Introduction Rachel Armstrong and Rolf Hughes Acknowledgement Overview Material Knowledge Rachel Armstrong Primordial Big Bang origin of universe Everything is entangled Strangeness of the mind Where does agency reside? Origin of planet Earth Biogenesis First Great Enfolding A new kind of extinction The first civilisation Strengthening Knowledge Rachel Armstrong and Rolf Hughes Origin of Human Thought Origin of Humans Origin of Thought and Language Early Origins of Formal Knowledge Communities of thinking Development of Modern Science Reconfiguring Knowledge Rolf Hughes Beyond giving an account: the dark continents of research Epistemology and subjectivity The formation of artistic research The description problem in artistic research The concept of exposition in artistic research The challenge of evaluating "unconventional" research outcomes Epistemic plurality Transverse epistemologies Epistemic partiality Extending Knowledge Rachel Armstrong Organa Paradoxa Nonhuman dimensions Worlding Experiments Sym-practices Sym-biosis Sym-biogenesis Sym-poiesis Sym-pathy An Ethics of Care Worlding as an Entangled Practice Vulnerability Imagination Familiarity Empathy Care Provocation Repetition Non-innocent Perspectives Worlding Case Studies Rachel Armstrong and Rolf Hughes 6.1 Performance Creature Box The Capsule of Crossed Destinies Trace Hall 6.2 Artefacts Brick Dialogues Caustic Ophelia Cracked Hermione Living Architecture Exploring Interfaces Synthetic Ethics Expressing Outcomes Monstering: A Transdisciplinary Method for an Unstable World The Temptations of the Nonlinear Ladder Making Monsters Monsters in Utopia Learning from Landscape: Forging Folklore, Tallinn Tales From Victoria Tunnel to Quantum Tunnelling Wicked Home: Sacred Spaces Towards an Ecological Era of Knowledge Exchange 7. Conclusion Rachel Armstrong and Rolf Hughes A new kind of knowledge: Organa Paradoxa Change-making Developing appropriate toolsets Establishing new figures for thinking through Reconfiguring power relations Expanding the nature of experiment Activating Knowledge 8. Epilogue Rolf Hughes 8.1 An Art of Unfolding Index

Rolf Hughes is professor in the epistemology of design-driven research at the Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, and director of artistic research for the Experimental Architecture Group. An interdisciplinary artist and performer, his writing spans creative and critical genres. Rachel Armstrong is professor of experimental architecture at Newcastle University and visiting professor at KU Leuven. She pioneers the interdisciplinary field of "living architecture," which engages the material and technological potency of life within spatial agendas.