Program

What kind of worlds can we envision and what kind of stories help us keep going?

With: casita nepantla editoras

Lauria & Rachel will introduce the group to their own mail publication series and other small press mailer periodicals, exploring the boundaries of letters-as-books, making an envelope exciting to open, and why regularity matters!

With: Pseudo Press Taxonomy Press

In this roundtable, we share an open and practical look at how we have been building a mixed-funding model that combines editorial work, cultural projects and work with aligned institutions, while protecting independence and staying close to our values.

With: Gerador

Let's get together and address the impact of class in the art and design scene/industry/world.

With: Stef Mosebach

The best way to overcome procrastination is simple: sit down and write. Together. Write a short story, a poem, an experimental piece—or ignore the prompt entirely. What matters most to us is that you write.

With: DACH Magazine

How do you build a cultural magazine that gives voice to the narratives, imaginaries and creations emerging from the African worlds and their diasporas?

With: MansA Magazine

A map-zine as a social design tool : Researching People, Things and Contexts: Islanders in HONG KONG

With: Islanders Ltd

Thinking about making your magazine a membership? Get started with tips and ideas to make the process easy.

With: International Magazine Centre

Independent publishing is often someone’s first experience making, sharing, or circulating creative work. This roundtable explores how we can create more accessible pathways into publishing.

With: Velvet Jam Press

Presented by Eugenia Chin, this roundtable uses Nüshu as a starting point for a wider conversation on feminism then and now - where women's autonomy has genuinely progressed, where it has quietly regressed, and which vulnerabilities Nüshu was invented to answer still show up today, just in different forms.

With: Fable

Independent musicians are usually introduced through records, concerts, or streaming. We wondered whether zine-making could become another way of introducing them.

With: SUPERSONIC STUDIO

On framing the words from a community with care and dignity. How do we ensure we are doing the communities that we are recording justice?

With: Black Tones

Print as monument is an open conversation on how printed matters are active tools for storytelling, representation, and creating dialogue around remembrance culture.

With: Lady Liberty Press & Library Sinti Union Schleswig-Holstein

Profundo Ediciones invites you to a roundtable discussion on contemporary publications from the Latin American queer scene.

With: profundo ediciones

Most magazine makers think their aesthetic is a choice. Half of it is a supply chain. What actually kills a magazine? Money, a printer, a contributor, the day job? And what would have saved it?

With: ìrìn travels & lifestyle media

Thinking of launching a magazine?We'll help you solidify your idea and plan next steps.

With: International Magazine Centre

Olga and Julia will guide you through making an illustrated herbarium leporello, a classical accordion-fold artist book with hard covers.

With: kraterbooks Olga Epikhina

In this workshop, we'll claim ownership our digital space by rethinking personal newsletters as decentralized social networks.

With: Svenja Lettera

This workshop explores sticker-making as a form of urban activism and everyday artistic intervention.

With: PASAJ

Lara and Marcel from Soft Communication offer inspiration for contemporary and playful social media formats that reflect both your publication and your personal voice and values.

With: Soft Communication

We invite Indiecon exhibitors to collectively produce a photographic-textual diary of their pilgrimage to Hamburg through a Messenger group chat.

With: Anhar Salem Froh! e.V. Solomiya Collective

We cancelled our Adobe subscription a while back and kept drifting towards free and open-source tools.In the workshop we'll go through the tool, how it works, and why turning a website into a printed object is quite cool.

With: Food&

Would your readers like to meet you and each other in real life? Launching an event can be as easy as you'd like it to be.

With: International Magazine Centre

We’ll look at some zines from Tehran Zine’s & Risofort’s collection, show you one way how to make your own zine & give you a quick introduction of the Risograph (the printer we’ll use to produce your zine). You’ll then draft your own zine, we’ll help you produce it right away with our Riso & you take some copies from it home with you.

With: RISOFORT / SofortBooks Tehran Zine

Slow down, look closer and create a poetic response to the Gleishalle area.

With: 1A Kollektiv

Create a possessed alter ego through wearable publishing. Participants will transform Riso-printed mask templates, mini-zines, collage materials, and handmade wax colors into an original horror identity to wear and take home.

With: Possessed Planets and Bizarre Bookstore

Targeted at editorial illustrators and those looking to understand film through creative methods.

With: Beneficial Shock!

In this workshop, we will explore the traditional Japanese art of "Chigiri-e" (tearing colorful paper to create textured mosaics).

With: Mitsuki Nakamura

Fluo-Pop is a workshop about stencilcut printing, a technique very close to screenprinting – but without the screens! Participants will be working with hand-cut paper stencils, acrylic paint in fluorescent and contrasting colours and sponges.

With: Rüsselhorn

Build your own online publication with Ghost and leave with a real, live site. Everyone sets up their own and we work through it together: your first post, a newsletter, and paid memberships.

With: Magic Pages

 “Graphic Fantasies” is an exhibition showcasing the work of artist Lafat Bordieu.

With: Lafat Bordieu

With: Schaff-Verlag

Join the Office siren for a guided meditation for office workers.

With: Corporate Aesthetics