This section of thesis of the 2017-18 academic year included students with projects that explicitly adressed the role of representation in architecture. The year began with a seminar, Representation is Alive, which proclaimed that: representation is alive for speculation; representation is alive for research; and representation is alive for experimentation. With a continued focus on the line and the pixel, the seminar moved between historic source material, computational techniques, scholarship, vintage machines and experimental programming resources as students build the foundations of an architectural thesis. Projects then developed through interconnected exercises, technical explorations, and communal discourse.