Grad Publication 2026

XPUB Graduation 2026

Parameters

• print run/edition: (at least) 100 copies
• copies for the XPUB archive: (at least) 5
• ...

Archive

pad links:

• (Martina & Feline) https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB2-prototyping-trim2-WEEK-5
• (kim & chrissy, absent: Tessa & Imre) https://pad.xpub.nl/p/030226prototyping
• (sliding questions) https://pad.xpub.nl/p/gradpub26-sliding-scale
• (discussion of sliding questions) https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB2-prototyping-trim2-WEEK-10
• (eleni) https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB2_Meeting_070426

other:

freds page calculator:

Key points of discussion

thesis inclusion:

1. one publication: projects
2. one publication: projects + full theses
3. one publication: projects + theses excerpts
4. one + 1/2 publications: projects, theses printed individually (assemble your own reader by choosing the ones you're interested in)
5. two publications: projects, theses

formats:

may be subject to the publication group and not entire class

• website
• print
• web to print
• how does this relate to: https://project.xpub.nl/ ?
• what is the role of the exhibition itself and material we 'need' for it? (exhibition website, flyer etc) how (if at all) do grad pub and exhibition material relate to another?

Proposed Prototypes

1. portal hopping (content)

User:Eleni/Collective Publication Prototype

Method: 'Portal Hopping' exchanging methodologies by entering each others (research) universe

implementation:

• every student has a mini booklet
• in there a protocol, performed by other students + documented
• snippets of the thesis and documentation of the project

Thesis: not fully included or in separate publication

2. the glossary we never made (content)

https://hub.xpub.nl/cerealbox/~kim/gradpub-prototype/

Method: agreeing on common terms, project (excerpts) that relate to this term are presented next to it and become its explanation (could possibly be extended into theses as well)

implementation:

• coming up with overlapping terms
• selecting snippets of our project (documentation, process ...) and assign them to the terms
• breaking up linearity / separation: projects are not presented individually but only through terms

Thesis: variable

3. Chrissy (form)

organizing content parallel, interacting with each other, breaking up with fixed sequentiality of book

sticker sheet with a sticker of each project

Interviews + Projects

commenting section could be interacting with the main text

things can run in parallel

4. Feline & Martina (form)

2 books in 1: process book + theses book

(layout and how content is organized / selected still open)

5. GitPub (form + process)

• assuming we make a html to print publication (markdown files as input format)
• keeping track of changes, files etc we compile them in a git repository
  • students could upload and update their own project files (or protocols or glossary terms etc)
• using git produces metadata such as author names, dates, commit messages
• including the metadata in the grad publication it becomes a record or our process of making

• 

  GitPub prototype

(demo)

unsorted ideas

(relevance check?) / are they off the table

• screenshots of work in progress
• year book

timetable

WHAT needs to be done WHEN

buying paper	?
having all content ready	?
??	?
print	5.6 ?
binding/cutting	12.6 + 19.6

or maybe more clear...

WEEK	WHAT	DEADLINE
(1) 20-26.4	decide on methods	thursday 23.4
(2) 27.3-3.5 (break)	maybe first protocols for writing	-
(3) 4.-10.5	?	-
(4) 11.-17.5	?	-
(5) 18.-24.5	Workshop for content production?	-
(6) 25.-31.5	finalize the content	-
(7) 1.-7.6	Testprinting and then actual printing	5.6
(8) 6.-14.6	Bind	12.6
(9) 15.21.6	cutting	19.6