Mark Stanley is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design and co-founder of StudioMARS, a speculative design-research practice. His research and teaching study architecture’s entanglements with larger systems of culture, technology, and ecology. His projects imagine the agency of architecture and the architect within these relationships and are often produced as speculative design conveyed through experimental representation—stories, narratives, and characters in addition to drawings, images, and models—where architecture is often one part of a larger critical project grappling with the present conditions of our collective existence in the 21st Century.