The year is a vital stage in the transition from fundamental understandings of the subject towards a personal critical position, achieved with the completion of the Degree. To enable this there is more freedom in Second Year to explore radical conceptions and challenging contexts. There are opportunities for students to be experimental and explorative in architectural design thinking, production and representation. The complexities of the city become the setting for the investigation and application of ideas. The acts of researching, understanding and applying, as techniques within a design process are demonstrated and practiced.