XPUB publication 2025

📢 collective publication making

part of XPUB2 trimester 3

publication groups

• design: anita, senka, VictorMania https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB-publication-design-group_2025
• proofreading: Riviera
• printing & binding + budget: Wang,zuzu
• conceptual thinking & editorial: Bernadette, Thijs, Lorenzo, senka, Michel, Victor
• licensing: Maria
• meeting organisation: Manetta, unless someone wants to practice this and wants to take over :)
• 🔔the bucket police/debt collectors/legal advice: Lorenzo (All cops are buckets)
• website group: [will be formed at next meeting (session #4), depending on needs]

session #1

Monday 7 April

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB-publication-2023-2025

What would you like to read about someone else's research?

[name]: <what you would like to read>

What would you like to read about the Special Issues you were involved in?

[special issue]: 

What would you like to publish from your own research?

[name]: 

What publication format/medium would fit for this?

When producing a publication, how can the work be divided into different roles/groups?

Which role would you like to pick up?

session #2 (optional)

Tuesday 8 April

• exploring publication formats/workflows hands-on

Graph made during this session

• pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/publishing-workflows-exploration
• code: https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/publishing-workflows-exploration/workflows.dot + https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/publishing-workflows-exploration/refresh.sh
• output: https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/publishing-workflows-exploration/ (pdf, svg, png)

To generate a new graph:

$ ssh USERNAME@chopchop
$ cd /var/www/html/publishing-workflows-exploration/
$ sh refresh.sh

Notes from this session

Why are we making a collective publication?
It was great to study together, it would be great to have a summary of that, we also did not make the reader in the 1st year, maybe it is about the group
I would rather have something that speaks about the group, rather as individual texts
It might be difficult to find one format for all thesis projects?
The thesis will already be on the project website.. So here we will have the chance to do something else
If the idea is to make a summary of what we have done..
Maybe we don't have to bring everything we did, we can make a book that shows things that happened in the studio, the text can be a dialogue, it does not have to be a serious text
You as a group as your public? What would that mean? Would this mean that you want to print the reader that was never printed?
Keeping the publication just for us is not so useful? Can it be about the relations between us and relate it to a wider public?
A wider public will be a narrow public! I would be interested to understand what happens at XPUB, the convivial stuff that happens, it gives nice insights of what happens when working in groups
A focus on the relation between us..
I like the idea that it's something that is more into creative writing, while reading it it can be informative about us, but it can also be abstract, when you read it on the island it is an intimate moment to read
Do we align the themes that we're working on? Can the publication be a guide for the visitors to navigate our work on the island?
Last years publication also included the special issues, i really read it, it was really nice

Do we need the gradshow theme first?
Repeating what Joseph said: you are the theme of your gradshow
Nice examples of gradshow approaches (not really themes): the gradshow as the start not the end, the gradshow as a stage

session #3

Monday 14 April

• look at publications that we all brought
• present workflow graph (see above)
• read conversation notes all together (see above)
• check in with groups (if there has been progress already?)
• split into groups
• tasks for next meeting

session #4

Monday 12 May

• check in with groups

session #5

Monday 26 May

• check in with groups

session #6

Tuesday 10 June

• check in with groups

session #7 (if needed)

Monday 23 June

• check in with groups