The next revolution will be ccosmological.

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The Cosmological Turn

We are witnessing a civilizational threshold. 
Social and geopolitical orders are shifting, economies and ecologies are collapsing, and the very foundations of how we understand reality and create meaning are shaken. 
The growing acknowledgement of planetary vulnerability and the deep rupture in our belief systems coincide with a technological revolution of unprecedented reach. Advanced communication tools and computational intelligence demand a complete renewal of the infrastructure and practice for learning and producing knowledge. 
The threshold we currently witness is a cosmological turn: a reset in which the foundations are being laid for the practices of future world-making.

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Space-Making is World-Making

If we want to create new worlds, we have to find new practices of learning and making. 

Across the deep history of civilizations, cosmologies have established a relationship between above and below — between the worlds we inhabit and the beliefs attached to them, between what lies beyond appearance and the inner constitution that allows us to experience and to act. 

Cosmologies have been built over centuries as realized and imagined spatial constellations: tools for orientation, meaning, and spiritual depth, instruments for consciousness and creation. Cosmological world-making is space-making in a fundamental sense — cosmologies establish the order that shapes us.

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The Educational Revolution

The deepest crisis of this transitional age is not political or economic but educational. 

This is because new technologies are already reshaping how we understand, imagine, and produce new realities. The question is not whether to engage with these new tools, but how we grow with them, how we can take an active position in their formation.

The tools carry the worldview of their making. If we train them according to our belief systems and values, if we learn to use them as agents for the cosmologies we intend to establish, enhanced intelligence will work in the service of a deeper understanding, and a higher consciousness of how to make new worlds.

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Architecture is Cosmotechnics*

In ancient cultures, technology was a cosmological practice. 

Industrialization and the modernist worldview turned technology into the template through which the world was conceived and made. Even where the modernist paradigm is now being surpassed, technological rationality continues to address the problems it created with the same tools that produced them. 

Cosmotechnics — the practice of technologies aligned with cosmological worldviews — is never a neutral, universal instrument of rationalist order, but a specific way of constructing a world, grounded in localized knowledge and culture.

The present knowledge revolution is cosmological. While the academic institutions of the modern age were built on polytechnic disciplines, the educational practices of the future must be assembled under the framework of the polycosmos.

❉ The concept of cosmotechnics is developed in the work of philosopher Yuk Hui, particularly The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics (2016) and Recursivity and Contingency (2019). Hui argues that technology has never been a universal phenomenon but always emerges from and reproduces a particular cosmological order — what he calls the unity of cosmic and moral order in any given culture. 

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Towards the Polycosmos

There is no single cosmology. No universal spatial reason. No neutral way of making space. Cultures and traditions have always inhabited genuinely different worlds. 

Polycosmological education takes this plurality as its working ground and as its working method. It draws on cosmopolitics, on anthropological multi-perspectivism, on indigenous and non-Western spatial traditions, and on the long human practice of aligning space to cosmos — from the wisdom of ancient civilizations to contemporary inquiries into neuroplasticity and the constitution of the real.

Existing institutional frameworks cannot carry what is already under way. Reforms and structural adaptations will not be enough. What is needed are new educational infrastructures and practices that empower us to shape the next cosmological turn consciously before it shapes us.

❉  Academy for people who build worlds

POLYCOSMOS is an academy and learning community for design research and space-making. It is founded for those who shape space — architects, designers, spatial practitioners, researchers, artists — and for those whose work touches the making of worlds in physical form. It develops spatial intelligence as a contemporary cosmological practice: the capacity to translate worldviews into material, experiential, and lived form. POLYCOSMOS recovers knowledge from ancient traditions and indigenous practices, brings it into engagement with the tools and conditions of the present, and works toward the worlds that the next cosmological turn will ask us to inhabit.

The academy works through direct engagement — with spaces, materials, bodies, and one another. Its programs move between online exchange and situated practice: residencies, on-site laboratories, retreats, and performative encounters rooted in local cultures, ecological contexts, and the specific intelligence of place. POLYCOSMOS is nomadic by design, anchored in hubs of particular weight, sustained by a constellation of teachers and mentors drawn from architecture, design, philosophy, anthropology, contemplative and indigenous traditions, artistic and somatic practice.

POLYCOSMOS is built on three pillars that define the foundation of its educational practice:


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Cosmopolitical Agency

We no longer design for a world that is singular or exclusively human. Every space participates in a field of forces — material, ecological, technological, ancestral, invisible — that shape how reality comes into being. Cosmopolitics recognizes that many worlds coexist, each grounded in its own cosmology, each making its own claim to presence. Space-making becomes a practice of re-membering, aligning, and assembling — between human and non-human, between inherited conditions and emerging futures. POLYCOSMOS cultivates the agency to act consciously within this field: to hold space for the encounter of worlds, and to shape the conditions in which new forms of coexistence can emerge.


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Cosmotechnical Creation

Every tool, system, and infrastructure carries a worldview. Artificial intelligence is transforming the structure of knowledge, spatial production, and creative practices at unprecedented scale, and the cosmologies it inherits will become the cosmologies it propagates. If we want to shape machine intelligence rather than be shaped by it, we have to take an active position. We have to cultivate what is essentially human: embodied intelligence, creativity, the depth of consciousness that no system can simulate, the forms of knowing that emerge through presence, practice, and place. To design today is to reclaim technological agency — to insist that our tools serve the cosmologies we choose. Space-making becomes cosmotechnical creation: the conscious shaping of technologies toward the worlds we actually want to build and inhabit.

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Cosmological Space-Making

When cosmologies become lived experience, they are bound to a local place and culture, embedded in daily life. Tied to a particular geography and imagination, they define how we relate to ourselves, to each other, and to the environment. POLYCOSMOS investigates the relationship between the macro-sphere — cultural identity, belief systems, cosmological and geographic constellations, the memory held by the ground — and the micro-sphere of the body: how we sense, how we experience, how we carry our own history, how we feel ourselves as part of a larger cosmos. From this inquiry, and through the embodied practices and spatial intelligence that each local cosmology unfolds, POLYCOSMOS develops educational formats in which space-making becomes a cosmological act.