Tag along on our discovery tour: 22 contributions take you on a trip covering curious, fun, or engaging developments in design and architecture in 17 countries. Small but significant snippets from the enormity of our globe, our cultures, and the current moment. It’s about losing: from the Roman column in the Chinese countryside to pop culture in Japan, the scruffy Chinese 90s, and a magnificent Swiss Ice-Beauty. Tales about cultural transformation: an Indonesian post-colonial mind-fuck in Jakarta, reflecting the ugliness of Australia due to mindless imperialism, while appreciating the complexity of documenting Indian urban and cultural development, or describing the pervasiveness of the globalized leisure-driven smooth city. Of parables: of a tale of two Mexican airports, being naked in Denmark, and developing the next generation of cars in the US. There’s criticism on the Right with a Czech house built for a right-wing politician, and criticism on the Left with an inability to effectively express itself in Venice, and a glimpse at the other building biennale we have been collectively ignoring in Munich.