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<div id="content"><p>Special Issues are publications thrice released by first-year XPUB
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Master’s students. Each edition focuses on a specific theme or issue.
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The themes tie to external events and collaborations. Students and staff
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work together to explore these themes, rethinking what a publication can
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be. Each edition culminates in a celebratory release party.The
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structure, tools, and workflows are reset every trimester. This reset
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allows roles to rotate among participants and fosters an adapting
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learning environment. It provides a space to experiment beyond
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traditional collaborative methods. Our inaugural Special Issue was
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number 19, in collaboration with Simon Browne. Garden Leeszaal was a
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snapshot of Leeszaal Library through the metaphor of gardening. During
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the release, we invited participants to engage with the library’s
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discarded books. We pruned, gleaned, and grafted the books using pens,
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pen-plotters, scissors, and glue. Then we harvested a book of our
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collective work. Garden Leeszaal was an open dialogue. It was a tool for
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collective writing, a group-made collage, and an archive. For us, being
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a gardener meant caring for the people and books that formed the
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library. The following Special Issue was number 20, assisted by Lìdia
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Pereira and Artemis Gryllaki. Console was 20 hand-made wooden boxes. It
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was an oracle and an emotional first aid kit to help you help yourself.
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It invites you to delve into its contents to discover healing methods.
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Console offers refuge for dreams, memories, and worries. It guides you
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to face the past. You will then meet your fortune and gain a new view
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through rituals and practices. It prompts everyday questions with
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magical answers, asking: Are you ready to play? Our last special issue
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was number 21. TTY was guided by kubernētēs Martino Morandi and weekly
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guest collaborators. We started with a Model 33 Teletype machine, the
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bridge between typewriters and computer interfaces. Through guest
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contributions, we explored the intersection of historical and
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contemporary computing. The Special Issue evolved into an ever-changing
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“Exquisite Corpse Network” chasing weekly publications. Along the way,
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we created gestures, concrete vinyl poetry, phone stories, and much
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more.</p>
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