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Futurology of Cooperation
A book of spells and recipes, 2023

Bienvenue in our Grimoire.

Een Grimoire is a book of magic spells and recipes. Les sorts qui se trouvent in deze Grimoire take the form of practical tools, technieken, jeux et structures à utiliser par toute personne interested in l’expérimentation met tijdreizen and time-travel in collectieve processen.

Here kan u l'introduction of our Grimoire lezen en français, in English of in het Nederlands.

Ce Grimoire is a trilingual boek (436 pages, format 18 x 11 cm, ISBN 9789464668438), but aussi een website trilingue.

Futurology of Cooperation was piloted by

  Anna Czapski and
  Diederik Peeters

The research-team

  Rasa Alksnyte,
  Hans Bryssinck,
  Anna Czapski,
  Pierre Huyghebaert (OSP),
  Heike Langsdorf,
  Sarah Magnan (OSP),
  Mathilde Maillard,
  Diederik Peeters,
  Anna Rispoli,
  Marine Thévenet,
  Adva Zakaï.

Design

  Open Source Publishing (OSP, Pierre
Huyghebaert and Sarah Magnan)

Libre typography

  Compagnon font by Juliette Duhé and Léa Pradine distributed by Velvetyne.fr, 
  in addtion of retro-futur QTOptimum, QTBengal 434 Futurology of Cooperation 
  and QTFrizQuad from the 1992 Qualitype font package, rejuvenated in 2009.

Software tools

  Ethertoff
  Nextcloud
  Inkscape
  Gimp + Imagemagick
  Chiplotle (to draw symbols on osties)

Hosting of the website and cloud

  Domaine public, Brussels, with love

Printer

  CPI FIRMIN-DIDOT

With the precious help and motivation of, and thanks to :

  Bek Berger,
  Martin Boutry,
  Gijs De Heij,
  Delphine Hesters,
  Joris Janssens,
  Maja Kuzmanovic,
  Rocio Leza,
  Ernst Maréchal,
  Siti Nurjanah,
  Laura Oriol,
  Miriam Rhode,
  Flavio Rodrigues,
  Sarah Sampelayo,
  Erika Sprey,
  Herlinde Van Langenhove,
  Katrien Vuylsteke Vanfleteren,
  Ingrid Vranken,
  Emmanuelle Wattier,
  Moni Wespi

And also Yvonne, Emma & Lisa Harder (the Geneva branch of Futurology of Cooperation).

Special thanks to all the students at KASK, P.A.R.T.S. and ESA Saint-Luc Bruxelles.

SPIN and L'Amicale.

Prima and Radical House, House of practices. And also Viernulvier Gent and Buda kunstencentrum Kortrijk, Centre Culturel des Grottes in Geneva, Homo Novus Festival in Riga.


Our Belgian branch of experimental futurology provides tailor-made interventions and consultancy. Training courses, trekking, fortune telling: grimoire@futurology.be

Past

26.01.2023

Book Presentation, Bookshop Peinture Fraîche, Brussels

01.04.2022

Proto-version of the online Grimoire is launched during an evening with presentations, lectures and a film, Kunstencentrum BUDA, Kortrijk