Grad Publication 2026
Guidelines for words
Guidelines to come up/ add words to the XPUB glossary
This is not a strict protocol, because personal process may vary to add to the list.
Please don't take more than 20min to add your words in, it's supposed to be a fun process!
- Add between 1 and 5 words to the list
- Try to only add 1 word that is very conceptual/general (i.e: care, labour, feminism etc)
- Add words that are very specific to your project!
- Don't add synonyms of a word already present in the list (and don't double the words either)
- Words don't belong to anyone. Just because you propose it doesn mean it's 'your' word... but anyone should / can add to the content under this word in the publication.
- Words can be made of 2 words (i.e: reproductive labour). If an umberella term is already in there (here "Labour"), no need to add your word, you can contribute withe the more specific term in the content later
Tips:
- can you think of a concept?
- think of a term that already relates to 5 different projects
- a term that is very specific to you? one that comes up repeteadly in your research?
- a term or concept that you learned during your research?
- a word you're intrigued about because someone in the class said it but it's not in the list?
- a word that defines the class as a group?
Note: We WILL edit, especially in the content later on, mainly for content clarity, spelling mistakes, or repetitions.
WORD LIST
- community
- publishing tools (or 'tools for publication making')
- metadata
- articulation work
- craft
- materiality
- invitation
- diy radio making
- license
- dead media
- collaboration
Timetable
WHAT needs to be done WHEN
| WEEK | WHAT | DEADLINE |
|---|---|---|
| (1) 20-26.4 | decide on methods make detailed plan for the upcoming weeks |
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 | binding | 12.6 |
| (9) 15.21.6 | cutting | 19.6 |
TO-DO
Physical Publication
- deciding on paper
- buying paper
- anything we need to do regarding printing? (maybe ask michael or helen if they have unlimited printing or someone tops up money on their card so we can print more than 10 pages :))
Website
- ??
Archive
pad links:
- GRAD PAD general https://pad.xpub.nl/p/GradPub2026
- (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:
Parameters
print run/edition: (at least) 100 copies
- copies for the XPUB archive: (at least) 5
- ...
Key points of discussion
thesis inclusion:
- one publication: projects
- one publication: projects + full theses
- one publication: projects + theses excerpts
- one + 1/2 publications: projects, theses printed individually (assemble your own reader by choosing the ones you're interested in)
- two publications: projects, theses
formats:
may be subject to the publication group and not entire class
- website
- 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)
6. Charlie (?)
unsorted ideas
(relevance check?) / are they off the table
- screenshots of work in progress
- year book