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Operating from dual locations in London and Athens, the output of Night Kitchen, the experimental architectural research lab of Ifigeneia Liangi and Daniel Dream, often takes the form of anarchitectural story books, illustrated with congested, postmodern interiors full of colourful objects and artefacts. But these are not random juxtapositions of stuff – they are elaborate, multilayered tableaux, their cross-currents haunted with associations that stretch far and wide across film, sport, literature, memorabilia, art practice and time.

Suggesting a curious comparison between the Victorian séance and the contemporary world of immersive virtual environments, Mike Phillips, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Plymouth, and Director of Research at i-DAT.org, describes the new capabilities of the fulldome, which uses notions of the automatic movements of the planchette, the wooden token that traverses the alphanumeric surface of the notorious Ouija board, as a model for the development of a quasi-participatory audience interface he dubs the ‘phage’. Clusters of phage can be manipulated by the viewer-occupiers of the dome to instigate all manner of formal, scalar and conceptual transpositionings.

Considering the vast datasets that constitute artificial intelligence, it might be assumed that there is no place for the ghostly or ambiguous among the binary logics of the all-knowing algorithm. Explaining that this is not in fact the case, Melbourne-based Professor of Design for Regenerative Futures Chris Speed reveals the tumult of numinous spirits that haunt the data, influencing and impacting the resultant texts and images.

Laid bare by contemporary scanning techniques and technologies, historic buildings reveal a series of nested, diaphanous presences – the membranes of memory and fragments of history. Architectural writer Eva Menuhin investigates a recent project by the University of Greenwich's Captivate: Spatial Modelling Research Group, whose gossamer-threaded architectural representations decode time, movements, changes, additions and destructions of a London Garrison church – a poetic, ghostly ballet between time, building and nature.

From its very inception, architectural preservation, and the specialist conservation practices that have evolved to support it, have occupied a shifting territory of constant quantification and continually evolving legislation. Architectural designer Cameron Stebbing evokes a menagerie of philosophical ideas used to illustrate and explore the notion that traditional recording techniques ignore hidden and veiled presences within our built environment.

The breadth of architectural typologies is waning, or so Perry Kulper, Professor of Architecture at Taubman College, University of Michigan, tells us. Kulper's work has for decades focused on the development of dexterous, agile and creative methodologies for speculating about the possibilities of architecture(s) explored through notions of equivalence, remixing, reinterpreting and reimagining. Developed through seven spatial spectral strategies for an installation at the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial, familiar landmarks of the city are rescaled and combined to become other implements, adornments and spaces, bringing an uncanny familiarity to their propositions.

Film has a long history of spectral association, from the possibilities of projection, the dancing image that hangs in the air, to the translucence of the media itself. Taking inspiration from a Japanese animation, Michael Chapman, Professor and Chair of Architecture and Industrial Design at Western Sydney University, has created a series of works that seek to fill in the haunted blanks and uncanny parallaxes that exist between the space we view and perceive in the filmic sequence and an ‘objective’ reality of that architecture. He uses some of the compositional protocols of the traditional scroll and machinery to produce his proposal – a parallel world that haunts the absences and holes within the original.