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In the last fifteen years we witnesseda new ethnographic wave of studies thatfocused on practising architecture. Thisbody of research aimed at grasping thesocio-material dimension of architecturalpractice. They all relied on the assumptionthat architecture is collective but it isshared with a variety of nonhumans.
These "new ethnographies" generated"thick descriptions" of the knowledgepractices of different participants indesign. This issue of "Ardeth" collectscontributions that will address the ecologyof contemporary architectural practice, scrutinizing it as involving actors withvariable ontology, scale and politics;exploring empirically different formats ofdesign and reflecting on the importanceof ethnography for understandingcontemporary architectural practices.