Why we publish?

6 NOV

WORKSHOP

9 AM - 2 PM EST

WHY WE PUBLISH? AND HOW TO DO IT?

ETHEL BARAONA POHL CRISTINA GARRIGA MATTHEW STADLER !

Hosted by Malkit Shoshan Adriana David and Rob Levine Art, Design, And The Public Domain ADPD MDes

6 NOV

WORKSHOP

9 AM - 2 PM EST

WE

'Books are in themselves already more than mere containers of information; they are also modes of connectivity and interrelation, making the library a meta-book containing illimitable intertextual elements.' —Ray Bradbury Books can be perceived as a new kind of space, where empathy, alterity, and otherness are stronger than ideologies. Catalyzing dissent and open dialogue can be one of the most effective resistance tools in times of censorship, fake news, and post-truth. Social anthropologist Athena Athanasiou explains how books have been used in public space as part of political struggles. 'People have taken to the streets to fight for critical thinking and public education, turning books into banners and shields against educational cuts and neoliberal regimes of university governance,' she writes. This activism emphasizes the strong symbolic power of the relationship between books and architectural spaces, 'where the books were not only at the barricades, they were the barricades.'

That's why the act of publishing is not merely just putting words and pages together. It implies an active process of critical thinking, open dialogue, and a creative process in order to give voice to counternarratives, creating a space for discussion and exchange of ideas and proposals – a space for knowledge exchange.

Thus, the main goal of publishing is first and foremost to create those spaces for critical debate, as described by the writer Matthew Stadler "literature isn't made by writers, but readers. Only in reading does our encounter with the written word gain its political dimension." It reminds us of the importance of thinking on the aftermath of the publishing act: What happens once the book has been printed? How do distribution processes work?

What is the lifecycle of a publication once it has been produced?

From the inception of a new publication to the moment it arrives at its reader's hands, and all in between, the workshop will discuss issues such as: What do I read? Why do I write? Why does design matter? Publishing tools and the life cycle of a publication.

Art, Design, And The Public Domain ADPD MDes

6 NOV

WORKSHOP

9 AM - 2 PM EST

PUBLISH

ETHEL BARAONA

is a critic, writer and curator. Co-founder of the independent research studio and publishing house dpr-barcelona, which operates in the fields of architecture, political theory and the social milieu. Editor of Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme from 2011-2016, her writing appears both on independent and academic media, including magazines and books, such as Open Source Architecture (Thames and Hudson, 2015), The Form of Form (Lars Muller, 2016), Together! The New Architecture of the Collective (Ruby Press, 2017), Architecture is All Over (Columbia Books of Architecture, 2017), Inéditos 2017 (La Casa Encendida, 2017), Harvard Design Magazine, ARQ, and e-flux. Her research and curatorial work include the exhibition 'Adhocracy Athens' (with César Reyes and Pelin Tan) for the Onassis Cultural Centre, 2015, which won the 2016 ADI Culture Award and 'Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales' currently on show at the Matadero Madrid (until January 2021), among others.

She was director of Foros 2017, the architecture lecture series of the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture. Since 2016, dpr-barcelona has been a member of the Future Architecture platform, the first pan-European platform for museums, festivals, and institutions dedicated to the promotion of architecture.

CRISTINA GARRIGA is a designer based in Amsterdam. Since 2014 she

works as My Bookcase, a creative studio exploring the role of the book and its reader in today's society through digital projects, workshops, events, commissions and exhibitions.

In 2018, My Bookcase launched the online directory of independent publishers' Readers & Publishers' – a response to the need among artists and writers to know how publishers work and how to reach each other. Garriga is also a founding member of Publication Studio Glasgow and has led many courses and workshops in a wide variety of art organizations and institutions. She holds a Mlitt in Fine Art from The Glasgow School of Art, a BA and Masters in Architecture from ETSAB Barcelona and an Expert Class in Type Design by the Plantin Instituut voor Typografie in Antwerp.

MATTHEW STADLER is an American author who has written six novels,

including Landscape: Memory, Allan Stein, Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha, and Minders.

Stadler has compiled four anthologies about literature, city life and public life. His essays, which have been published in magazines and museum catalogs, focus on architecture, urban planning and sprawl. "Sprawl is the disappearance of an idea", Stadler wrote in the annotated reader Where We Live Now. "So how can we go on speaking of the city and the country, yet not remain fixed in the downward spiral of loss?" Stadler's essays and larger projects explore this question by looking for better language and new descriptions.

While there is significant overlap, Stadler's work can usefully be broken down into three areas: novels; sprawl and urbanism; publishing and public space. Stadler is the co-founder of Publication Studio, where he edits the Fellow Travelers Series and the editor of the Polity of Literature project.

Art, Design, And The Public Domain ADPD MDes