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RESEARCH BACKGROUND: The Practice of Spatial Thinking documents the latest tools developed in the world-leading Design Practice Program in RMIT's School of Architecture and Design. The editors - van Schaik and Ware - are recognised internationally for their articulation and development of this form of research. The catalogue introduces and summarises the design practice research of 14 practices. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: Mitsogianni's text examines process-based architectural design (a branch of architectural design process), using her practice and body of work to consider a complex array of questions and issues that are associated with working in this way. By completing research into the field Mitsogianni argues that contemporary process-based work is built on an inherited foundation of ideas that are often considered to be naturally linked to this way of working and that despite an evolving of these methods in contemporary practice, these fundamental assumptions continue to be maintained; are rarely specifically acknowledged and can be seen to constrain this type of practice. The persistent, underlying assumptions about working in this way are not an inherent property of this type of practice. Mitsogianni demonstrates other ways to use process-based design away from these traditions, capturing original research and propositions which are offered to the field of architectural design methods. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: This catalogue is the outcome of research that was funded by an ARC Discovery Grant (van Schaik & Ware). The Design Practice Program the catalogue explores has been reviewed in two leading international journals: Kester Rattenbury, 'Here be buildings' AR (Architecture Review) Academic Annual 2014, pp. 69-71; and Kester Rattenbury, 'The imagination game', Royal Institute of British Architects Journal (RIBAJ), 5 Jan 2015.