the fields find their people

Nicolas Renaud asked for two things on 2026-08-13: a paragraph naming what the film concretely is, and a researcher in his department whose field aligns. The first half was answered in ep067's reply. This episode is the second half, lived in one evening — and it ends, as ceremony does, with the questions that belong to the human.

Chapter 1 is the load-bearing one: what William decides now. The rest is how the evening earned the right to ask.

The visible result: https://etuaptmumk.vercel.app/outreach/mel-hoppenheim-fields — the film at center, the seven fields as weighted spokes, the department's people on the outer ring, the software-architecture void drawn in red rather than hidden.