IR5 applies the Human Compatibility Framework through five domain modules. The framework itself remains stable, but each domain translates it into a specific field of practice, with its own risks, stakeholders, and long-term consequences. This allows the same core logic to be used consistently across very different systems without becoming vague or generic.

Our current domains are Cultural Institutions and Creative Projects, Artificial Intelligence Systems, Human Development Health and Community Systems, Infrastructure and Large-Scale Developments, and Institutional Governance and Decision Systems. Together, they span a wide range of contemporary systems where human impact is often assumed rather than examined. Some are technological, some institutional, some spatial, some cultural, but all of them shape how people live, decide, participate, and adapt over time.

The purpose of the domain structure is practical. It allows IR5 to move from a general framework into real contexts. The same questions still apply: who is affected, where does power sit, what harms are hard to reverse, what forms of recourse exist, and what becomes normal over time. What changes from domain to domain is the shape of those questions and the specific warning signs that matter most.

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