PUBLISHING
FUTURES

Publishing Futures is an open platform for research, learning and experimentation with practices of publishing and making public. It welcomes the student community, particularly students of the MA in Design — Publishing Futures at DELLI — Design Lusófona Lisboa, Universidade Lusófona, and anyone who wishes to take part in this collective exploration.

Making public means giving visibility, creating encounters and putting ideas, experiences and knowledge into circulation. It can happen through a text, an image, a meal, an exhibition, a conversation or an action in a place. We understand these practices as relational and performative, situated within cultural, political and material ecologies.

Geographies, food, climates, culture, communities, archives and futures are the subjects of this research. Through design, provocation, and systemic and multispecies thinking, we seek forms of communication attentive to the relationships we establish with places, materials and others. We value local knowledge, hybrid formats and ways of making that allow us to experiment with other ways of living and sharing.

This platform brings together texts and makes room for projects, images, annotations and conversations. Each contribution can extend an idea, question it or bring it into relation with another. Students, educators, researchers and participants from other contexts are invited to build this space together, bringing their practices, questions and perspectives.

Publishing Futures is an unfinished publication. A space for collective learning and creation that embraces its provisional and self-critical nature, where both the content and the ways of making it public remain open to discussion, experimentation and transformation.