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This text reflects on research developed at OMA and in the context of “ADS8. Data Matter: Digital Networks, Data Centers and Post-Human Institutions,” a studio unit led by Kamil Dalkir, Marina Otero Verzier, and Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli at the Royal College of Arts in London.
Intelligence is an Online ↔ Offline collaboration between e-flux Architecture and BIO26| Common Knowledge, the 26th Biennial of Design Ljubljana, Slovenia, within the context of its exhibition catalogues.