Designing Living Bricks: The Architectural Drawing as Conversational Platform, published in the second issue of the peer-reviewed journal Ardeth (Bottega: Ecology of Design Practice, edited by Albena Yaneva), argues that the architectural drawing, as a technology for thinking and for communicating design ideas between project stakeholders, has remained largely unfazed by the advent of actor-network theory (ANT) and the so-called ‘ethnographic turn.’ Rather than changing to reflect a distributed understanding of agency or the lived ongoingness of projects and buildings, the drawing continues to describe a simple line (from agent to patient) and to congeal into artifacts used to impart commands, increase the architect’s status, or construct brands (the monologue-drawing and the brand-drawing). From the perspective of Living Architecture, an EU-funded research scheme combining architecture, bio-energy and synthetic biology, the paper proposes new modes of drawing (the medium-drawing, the exaptation-drawing and the seed-drawing) that challenge binary abstractions and demand that the architect relinquish a measure of authorship and control to engage in conversations with the other—large and small, disciplinary and nondisciplinary, human and nonhuman, alive and inert. The full paper can be read here.