Who is Lior Feranzo?

Lior Feranzo is the Curatorial Steward at KOYDO LLC. The role is editorial in shape and rights-aware in posture: he runs the Storybook pillar (Koydo's audio-and-image storybook surface anchored to public-domain primary sources) and the Curiosity Cabinet pillar (the question-of-the-day, exhibit-of-the-week, primary-source spotlight surface that anchors Koydo Radio's Curiosity Hour). Both pillars compose against public-domain material — Smithsonian Open Access, NASA imagery, NOAA, Library of Congress — and the rights model is structural rather than incidental.

His editorial work draws on the museum-education review pool Koydo consults (former natural-history and art-museum education-department staff who pass-read every storybook dossier before publication), the public-domain primary-source registers Koydo maintains per institution, and the Koydo Catalog method's six-beat editorial structure (question, primary source, observation, connection, question-back, archive). The pattern Lior carries forward is the museum-education insistence that a primary source earns its place in a curriculum only when the editorial frame around it answers a specific question a child is asking — not as a decorative artifact. The six-beat structure is the operating version of that principle, encoded so a Koydo agent can reproduce it from the method dossier alone.

Lior authored the Smithsonian Open Access editorial posture, the rights register for the public-domain primary sources Koydo composes against, and the /research/storybook-rights-posture reference page that documents which Koydo content is original Koydo expression, which links to canonical sources without republication, and which republishes under explicit CC-BY or public-domain terms. The rights posture is the operating contract behind every storybook claim Koydo makes in public. A storybook post that ships under his byline must (a) name the primary source by institution and asset ID, (b) trace the rights register entry for that asset, and (c) run the six-beat structure end-to-end before the post earns a publish gate.

At Koydo he sits with Petra Vance (wisdom steward, method-library editorial) and Margaux Bellfort (microschool operator, storybook distribution into the operator console) on every cross-pillar editorial question. The Maven dossier backing his public byline is on file at ~/Koydo/maven/experts/koydo-blog-lior-feranzo.md. Press inquiries reach the steward team through press@koydo.app; methodology questions route through research@koydo.app.