Footnotes from the Centre for Research Architecture brings together short contributions by students and staff of the MA 2017-18 programme. Published on the occasion of the Centre for Research Architecture?s final exhibition at Goldsmiths College, University of London on the 28th September 2018. This publication provides a conceptual framework to compile a series of visual and textual footnotes by each of CRA?s students. It enables each student to make visible a crucial fragment of the research process that fits neither within the dissertation?s narrative or within the exhibition?s format. Placed either at the end of the page, a chapter or a book, footnotes affect the body of a text from without. From the margins, footnotes operate as powerful tools to unwrap and expand a key concept/context, to give space to shadowy information, to expose a methodological approach, to highlight a discovered source, to acknowledge an external contribution, to set the limits of a text, to redirect the reader. By inverting the figure-ground relation, we aim to give space to material that haunts our research projects from th