In the Words of Darwin Part 1 Project 2024 Amelie Badesha University of Nottingham Nottingham | UK "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change" (Darwin, 1809).Nature, described as 'red in tooth and claw' and embodying the evolutionary theory of the survival of the fittest, is unsettlingly being morphed by our symbiotic relationship with technology, setting us at this current Darwinian junction.While architecture cannot carry out the act of evolution or shape our human nature. This project offers a sanctuary to challenge our evolutionary trajectory, by creating a meditative digital rehabilitation centre that counters Darwin's "advantageous" individualistic and competitive tendencies, but embodies an altruistic view of society as an interconnected network where each member contributes to collective evolutionary survival and prosperity — "Either we will all survive together, or we will most assuredly all go extinct separately." (Corning, 2003)However, this project synchronously explores the implications of post-humanist evolution, prospecting the fusion of human and machine through the widespread factory level integration of a permanent microchip — in which the distinction between the human body and machine not only blurs but merges. This spotlights our societal expectations for constant connectivity and poses a critical question: Can we ever truly disconnect? Tutor(s)