It starts from a simple observation: you cannot understand a university—or a research field—by looking at organisational charts alone. What matters just as much are the informal networks of collaboration, influence, shared methods, and half-formed ideas that cut across departments and institutions. Much of this activity is visible in publications, citations, and collaborations long before it shows up as patents, products, or companies. 

Prenovation is an attempt to make this earlier phase more legible. We do this through open, exploratory landscaping based on bibliometrics, interviews, and related forms of inquiry, published as the work unfolds rather than after the fact. The emphasis is on radical transparency: showing not only what we find, but how questions are framed, revised, and sometimes abandoned along the way.