Automated Architecture (AUAR) co-director Mollie Claypool discusses recent work of AUAR’s design and tech practice and research laboratory. AUAR’s work radically rethinks the barriers of privilege, money and power in the housing system by creating opportunities for wider groups of stakeholders to get hands-on with new forms of architecture and housing utilising automation. Our most recent project Block West, a collaboration with citizen-led digital arts organisation Knowle West Media Centre and funded by Transforming Construction Network Plus, takes values-centred approach to collaboration with local communities using modular methods of construction and democratising technology so communities are empowered to create the homes they need better and faster.