Design is immersed in a constructive and destructive material cycle; a never-ending production of objects that negatively impact our environment. Upcycling design is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless or unwanted products into new materials.

- Adaptive Reuse
- Algorithmic Design
- Building with Earth
- Dealing with Nature
- Social Inclusion
- Passive Design
- Urban Catalysts
- Watery Territories
- Geographies of Extraction
- Building Living Systems
- Affordable Housing
- Indigenous Practices
- Healthy City
- Degrowth
- Cycling Infrastructure
- Thermodynamic Systems
- Kinetic City
- Multiscale Approach
- Recycling & Upcycling
- New Working Habits
- Addressing Vacancy
- Green Transition
- Heat Emergency
- Collective Housing
- Unspoiled Landscape
- Ecologies of the Envelope
- Food Production
- Construction Ecology
- Megablock Urbanism
- On Site Robotics
- Co-living
- The 15-Minute City
- Biotech Architecture
- Out of Wood
- Emergency Housing
- Smart City
- Soft Infrastructures
- Sourcing Locally
- Lightweight Envelopes
- Emergent Material Ecologies
- Extraterrestrial
- Alternative Domesticity
- Optimized Construction
- Operative Mapping
- Modular Design
- Mute Icons
- Post-pandemic Design
- Waste Management
- Biophilic Design
- Walkable Cities
- Designing in Extreme Environments
- Sea Level Rise
- Performative Envelopes
- Architecture and Gender
- Inclusionary & Exclusionary Space
- Agency in Architecture
- Biomimetic Architecture
- Socio-Ecological Design
- Micro Living
- Disassembly Strategies
- Racial Justice
- Vernacular Design