'When the Dog Speaks, the Philosopher Listens'—goes the title of Nigel McGilchrist's meditation on the ideas of Pythagoras. The book reminds us that wisdom often comes from where we least expect it: a philosopher pausing to heed the voice of a dog, a metaphor for learning to listen to what is overlooked. Voice, here, is more than sound; it is an instrument of meaning, a passage into deeper truths of harmony, reality and our place in the cosmos.

We pay heed to the 26th International Garden Festival, where its participants reimagine 'borders' not as barriers but as expressions, voices of the soil, plants and the landscape that resist containment. In doing so, it allows the garden itself to 'speak,' where design amplifies nature's murmurs into forms that question who belongs, where and why. Meanwhile, Bangkok Tokyo Architecture attends to the voice of process. Their projects speak through openness: textiles that ripple as facades, markets that assemble and disassemble with ease and pavilions that give form to impermanence. In rejecting singular authorship, they allow

architecture to voice itself communally, acknowledging the agency of inhabitants, builders and context alike. In the book 'Ukrainian Modernism,' Dmytro Soloviov photographs Soviet-era structures which stand as reminders of a nation's aspirations, suppressed yet still speaking. To revisit them now is to listen to a past that refuses erasure, its tones insistent in the face of war and neglect. Finally, in 'Street, Stage, Print', feminist histories emerge via collective acts of narration—voices that were long pushed to the margins take centre stage, carried on placards, echoed in performance, printed in zines. Here, voice is resistance.

To be heard is to be seen, and to be seen is to be understood. Voice is not an accessory but an imperative that insists on presence, across generations and peoples. To listen carefully is to recognise profound insights, as Pythagoras knew, which might spring from the unexpected, and we must be receptive to it all. Even when the dog speaks.