Spyropoulos Lab
Within the contemporary condition, new conceptual terrains emerge that raise questions of agency and intelligence within a deep ecology of our environment. The work explored examines environmental phenomena in the service of sustaining life. The following are attempts to see "phenomenon as technology" aiming to expand the conversation on climate matters. Beyond material specification and net zero strategies, the challenges we face today may speak to the need to explore and prepare for a world that is ever more extreme and unstable. If it is environmental, social or political - the circumstances are planetary and necessitate strategies that go beyond mitigating our past mistakes and preparing for what is to come.
Research Agenda 2026
EVERYTHING INTELLIGENCE
Today, we find ourselves in a moment where new ways of thinking are emerging that open up questions about agency and intelligence within the wider ecology that sustains us. Our work looks at environmental and technological phenomena as a means of supporting life. It examines intelligence both artificial and natural with an emphasis in the non-human. The challenges we face today point to the need to prepare for a world that is becoming ever more extreme and unstable. Whether we are talking about environmental, social, or political forces, the issues are planetary in scale. And they call for strategies that go beyond simply correcting past mistakes; they require us to actively prepare for what is to come. Intelligence is explored through research that examine Architectural Intelligence as a means to construct an evolving partnership with the systems in an attempt to prototype new models of engagement.
