Lissitsky’s “project for the affirmation of the new” is the basis of how we see the impetus that drives the writing of briefs.  Thus, in this part of the Common Room we make space, nooks, prounooks, for these projective speculations of methods and thought diagrams.  Briefs are under-represented in publications, but can be considered creative outputs in their own right, often focussed on researches not yet or only partially undertaken.  The brief outlines the search of research and the discourses that may be entered or challenged.