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SUMMARY:PANEL TALK: PUBLISHING AS COLLECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE with Minor Compositions
DESCRIPTION:What if a book wasn’t an endpoint but an infrastructure?\n\n\n\nPlease join us for the launch of Publishing as Collective Infrastructure. This title is less a ‘book’ than it is a radical rethinking of the book-form itself; formulated as a collectively authored\, polyphonic work; an intervention into the realms of academic and open-access publishing. The project is grounded in experimentation and the bridging of theory and practice. It works to challenge proprietary software and big-tech dependency\, orientating itself towards a future mode of publishing that must address the direct crises of precarity and education.  \n\n\n\nPublishing as Collective Infrastructure challenges the idea of the book as a fixed object and reimagines publishing as a collective\, political\, and infrastructural practice. Emerging from the ServPub project\, this book brings together artists\, academics\, technologists\, feminist server collectives\, and experimental publishers to expose how contemporary publishing is shaped by extractive platforms\, proprietary software\, unpaid labour\, and opaque infrastructures. Against this backdrop\, the authors develop and document alternative models grounded in free and open-source tools\, collective authorship\, feminist care practices\, and self-hosted\, small-scale infrastructures. \n\n\n\nBlending theory\, documentation\, and reflection\, the book explores publishing as a full-stack practice:  spanning writing\, design\, software\, servers\, logistics\, and governance. It addresses topics including ambulant servers\, wiki-to-print workflows\, versioning and forking books\, radical referencing\, and autonomous publishing\, while situating these practices within broader debates on infrastructure\, open access\, and knowledge politics. Rather than offering a blueprint\, Publishing as Collective Infrastructure functions as a living experiment and pedagogical resource. It invites readers to think with – and work through – the infrastructures that make publishing possible\, and to imagine how knowledge might be produced and shared otherwise. \n\n\n\nBio: Publishing as Collective Infrastructure does not have a single\, unified author. Instead\, it is a polyphonic work shaped by the shared labor\, ideas\, and practices of multiple collectives and projects working across experimental publishing\, feminist infrastructure\, open-source design\, and autonomous knowledge production. The book emerges from collaborations involving In-grid\, Minor Compositions\, noNames\, Shape\, and Systerserver\, with contributions from Constant\, Creative Crowds\, Hackers & Designers\, OBF Experimental Publishing Group\, TITiPI\, & Varia. Together\, these groups contribute situated perspectives\, technical practices\, and collective forms of authorship that reflect the book’s commitment to publishing as a social\, infrastructural\, and political process. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading…
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CATEGORIES:In Store
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Revolution Under Construction: The SAAL Housing Process\, 1974–76
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of this illuminating study of one of the most remarkable housing initiatives in European history. With the author\, Sara Almodovar Pereira\, in conversation with architect and theorist Dr Dubravka Sekulić.\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK: \n\n\n\nThe fall of the dictatorship in 1974 saw the start of Portugal’s revolutionary period and with it one of the most remarkable housing initiatives in European history. As an immediate response to the vast portion of the population living in slums and shanties\, the SAAL (Mobile Local Support Service) was established to equip impoverished people to build the new homes they needed. Initiated by architect Nuno Portas\, the SAAL connected citizens with planners\, architects\, engineers\, and builders to collaborate on the design and construction of new developments\, to be built on requisitioned sites as close as possible to the inhabitants’ former homes. The resulting estates were intimately informed by their inhabitants’ needs and hopes. Through their uniquely participatory process they developed a celebrated new architectural language. \n\n\n\nIn this book\, Sara Almodovar Pereira collects the experiences and reflections of those who participated in the SAAL\, reconstructing this extraordinary chapter in architectural and social history through the voices of those who were there\, at the protests and meetings\, on the building sites and barracks. The experiences recounted are revelatory\, demonstrating truly participatory architecture and offering new understandings of housing as right and provision\, far from prevailing paradigms and their perpetuated logic of ‘crisis’. This immersive oral history traces the unfolding of a historical moment at ground level and reminds us of ways of working and building that could transform the future. \n\n\n\nSara and Dubravka will talk for around 45 minutes followed by a Q&A.  \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading…
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CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event
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SUMMARY:DISCUSSION & FILM SCREENING: BLACK BRITONS\, RACE\, AND POLICING
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of the seminal documentary work\,  BLACKS BRITANNICA\, and to also celebrate the publications of Bisi Akintoye’s incredible new history of the Black British experience and policing. Featuring Bisi Akintoye and chaired by Dr Remy-Paulin Twahirwa.\n\n\n\nBlacks Britannica (1978) is a landmark documentary examining the experiences of Black communities in Britain during the 1970s. Through interviews and contemporary footage\, the film explores racism\, policing\, immigration\, employment and resistance\, capturing a period of intense political struggle over race and belonging. Its account of Black British life provides a powerful historical backdrop to continuing debates about racialised policing\, citizenship and the relationship between Black communities and the state. \n\n\n\nBisi Akintoye’s new book\, Black Britons\, Race\, and Policing: The Long Shadow\, explores the historical and contemporary policing of Black communities in Britain\, revealing how much has — and hasn’t — changed. Drawing on 58 interviews with young people\, elders\, and community workers in a heavily policed North London neighbourhood\, it offers a powerful\, intergenerational account of racialised policing and its everyday consequences. Through an intersectional lens\, it examines how race\, gender\, class\, and place overlap to shape Black Britons’ encounters with police and their sense of belonging. Through the voices of those most affected\, the book traces how these experiences have produced enduring cultural narratives of mistrust\, resistance\, and exclusion. Exposing how policing continues to racialise and criminalise certain communities designated suspect status\, it connects these practices to the legacies of empire and the politics of othering. It concludes by considering what these histories mean for the present and future of police-community relations and offers practical recommendations for building trust\, accountability\, and justice. \n\n\n\nTo celebrate the launch of this vital new book we welcome Bisi will be in conversation with Dr Remy-Paulin Twahirwa; the two will draw out key themes from the documentary and Bisi’s vital book. Expect illuminating discussion and some drinks and snacks. We look forward to seeing you there. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose ‘book + entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nPlease note copies of the book will be for sale on the night.  \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 6:45pm\, Event Starts 7:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading…
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CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Discussion group,In Store,Literary Event
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