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Echoes of the InhumanEchoes from the InHuman is a publication exploring human-computer collaboration through the medium of the book. Designed in partnership with machines, it brings together 160 procedurally generated illustrations and 30 texts created using a recurrent neural network. The image generation system was developed by U-P, with the text generation network developed by Max Woolf.
We maintain an ongoing programme of study and self-directed projects, exploring questions that sit adjacent to and often inform our wider practice. This section brings together those investigations. Recent threads of enquiry have centred on ecological thinking, the material and conceptual possibilities of reuse, and the increasingly connected relationship between digital and physical environments. These investigations take many forms, from written pieces and visual experiments to prototypes and small publications. We see this research as essential to how the studio evolves. A space to test ideas, build new vocabularies, and consider how design might respond to the conditions of the present.