AIARG 2026
Architectural Inquiry and Applied Research Group Annual Conference
Presented through the three-platform system: a live demonstration of how thermodynamic accountability, participatory agency, and multi-scalar spatial research work as a unified epistemological instrument.
The Three-Platform Architecture
EXPLORE
Multi-scalar spatial navigation
The spatial layer. Terra Forma cartography, Dymaxion-informed projections, Critical Zone section drawings, multi-scalar navigation from geological time to building detail.
explore.curricula.devENGAGE
Participatory agency & the Boussole
The agency layer. The Boussole compass for collective orientation. Carte des Puissances for mapping actors, power, and communities of practice. Participatory research in action.
engage.curricula.devENERGETIC
Thermodynamic accountability
The accountability layer. EMERGY accounting, Lagrangian material tracking, ΔE per intervention. Making visible what every material, every action, every process actually costs in energy terms.
energetic.curricula.devHow the Three Connect at AIARG
EXPLORE provides the spatial context — Critical Zone maps, multi-scalar site investigations, the Fuller–Arènes cartographic comparison rendered as navigable visualisations.
ENGAGE provides the political and participatory layer — the Boussole compass positions each research group's findings within a shared field of agency and collective orientation.
ENERGETIC provides the accountability — EMERGY values fill the compass with measurable evidence. Material trajectories translate spatial and political decisions into thermodynamic consequences.
Together, the three platforms make a single claim: research is not complete until it accounts for what things actually cost — in energy, in political consequence, in spatial change.
AIARG 2026 Sessions
Energy Accounting in Architectural Education
EMERGY pedagogy — from abstract to actionable
Workshop + showcaseLagrangian Construction Ecology in Practice
Material trajectory tracking with student groups
Paper presentation + discussionCartographic Convergence: Fuller ↔ Arènes
Two views, one Earth — collaborative mapping
Interactive sessionThe AIARG Triad: Explore / Engage / Energetic
Live demonstration of the three-platform system
Platform demonstrationAT6012 Design Research: Technology Transformations
The eight student research groups of AT6012 — each investigating a distinct dimension of Marseille's urban metabolism — constitute the primary research substrate for the AIARG demonstration. Their findings populate the three platforms with real site data, real material inventories, and real community encounters.
Engage with the full triad
Site investigations, multi-scalar navigations, and Gaïa-graphic visualisations for each AT6012 research theme.
The cartographic convergence rendered as interactive, navigable comparison visualisations.
Position the AT6012 research groups within collective fields of agency and orient toward shared action.
The participatory research methodology underpinning the Marseille investigations — open, relational, accountable.