27/11/2025
Workshop for the Master’s Students in Publishing Futures_DE L LI
This exercise began with a simple premise: each student creates a provocation — an affirmative condition capable of transforming a system.
From there, we entered a collective experiment inspired by João Fiadeiro’s Real-Time Composition:
no explanations,
no corrections,
no repeated moves.
The process unfolded across two sessions.
First, students acted individually, placing gestures on the board as autonomous decisions that reshaped the field.
In the second session, those individual provocations returned as shared material.
The group became a collaborative system, reading the evolving landscape and contributing one gesture at a time, allowing form to emerge from attention, relation, and transition.
What we witness here is design as a living ecology, not a fixed outcome.
Each gesture shifts the system.
Each decision carries the memory of all previous ones.
The structure becomes readable only through the continuity of actions.
This is transition-based design:
a practice that values emergence over control, presence over intention, and collective choreography over individual authorship.
