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Languages and Vocabularies highlights how key elements such as sound, (vernacular) speech, source code, writing, and lexicons can be alternative materials for contemporary design practices, and play pivotal roles in shaping our social, political, ecological, and economic landscapes.

Remapping Collaborations suggests the formation of new modes of collaboration by researching spatial and design practices to navigate the complexities of an increasingly convoluted and fractured geopolitical landscape.

Within the scope of the Collecting Otherwise theme, the Research team develops innovative methodologies and tools for heritage practices that move beyond linear and canonical views of past, present, and future.

Computational and Data Cultures (CDC) emerges from the need for critical examinations of new and advanced technologies, such as generative AI systems and quantum computing, "lower tech” digital infrastructures, protocols, and their creatives uses.

Regenerative Practices are practices that aim to directly or indirectly increase the life-sustaining capacity of the planet, for human and more-than-human life, on scales from the micro-habitat to the ecosystem, the bioregion and the biosphere at large.