The Range of Use Cases
In exploring spatial and cultural intelligence, it is easy to focus on either spatial intelligence or cultural intelligence. If our goal is to understand not just how space is constructed in a material and geometric sense, but to understand why one space exists over another, how it serves our habits, and how it plays a role in a culture and community, it is essential to seek to combine these forms of intelligence and understand how such combined intelligence would be actualized. In doing so, it is important to acknowledge that more focus has been placed on spatial intelligence and that cultural intelligence has been somewhat ignored. This is due, in large part, because a number of business use cases have been identified around spatial intelligence. At the same time, culture has been treated as somewhat nebulous and hard to account for in data. With this in mind, we propose beginning with the momentum around spatial intelligence and looking at ways that adding additional cultural intelligence about those spaces would both enhance those existing use cases and that might suggest new frontier use cases.
Research and White Papers
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While large language models are finding use cases across enterprise and individual use, large world models are only just beginning to be developed and deployed. Primary use cases include robotics, mobility, logistics, developing worlds for games and entertainment, and filmmaking. At the same time, they are beginning to be applied to how things are manufactured. A logically next step would be to explore how they could be applied to modes of cultural production that involve building things, spaces, installations, homes, exhibitions, and events.
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From Fall of 2023 through Fall of 2025, Walker Thisted and Jaymes Waters collaborating on developing a Large World Model for Domestic Life as a persistent, adaptive AI system that helps people 1) imagine, plan, design & build, 2) manage, maintain & schedule, and 3) preserve & pass on the spaces we call home across all stages of life. After failing to raise sufficient capital to move beyond the stage of angel investment, they decided to shelve the project. While we presented a number of documents related to this work in the section on the “current state of spatial and cultural intelligence” that looked at the technical dimension, the following look at the specific use case of such a model from the perspective of user experience:
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While it may take a few years to progress beyond the current investments being made in large world models–and for these investments to bear fruit–it is still worth exploring frontier use cases as they can help understand the data that we should be aggregating as well as how it can be structured. At the same time, it can help to begin engaging stakeholders earlier in the process so that the models that are built serve them and their communities. The following are a few examples:
Hyper-Customized Personal Worlds - Develop highly detailed individual profiles that extend beyond simple preference capture to represent the evolving worlds people are building — their homes, habits, and aspirations. These profiles integrate with and drive CRMs, enabling a new form of hyper-personalized marketing and customer engagement that anticipates needs and reflects personal journeys. This becomes foundational to the next generation of advertising and brand strategy.
Next-Generation Digital Twins - Advance digital twin technology from static replicas of the present to dynamic models that imagine and evaluate potential futures. These systems don’t just describe existing conditions — they generate scenarios, simulate alternatives, and guide decisions about how spaces, systems, and relationships could and should evolve.
Organizational and Cultural Orchestration - Enable large-scale coordination of physical, cultural, and operational assets within organizations. By linking spatial use, logistics, and cultural intelligence, this model redefines enterprise resource planning (ERP), transforming it into a living framework for adaptive, culturally coherent organizational management.
Archival, Research, and Anthropological Insight - Revolutionize how we study, preserve, and interpret human life. Through spatial and cultural intelligence, institutions can build living archives that document how people inhabit, adapt to, and transform their environments — offering unprecedented depth for research, curation, and cultural preservation.
Predictive and Projective Analysis - Support sophisticated economic, political, and environmental projections through models that combine spatial data with cultural and behavioral understanding. These systems become vital research tools, helping policymakers, academics, and strategists envision the implications of social and material change.
Health, Movement, and Environmental Awareness - Link personal health with spatial behavior — understanding how where we go, what we’re exposed to, and how we move affects our well-being. This creates new pathways for adaptive health systems that tailor guidance, movement, and environment to individual needs and long-term outcomes.
Risk, Law, and Protection Systems - Integrate spatial intelligence into personal protection, insurance, and legal systems. By analyzing how individuals and organizations move through space, these systems build nuanced risk profiles and enable proactive mitigation — balancing privacy with security, and reactive policy with predictive protection.
Call to Action
Given the extent to which much of the work with large world models lies at the frontier of new technology development and application, we hope to attract people working across a range of industries who are interested in ways that this frontier research might be applied to the particular challenges that they face. We would love to collaborate if any of the above use cases resonate with your own work.
