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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The notion of portals to alternative multispaces where normalcy is subverted into magical situations has been a feature of fiction for centuries. Architects and educators <jats:bold>Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg</jats:bold> have catalogued some of these fictive realms and mechanisms, and developed their own augmented‐reality portal to show the results of their research.</jats:p>

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The continuing digital tsunami is offering enhanced spatial opportunities for architects. The interaction of real space and virtual space can be choreographed along a spectrum that ranges from our mobile phone screens to full bodily immersion in digital reality. Architect <jats:bold>Lucia Tahan</jats:bold> exploits these possibilities in her design work using various methods of spatial computing. Here she takes us through some of her recent experiments and thoughts.</jats:p>

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>There are many examples of large technological infrastructure insinuating its unsightly or bland but big manifestations in our cities, and clandestinely covering itself in deceitful architectural details and typologies. Architect and academic <jats:bold>Wendy W Fok</jats:bold> co‐led the collaborative Hidden Infrastuctures project, which reveals these tactics, used by both data and extraction technologies, to illustrate a world of subterfuge where all is not what it seems.</jats:p>

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>There has been much written speculation about leaving the body on entering fully virtual space. However, it is clear that the only reason we can experience virtual reality is precisely because we are embodied. Transdisciplinary researcher and architectural artist <jats:bold>Paula Strunden</jats:bold> works at the intersection of the real and the virtual, exploiting our body's important conduits for complete sensory and visceral experience of augmented space.</jats:p>

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In the grip of the viral contagion of the recent past and its attendant lockdowns, many of us started working from home for the first time and transitioning to various online communication methods such as Zoom or Teams. However, home working is not a new phenomenon; our domestic spaces have always had to embrace and adapt to multifunctional activities they may not have been designed for. The introduction of online spaces, though, adds a new layer to consider. Historian and writer <jats:bold>Holly Nielsen</jats:bold> explores our contemporary domestic condition, its histories and its interaction with electronic space.</jats:p>

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Traditional architectural thought and practice decrees that buildings should be spatially homogeneous, revealing themselves to their viewers and users as episodic and carefully orchestrated wholes. <jats:bold>Giacomo Pala</jats:bold> argues that the world is more complex than this, and that the digital has further enhanced its heterogeneous festival of formal, semiotic and spatial jump‐cutting to establish conjunctions from which we can be architecturally inspired.</jats:p>

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Artist Ibiye Camp exploits the supposed exactitude of digital technologies and uses its potential for glitches as imaginative tools. Her work focuses on the African continent and its diaspora. Guest‐Editor <jats:bold>Owen Hopkins</jats:bold> talked to her about her working methods and the spatial opportunities they provide.</jats:p>

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Architectural educators <jats:bold>Joshua Bard and Francesca Torello</jats:bold> embrace numerous digital technologies to subvert issues of scale, framing, materiality, inside and outside to provoke viewers into contemplating the current nature of architecture and its discourse. Their inspiration is Sir John Soane's Museum in London, which is a multilayered conversation between objects and their interrelationships with themselves and their settings.</jats:p>

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Very Big Art uses a variety of both virtual and real media to create a nexus where architecture, the public realm, urban design, performance, ephemerality and art meet at an often colossal scale – a 21st‐century reworking of the notion of the architectural ‘folly’. Architectural designer and educator <jats:bold>Andrew Kovacs</jats:bold> describes a brief history of some of the early exponents of arch‐art, and leads us through some recent examples, including the output of his own practice.</jats:p>

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The integration of the real and the digital – particularly gaming engines – offers architects and designers the opportunity to develop narrative environments that can be predicated on speculative fiction. Such spaces, landscapes and buildings explore magical panoramas created not just by human ingenuity, but also by machine and nonhuman intelligence. Artist and writer <jats:bold>Alice Bucknell</jats:bold> takes us into some of these possible worlds.</jats:p>