Tom has significant experience running cross-disciplinary exploratory design-based work to generate new understanding of lived space, acknowledging the underpinning importance of technologies whilst critically addressing culturally generated ways of their use and application. Case studies are used to propose new, globally applicable, complex and novel forms of urbanism and architectural types. Tensions between place, built and cultural heritage and ubiquitous ephemeral digital space are the basis to design and propose testable future models for resilient and sustainable human centred space.