Table of Contents

Introduction: Collective Intelligence in Design (Christopher Hight and Chris Perry).

Agent Intellects: Pattern as a Form of Thought (Ed Keller and Carla Leitao).

CONTINUUM: A Self-Engineering Creature-Culture (Pia Ednie-Brown and Alisa Andrasek).

Language, Life, Code (Alexander R Galloway and Eugene Thacker).

Critical Practice: Protocol for a Fused Technology (Aaron Sprecher, Chandler Ahrens and Eran Neuman).

Collective Cognition: Neural Fabrics and Social Software (Therese Tierney).

Design Research on Responsive Display Prototypes: Integrating Sensing, Information and Computation Technologies (David Small and John Rothenberg).

Does Collaboration Work? (Kevin Kennon). 

Strength in Numbers (David Salomon).

The AADRL: Design, Collaboration and Convergence (Brett Steele).

Associative Practices in the Management of Complexity (Tom Verebes).

Designing Commonspaces: Riffing with Michael Hardt on the Multitude and Collective Intelligence (Christopher Hight and Michael Hardt).

Responsive Systems / Appliance Architectures (Branden Hookway and Chris Perry).

Parallel Processing: Design / Practice (David Erdman, Marcelyn Gow, Ulrika Karisson and Chris Perry).

After BitTorrent: Darknets to Native Data (Anthony Burke).

Working with Wiki, by Design (Andrew Burrow and Jane Burry).

Computational Intelligence: The Grid as a Post-Human Network (Philippe Morel).

Evolving Synergy: OCEAN Currents, Current OCEANs and Why Networks Must Displace Themselves (Michael Hansel).

Treatment 1: Notes from an Informal Discussion on Interinstitutional Design Research and Image Production (Benjamin Bratton and Hernan Diaz-Alonso).

Interior Eye: Modernising the Morgan Library (Jayne Merkel).

Practice Profile: Cyber House Rules: James Law Cybertecture International (Anna Koor).

Building Profile: Idea Store, Whitechapel (Jeremy Melvin).

Home Run: Adelaide Court (Bruce Stewart).

McLean's Nuggets (Will McLean).

About the Author

Chris Perry is a graduate of Columbia University where he completed a Masters of Architecture. He spent two years working as a project designer for Stan Allen before founding his own practice servo with three partners. He is a visiting professor at Cornell University of Architecture and a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts.

Christopher Hight holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and Humanities from the London Consortium. He is a theorist and a designer who is currently an assistant professor at the Rice University School of Architecture, where he is the editor of the publication programme, Architecture At Rice. He is a founding member of the Do-group, Rice's design research studio and a partner in mesolith, an incubator for architectural culture.