Chop Chop! The 12th issue of Room One Thousand mines cutting as a creative and material methodology using them in an expanded capacity to structure visions of the world around and ahead of us. In this issue, the threads connecting seemingly distinct conditions are woven with a sense of urgency and understanding that disparate disciplines such as architecture, gastronomy, and forestry are not isolated but are indeed intrinsically connected. Transitioning to a resilient climate, both socially and ecologically, will require new models of collaboration that disrupt siloed systems. Apart from the procedural and material tenets of architecture and the disciplines we commingle in this issue, the way we consume information has fundamentally changed with the ubiquity of digital mobility, social technologies and artificial intelligence. We encounter streams of content across multiple platforms in bits and pieces; headlines, sound bites and algorithmically curated advertisements compete for our attention. This year we challenged the format and organization of the journal to reflect this shift as we consider the ways our lives are increasingly chopped.