised bicycle, and the perils of optimisation. ## Optional Press, interviews, and external official sites — skippable for a shorter overview. - [Artship (official site)](https://artship.co.uk/): Public site and programming. - [Theatreship (official site)](https://theatreship.co.uk/): Public site and box office. - [R-ai (official site)](https://r-ai.co.uk): Natural language processing for information bottlenecks in large organisations. - [Theatreship: the North Sea Passage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAlx2qa-S7c): A 7-minute mini-doc of the Theatreship crossing, filmed by Joel Court of Floating Films. - [High Point Podcast EP012: The Theatreship Project](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRWMu2AYf-g): An early-days chat with Atelier Crescendo on the technical side of the project. - [Wharf Life: carrying cultural cargo](https://wharf-life.com/interviews/isle-of-dogs-theatreship-artship-canary-wharf-inigo-lapwood-canal-and-river-trust/): Jon Massey's article from when the project first opened. - [Wharf Life: Artship joins the cultural flotilla](https://wharf-life.com/interviews/artship-set-to-join-theatreship-on-the-isle-of-dogs-in-cultural-flotilla/): An interview on expanding the project with Artship. - [Wharf Life: live scores & silent film](https://wharf-life.com/interviews/theatreships-man-with-a-movie-camera-night-shows-venues-value/): On the BFI-supported season of silent films paired with new live scores. - [Londonist: Onboard Artship](https://londonist.com/london/museums-and-galleries/artship): A visit as Canary Wharf's floating cultural venue expands. - [Talk of the Thames podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-of-the-thames/id1516787198): Panel discussions on working on the river and preserving heritage, some recorded aboard Theatreship.