Shib.bo.leth

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Italia
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Shib.bo.leth

Shibboleth is a research platform for paper-based productions: books, installations, workshops. It operates as a social cooperative. Its focus is on language.

13/05/2025

NEW BOOOOOOOOK

In collaboration with CIRCI International Centre for Research on the Culture of Childhood Reggio Emilia and The Museum of Children’s Notebooks Milan, we present “How We Learn How We Learn. School Notebooks 1773-1990”, an archival study of the school notebook as a source of information on the histories of education, design and publishing!

Nostalgia, archival frenzy, doodle delight all come together in this one.

Available from June 5th. More soon on the book’s traveling presentations!

Design by Chiara Cortellini
Texts by James Bradburne, Thomas Pololi, Juri Meda
Editing by Petra Filagrana
Published by Shibboleth in an edition of 1000
EUR 35,00

05/03/2025

Shibboleth ha vinto il bando Mi15 per l’economia di prossimità del Comune di Milano!

Our little white empty spaces will soon turn into a social publishing library by March 2026.

Soooo geil!

Image 1. Our front door at night!
Image 2. Empty studio in the morning
Image 3. Petra smiling
Image 3. Marta, our first artist in residence, with her knitted work in progress. More info soon!

In tears,
Shibbo

28/01/2025

Culture Moves Europe, a Creative Europe programme of the European Union implemented by the Goethe-Institut, has granted Shibboleth an Individual
Mobility Action Grant!

In April, we’ll be developing our ongoing social publishing projects at ABC Huis in Brussels, a 1600m2-renovated-industrial laundry-turned-research centre with a focus on arts and education.

We’ll explore their archives, take part in their workshops and learn how to structure and run a cultural centre.

Yuppie!

15/11/2024

L is for Look

We’ll be contributing to the traveling exhibition on children’s photobooks curated by Photo Elysée and the Institute pour la Photographie de Lille with an essay about our ongoing work in the field.

The book will be published by
with the coordination of Elisabeth Lortic from , Anne Lacoste and Nathalie Herschdorfer.

The exhibition will be traveling from 2025 to 2028 across Europe: Lausanne, Lille, Paris, Essen, Vienna.

Can’t wait!

Image credits: Nature through Microscope and Camera, Edward Kerr, 1905

12/11/2024

Standard ISO 29991. Tesauro di ecologia bambina

We’ll be working on a new publication supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture Bursary Strategia Fotografia throughout 2025. The project promotes a social use of photography for children and explores the perception that children have of the natural environment.

The project is a partnership between the Istituto Comprensivo I from Castiglione delle Stiviere, Rorhof, The International Research Centre for the Culture of Childhood, Mutty, the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, Biblioteca Panizzi Reggio Emilia, Oplà Merano, Camera Turin and Shibboleth.

With the generous support of Creatività Contemporanea

books

23/10/2024

Publishing without a purpose is topiary

A talk on Social Publishing by Shibboleth at Central Saint Martins in London on the 28th of October 2024

Thanks to for hosting us. We’ll be in good company with and

See you there!

20/10/2024

Social Publishing Day in London

A day to celebrate the beginning of a new collaboration with the Arts Programme of the Central Saint Martins School of Fine Arts who have a long history of exploring collective making with their students and external organizations, charities and community groups.

CSM have acquired a first selection of photobooks emerging from socially-engaged practices, which will be available to students interested in a social prescribing path. The selection is curated by Micamera, Milan: authors and publishers credited below!

Shibboleth’s social publishing project fosters interventions in the practice of everyday life by providing professional development opportunities for people with autism and by designing visual literacy projects for communities with a limited access to education.

28 October 2024
Central Saint Martins School of Fine Arts
LVMH Lecture Theatre
1, Granary Square
N1C 4AA London
5.30pm - 9pm

Presentation of Mick Finch’s One Thing After Another with the author and Adrian Rifkin introduced by Alex Schady

Talk on social publishing by Shibboleth

Social Publishing Book Market in the Foyer at King’s Cross curated by Micamera

Special thanks to Mick Finch and Giulia Zorzi!

winant .palais.editions .books

15/10/2024

Recently

Mick Finch’s One-Thing-After-Another is exhibited at Ulysses Assembly, Tufts Art Galleries Boston, USA Aug 10-Nov 10 2024. Curated by

Mick Finch’s One-Thing-After-Another made a Special Mention for Best Selfpublished Photobook at the Immagini Rilegate Prize. The volume will be exhibited at the Kasa dei Libri in Milan, Italy from October 24th

Welcome to Marié Nobematsu Le-Gassic , who will be leading our education programme in the US, and to Alice Colli and Antonella di Ponziano who will be designing workshops based on our printed catalogue here in Italy!

17/09/2024

We will be talking about Shibboleth at Spazio Esthia in Rome on September 24 during Aperitivo Sociale #5.

Chiara Cortellini will present the photographic work she carried out at Casa Basaglia in Meran. A small book market will follow, enriched by Erika Mayr’s candles!

Super special thanks to Flaminia and Erika for having us! We look forward to a friendly exchange!

Image: Chiara Cortellini, zine n.4, Emic Units, 2023

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