New Vibes alludes to all things new, emergent, experimental, and deeply immersed in questions about what architecture currently is and how we define and form new ecologies of design and practice. Beyond the 10,000-pound gorilla in the room called AI, there are hints of a range of exciting—and at times deeply skeptical—sensibilities, ways of working, and cultural shifts within architecture that merit closer examination and understanding. There may even be larger systems of relationships or “ecologies” that coalesce these tendencies into coherent groups. Distinct conceptual directions include multi-hyphenates, climate futures, the non-normative, hyper-objects, entanglement, Indigenous epistemologies, hip hop architecture, the incomplete, slop, and many more.
