A new generation of architects will be gathering numbers in the coming years, born in the eighties and brought up in a globalised, digitised world. While most of our profession remains transfixed on the lessons of "modern" masterpieces now fifty to eighty years old and fading, we are the generation that will face perhaps the greatest wave of cultural forces since the industrial revolution - the fall of western economic hegemony, natural resource drought and ecosystem collapse, and the digital reconstruction of our social fabric. How architecture will adapt while retaining its nobility is a question people of our generation will have to answer. Until then, is how we are being taught really preparing us to ask this question, and at what time in our young careers should we start working out how to respond?
The Diagram of Everything...
proposes to establish a collaboration of architects in their twenties working towards an architecture for this our age, a new CIAM, a new Team X, a network of thinkers to reconnect the current discourses of architecture to a world of subcultures only we and our peers will inhabit. Currently in Sydney and Paris, we seek contributors for a rebirth of the manifesto, a redefinition of our purpose, a reconception of the values of our age, and in a short time, a journal to publish the progress of this work. If you have ambitions that touch the future of your profession, join us. If you have projects, sketches, writings or a simple desire to freestyle your megalomania in our ear, write to 
Kerwin Datu, Paris, March 2006