The Collective Brain promotes a vision of a future architecture practice that is diverse, distributed and non-hierarchical. It’s a device for design research that archives and shares knowledge, as well as a model for a practice that challenges old exclusionary and unsustainable labor models. It organizes individual research inputs into a visual-spatial network that reveals unanticipated links between ideas, disciplines and people. This collective language is a tool that allows an unsanitized design process, fraught with the productive friction of many voices working together, and nurtures a multi-authored architecture that invites both participation and critique. It is also an archive for a changing body of knowledge whose form reconfigures as it grows, with the ability to filter,be confronted by the unexpected, and easily share findings through automated publishing.