MASTER CLASS "THINKING A BOOK " with LUC DERYCKE
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THINKING A BOOK " with Luc Derycke
8–11 December 2025
NOTE: THIS MASTER CLASS IS ORGANISED BY THE MASTER IN GRAPHIC DESIGN (2 PLACES ONLY)
Everyone who has been involved in the making of a book will know that the word book does not (solely) refer to the object (or run of identical objects) that is the final result of book making; it is rather to be considered as a process. As such it is not a thing but a mental — logical — space, and the activity it requires is as Wittgenstein would name it: the “picturing of facts” — through both language and imagery. We can consider every book project stemming from a wide rhizomatic entangled field, and a book process as a kind of killing field, a furious haptic pruning that usually results in a string of words and/or images, in an art book typically in the form of a list, in textbooks a sequence of words, grouped as numbered chapters, verses, pages. A string, especially when very long, would make an un-wieldy object. So it must be compacted, conditioned to be rolled into a scroll, or folded into a book. Materials and a machine park are available to bring this about, and pack a book in books that can be handled, looked at, read, and kept on a shelve.
All this requires thinking, often thinking in concert by a group of people. This is possible because they are thinking a book — that is simultaneously the case and not the case yet: in process. This thinking will design the book. The design can be split in strictly divided tasks, such as writing, editing, iconography, sequencing, graphic design, publishing, marketing, financing etc…, all thinking a book. As in the end only one book can be the case, all thinking will have to be expressed in one design: the book as an object. This one design however, is a combination of many designs, and the fact of combination and the fact that it is so combined is what makes up a book. When the object appears (pe: rolls of a binding machine) it fatally mirrors all thinking invested.
This masterclass is about the book before it is formed into an object. About the many states a book can be in without being an object. About book process debate. About picturing a book as a combination of facts.
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- 1 Amber Verhulst
- 2 Adèle Kaïdi
Waiting list
- 1 Aileen Kim (already signed up for F.I.E.L.D.)