This work visualizes software architecture as a living structure that can become rigid, painful, and then reorganized.
The project is based on the design structure matrix analysis of Mozilla by Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Baldwin. Their study showed how Mozilla’s redesign reduced propagation cost from 17.35% to 2.78%, making the system less tightly coupled and more modular.
Using this transformation as a visual and conceptual source, the work translates software dependencies into moving digital structures. Dense connections, locked pathways, and excessive coupling appear as a body under pressure. As the structure is reorganized, the image begins to open, separate, and breathe.
The work asks how invisible technical systems shape the conditions of action, failure, repair, and freedom. Refactoring is treated not only as an engineering process, but as a form of structural recovery: a movement from constraint toward a more breathable system.
