Shifting agency, transitioning uses, and encouraging control without ownership are explored through ambiguous design and provoking user awareness in this thesis. The research is developed in three sections, where, independently, there is no apparent overlap, but the objectives of the thesis bring them together. The thesis challenges that in some efforts, architecture is designed to disappear. The average user is not conscious of their daily surroundings and their habitual movements. While some may be aware of their actions, they can be limited due to a lack of control of the space they inhabit. The conversation continues to dissect the relationship between power and ownership. Users of public space, or temporarily leased spaces, are limited in projecting themselves onto their environment. Existing conditions of reuse, misuse, and repurposing are introduced to understand how people can and will express their needs with what they have on hand. Subsequently, the specificity of design is questioned. People use objects in a way that serves their needs, not necessarily the way the object was designed to function. So what if ambiguously designed objects were more common? What if the spice rack, the bookend, the stool, the skate obstacle, or even the carport were all the same thing, simply shifting in scale and orientation as needed? The thesis explores approaching design in a way that transfers agency from the designer to the user. Designing objects to provoke user awareness, breaking habits, and encouraging user creativity. All without the design ever needing to change, removing the necessity of a level of ownership to exist upon the object. While the design agenda remains visually abstract, the discussion that motivates it remains palpable.