AALU explores design within and beyond normative aesthetic and performative proposals, as we confront the processes, landscapes and territories of planetary urbanisation and the environmental, racial, socioeconomic and health-related crises they have triggered. Contemporary planetary urbanisation is structured by policies that respond to the dominant capitalist system governing our societies, economies and ecologies. Beyond the design of single buildings, LU develops spatial policies that directly impact urban and rural landscapes: design strategies and models, innovative regulatory plans and visual decision-making tools that integrate design within world-ecology frameworks.