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.