The New Normal. An Introduction

I once had to remind a student, whose speculative design project was about “the first human born in space,” that all humans, hurtling around the sun as we are, were born in space

This is, however, a “new normal” shift on which our knowledge institutions and economies are choking.

Now we have the opposite problem: there is more information and more data about the world at hand than we can possibly handle. Upon querying the world, we need a summary of a summary of the answer before we can make sense of it.

The program is based on a long-term collaboration between faculty, students and local and global experts from varied disciplinary backgrounds.

Anthropocene binds social time to geologic time,

the future is a better key to the present than the past.

formal analysis, scenario development, site modeling and programming, speculative design, quantitative cultural data analysis and visualization, and the contemporary philosophy of technology, design, and aesth

The future has not been cancelled. The future is where we will live and grow, but first we need to catch up to the present.

One of the key games for any architecture is based on who and what is inside and/or outside.

to make the future look Russian, we will have to cultivate that most Russian ethos: alienation.