In February 2019 Non Architecture launched its ninth competition, “Buying – Alternative designs for Shops”, asking creative people from all around the world to produce innovative design concepts for Shops. Additionally, visual and written content was gathered with an open call for articles and visuals on the same topic. The results of this process have been selected and rearranged by the Non architecture editorial team, and it is now presented in this book as the result of an open-source research on the universities of the future.