Footprint 35, 'Engaging Cosmotechnical Difference in Architecture and Urbanism,’ explores the intersection between architecture, technology and cosmology. It does so by examining the concept of ‘cos-motechnics’, a term coined by the philosopher Yuk Hui, which suggests an irreducible connec-tion between cosmology and technology. Cosmotechnics bears directly upon a range of architec-tural and urban issues, including debates on preservation, decolonialism, and environmental justice. The contributions to this issue expand on the theoretical and practical intersections be-tween cosmotechnics and architecture. They do so by foregrounding the productive tension be-tween the local and universal dimensions of technology, within the situated contexts of different cultures. Together, they highlight the challenges and possibilities of cosmotechnics as a project of reinvention.

The issue includes research articles by Maryia Rusak, Roi Salgueiro Barrio and Sasha McKinlay, Simon Weir and Sara Rich, and Joel P.W. Letkemann. It also contains review articles by Masamichi Tamura, Simon Sadler, Alan Díaz Alva, and Robert Alexander Gorny. The issue con-cludes with a visual essay by Diseño Detonante, and an interview with Yuk Hui by the issue editors.

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Dulmini Perera and Samuel Koh