
Figure 1
Discussion on mappings and research design with participants from the four partner universities at the first meeting of the ‘Mapping/Reflecting/Developing’ project, held at the University of Liechtenstein in Vaduz in November 2018 [Photo courtesy of the authors].

Figure 2
One of the first unelaborated mappings of concepts and directions of the research project coming out of the initial discussions [Photo courtesy of the authors].

Figure 3
Intermediate mapping of the project and its relations of contents and works, produced at a workshop session with the project participants [Courtesy of the authors].

Figure 4
Architecture, architectural practice and architectural design research as agonistic stages. Drawing and image of the ‘Walled House’ project, excerpted from the PhD project by Johan Liekens [Drawing by Johan Liekens/STUDIOLO architectuur; photograph by Stijn Bollaert].

Figure 5
Round-table debates arranged at KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas in Gent in May 2019 on two topics: ‘The personal, the inter-subjective and the common in Research by Design’ and ‘How to teach research-by-design in architecture in a PhD program’ [Courtesy of the authors].

Figure 6
Round-table debates arranged at KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas in Gent in May 2019, on the same two topics [Photograph by Christoph Michels].

Figure 7
Workshop discussion with projects participants in one of the transnational meetings, here at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg in November 2019 [Courtesy of the authors].

Figure 8
Round-table debate and presentations by invited researchers and practitioners on the topic of methodological approaches, arranged at Chalmers University in November 2019 [Courtesy of the authors].

Figure 9
Round-table gatherings and other phenomena around the topic of ‘Complicating Machines’, deploying themselves as agonistic stages for negotiation and sense-making in the research process for the PhD thesis by Johan Liekens [Photographic collage by Johan Liekens].
