During the academic year 2024-25, the KABK Design Lectorate is focusing on archiving, publishing, and integrating into teaching, aspects of the process documentation and outputs generated by the Deep Futures Research Groups between 2020 and 2024.
We are pleased to welcome back: Louis Braddock Clarke (tutor, BA Graphic Design), Carl Johan Högberg (co-head of department, BA Fine Arts), Katrin Korfmann (tutor, BA Graphic Design), Hannes Bernard (tutor, BA Graphic Design), Alexander Cromer (tutor, BA Graphic Design), Victoria Meniakina (tutor, BA Interior Architecture and Furniture Design) and Jasper Coppes (tutor, MA Artistic Research).
Each member has 0,2 fte added to their contracts to facilitate and support their research and participation in this group.
A publication containing Deep Futures research work is being collectively edited and produced, ready for distribution in 2025 by Metropolis M. For this publication the Research Group employs the self-developed method of 'messaying' which, as the name suggests, melds the qualities and approaches of making with those of essay-writing.
Alongside this, researchers are guided through the process of making public (in the broadest sense of the term) an aspect of individual research in their preferred genre and format.
To provide input, inspiration and context for this focus on research dissemination, the Group reads texts together and visits a range of publishing houses, book fair organisers, book stores, magazine and journal publishers, research exhibition curators, radio stations, and community or collective publishing initiatives. These include:
Meeting at Enter Enter, A Space For Books, Amsterdam, including:
discussion with Amsterdam-based type designer Jungmyung Lee, whose installation uses the gallery space as a publication; discussion with Roger Willems, co-founder, Roma Publications.
Symposium and exhibition opening, The Best Dutch Book Designs 2023, auditorium, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Visit to Offprint Paris 2024, a bookfair with a curated selection of independent, experimental and socially engaged publishers in the fields of art, architecture, design, humanities and visual culture. Meetings with: Yannick Boullis, Offprint founder and Catherine Geel, T&P Publishing, among others.
Meeting with Cas Bool, founder and co-director, Framer Framed, Amsterdam. Meeting with Irene de Craen, to discuss her project A Very Short and Incomplete Guide to Subversive Publishing Strategies she did with Framer Framed and her own magazine Errant Journal.
