The works presented in the exhibition “A TOPOGRAPHY OF CHANCE” close the three year-long cycle on the North Sea. Inspired by the ‘Topographie Anecdotée du Hasard’ by Daniel Spoerri, the studio engaged in an open conversation amid six lines of inquiry (the coexistence between different claims at sea, ranging from extractivism, energy, fishery, ecology, logistics and migration to carbon storage and climatic shifts) regarding the future of the North Sea region. After having disclosed, represented and analysed its past, present, and future geography, in this closing cycle the studio projected and delineated a radically different space for the North Sea territory: a topography of chance. The “table of conversation” presented in the first session of this exhibition website is the topos and, the same time, a performative act. We used it as a non-conventional method to guide the non-hierarchical dialogue between the six lines of inquiry and the consequent development of the projects. It invited participants to explore and experiment with the role of ‘rhetorical object’ in communicating issues, to look at and reflect on relations between intention and concepts, but also between research understanding and design intentions. At the outset, each project positioned itself with respect to the claims on the North Sea. Subsequently, through an iteration of conversations seeking for assonances and dissonances amid the lines and projects, a topography of displacement emerged. An unexpected aesthetics of shift into the imagination and spatio-political representation of the six lines of inquiry. The tablecloth provided a physical record of the iterations (positioning-assonance-dissonance), which moderates itself without the need to ‘tie up loose ends’. Ultimately, this guided dialogue among projects – and therefore among points of view – draws a Topography of Chance, an overture towards a new development logic of the North Sea (and exceptions).