Shared Visions

Join us on Friday 21 November, 17:00-18:30, for an online working session to develop a publishing strategy for the Shared Visions Cooperative. How can we publish collectively? What are cooperative editorial processes? Can we share existing individual assets?

‘One publishes to find comrades’, the Surrealist writer André Breton famously declared. He meant that publishing is less about spreading a final idea and more about a social and collaborative practice to create meaning within communities. Through publishing, the Shared Visions Cooperative aims to share discourses, ideas, and differences to build a vision for a sustainable cooperative.

Moreover, let’s imagine the economic opportunities of cooperative publishing. A member in Montenegro who has made a political comic can find a proofreader in Belgium, a printer in Portugal, and bookshops throughout Europe, all within the Shared Visions network. The profits of selling the comic can flow back into the cooperative, making this activity economically viable. In short, we can do things together that we could never do alone.

To develop both the meaningful conversation and economic prospects of cooperative publishing, we are organising an online session hosted by Nicolas Galeazzi (SOTA) and Sepp Eckenhaussen (Avans). We will meet to brainstorm and map what is there to share – the assets we already have amongst the workshop participants. These include infrastructures (printing presses, publishing series), skills (editorial, illustration, design), content, and experiences. Based on this overview of assets, we will start building a cooperative publishing strategy.

Date: Friday, 21 November
Time: 17:00-18:30 Belgrade/Brussels time
Link: https://zoom.us/j/92483948618?pwd=AYho3WFO6L8sPAv6diDd6IH3NafZ4g.1
[Meeting ID: 924 8394 8618, Passcode: 067338]

No preparation is needed, everyone is welcome.