How will we live together

How Will We Live Together? reimagines architecture as a practice of coexistence—between people, species, technologies, and environments. Confronting the intertwined crises of housing, climate, and capital, the studio explored how design might decolonise, decommodify, and decentre the human, advancing spatial, environmental, housing and digital justice on our shared planet.

Projects proposed new modes of living and practicing grounded in inclusivity, care, and collective governance, rethinking property and labour relations, and the architectures of ownership that reproduce inequality. Others challenged systemic exclusions through anti-racist, rhetorical, and emancipatory architectures, confronting the affective and bureaucratic systems that embed contemporary alienation. Coexistence was also pursued through multispecies and technological entanglements—from AI co-authorship and speculative imagery to slow ecological remediation, material experimentation, and the everyday practices and processes that make architecture a political production.

Through expanded spatial, material, and representational practices—fieldwork, counter-mapping, social engagement, analogue and digital experimentation, making materials, speculative image-making, and the design of systems, policy, and standards—students redefined architectural agency as distributed, ethical, and insurgent. The resulting works resist architecture’s capture by market and extractive logics, proposing instead a discipline that interrogates the politics of space, images and materials, and reimagines the remit and responsibilities of the architect to come.

Studio Lead: Jacqui Alexander