The AADRL is a work in progress. In both method and practice the lab challenges the orthodoxies of how we discuss, design, fabricate and live within architecture and urbanism. It is a pursuit for adaptive and evolutionary means to allow our environments to participate and evolve with us. Participation is at the heart of this continous project in which self-organized teams of international students bring their knowledge to the lab while engaging with the latest technologies that are reinventing our society. The attempt is to offer more - to treat architecture as a mode of enquiry that extends from material behaviour and artifical intelligence to the challenges of infrastructure and urbanism.

The work featured in this year's Projects Review is our attempt to expand the role that technology plays within the cultural production of space. Our work examines the future of work, living and culture, and proposes design research that examines the means to enable this through three-dimensional printed structures, self-aware and structured robotic agents, multi-authored design urbanism, and swarms of drones.