Diagrams: Tropes Tools and Abstract Machines examines the pervasive roles of diagrams as
analytical generative narrative and critical devices manifest in design practices by
architects and non-architects that draw on thick cultural milieus and that operate at personal
architectural and urban scales. What are potentials of diagrams beyond representation as
situated cultural practices corporeal engagement and choreographic script as instruments of
speculation and invention as manifestation of ideas and incrimination of ideology as abstract
machines in scenarios of allopoiesis autopoiesis and cosmopoiesis?
