This book, co-published by Sternberg Press and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, edited by Giovanna Borasi, Albert Ferré, Francesco Garutti, Jayne Kelley and Mirko Zardini, is the result of collective reflections on architecture, contemporary social concerns, institutions and the public undertaken by the Canadian Centre for Architecture in recent years. Building on years of thematic investigations and a continued questioning of the role of cultural institutions and the issues they face today, the book puts forward the CCA’s own positions and opens them up to a dialogue with designers, curators, photographers, publishers, and other institutions who ask themselves similar questions.