It reimagines the logic behind urgent spatial conditions—such as domesticity, mobility, and interface—not to solve these systems, but to recompose them through speculative methods and research-driven design. Rē’s work also attends to global spatial entanglements and post-anthropocentric modes of dwelling, tracing how design mediates our relationships with the planet and its more-than-human inhabitants. Working at the intersection of systems thinking and political theory, Rē explores how architecture might interrogate, invert, or bypass the forces that shape it, rather than merely materialize them. Its speculative frameworks hold space for critical questions and generate conceptual tools for institutional and civic reflection. The practice begins with unraveling to ask what might emerge when familiar orders are undone. Rē crafts proposals that are intentionally unreal—not as escapist fictions, but as research prompts to surface what has been excluded from the realm of the possible and to reveal the spatial consequences of normalized decisions. Its work takes the form of speculative design proposals, narrative environments, spatial constructs, conceptual prototypes, and collaborative inquiry, treating architecture as a site for questions, reflection, and dialogue.
The name Rē signals the studio’s ethos of experimentation and iteration: to do again, return, revise, and repeat. Each project begins with a prefix—an entry point, a conceptual fracture in reality that opens space for reimagining and rethinking design’s role as inquiry.
Rē is structured around thematic inquiries. The Rē/series frames the evolving conceptual terrain of the practice: a set of speculative what-if or as-if scenarios explored through writing, narrative, and design fiction. Each operates as a research probe into systems that shape everyday life.
Exploring thresholds where humans, nonhumans, and technologies meet and co-create space.
Tracing hidden global systems—supply chains, resource flows, and planetary interdependence.
Reckoning with design’s unintended impacts, aftermaths, and ethical contradictions.
Rē/forum supports:
- Open calls and commissions for essays, design proposals, and research contributions.
- Collaborative publications that surface overlooked questions and narratives.
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Public programs and dialogues that create spaces for exchange, critique, and new alliances.
The forum’s inquiries span Rē’s core conceptual families—domesticity, mobility, interface, entanglement, and consequences—treating them as starting points for experimentation rather than fixed categories. Each project is an invitation to test, contest, and expand what speculative architecture can do, as both design inquiry and civic research.
This is not a platform for consensus. It is a forum for friction, curiosity, and unfinished questions. We recognize that engaging with systems, infrastructures, and futures is an inherently political act. Therefore, Rē/forum is not apolitical, nor aligned with any singular perspective. It is a space that centers human experience and planetary entanglements, fosters dialogue, and holds tension without closing off conversation in favor of fixed certainties.
If you are interested in contributing, collaborating, or supporting future initiatives, we welcome your ideas.
Trace is an evolving record of the studio’s methods, questions, and iterative experiments—part process archive, part research journal. It is a provisional space where sketches, notes, and reflections accumulate over time. Here, speculation extends beyond individual projects into the practice of making itself: the experiments that don’t resolve, the ideas that remain partial, and the questions that return in new forms. This process also includes working with generative AI as a collaborator, testing how computational tools can assist, challenge, and expand the studio’s methods of inquiry.
By making these processes visible, Rē/Trace treats the act of building a speculative practice as an inquiry in its own right. It invites others to consider how incompleteness, doubt, and iteration—whether human or machine-generated—can become tools for imagining otherwise.
If you're interested in collaborating, curating, co-developing a project, or supporting our work, reach out. We welcome new conversations, proposals, and provocations.
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