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Issue 2.1

Describe, Explain, and Predict

Andrzej Zarzycki (Executive Editor)
Editorial

Contemporary design practice and education aim to address pressing social, environmental, and technological problems. To realize these aspirations requires systematic and well-defined (re)search into human conditions, materiality, and the spatiality of architecture. This is achieved through innovative and rigorous inquiry based on repetitive results, the ability to validate them, and the transferability of the knowledge. While scholarly work describes and explains the nature of a process or a phenomenon, applied research also allows for the prediction of future outcomes—a projective explanation facilitating new discoveries…

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