Critical and Creative Inquiries
We produce well-researched publications, texts, talks, artwork, workshops, and walking tours related to social, political, and environmental themes. We are experienced in teaching and particularly enjoy bringing complex topics to life for broad audiences through visualisations and engaging narratives.
On Plural Studio
1001 ACCURATE MEMORIES by ALEX HEAD (2025)
SPONGE ZINE #1 Assessing the Threats - Tech in Activism, Plural Studio (2025) Third Edition
WORK TAP (2023-2025) Fifth Edition
SEEING FIRE | SEEING MEADOWS by ANNA KOSTREVA (2023)
The goal of centering books and publishing within our work reflects a shared interest in public space or what one might call the game of publicness. We often ask whether public space is a staged arena in which the appearance of striving for the common good is used to create specific social and economic outcomes. Or whether it operates as the very foundation of the democratic process?
Acknowledging that these definitions are not mutually exclusive serves as the opening premise, directed at the conceptual heart of the publishing wing of the studio.
To us, culture represents both specific individual forms of self-expression and markets that aggregate taste, attitudes and opinion. This is a two-way exchange that shapes readers and authors at every scale of cultural reproduction. As publishers we mediate between that which occurs in private contemplation and that which can be articulated publicly.
The more market-driven society becomes the more aestheticized are its politics: for example, by demonizing minorities rather than taxing the super-rich to prevent crime. The swing towards private (market) interests thus erodes public possibilities, and the game of publicness falls apart.
The studio takes the position that culture predicates politics and that, as such, it is crucial to archive. Our intention is that readers of the works we publish may continue to explore new positions in relationship to publicness.
As founders, we have attempted to begin this process with four works: an architectural Sci-Fi novel, Seeing Fire | Seeing Meadows by Anna Kostreva (2023); a collection public statements around censorship, WORK TAP (2023-2025); the twice peer-reviewed guide to digital security for activists, SPONGE ZINE #1 (2025); and a new work of creative non-fiction: 1001 Accurate Memories by Alex Head (2025).
We look forward to developing new book projects with other practitioners that bridge human creativity and a drive towards plurality, prosperity and survival.
Collaborations
RICOCHET - CULTURAL EPIGENETICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHANGE by ALEX HEAD - LJÅ FORLAG (2021)
HERE COMES TROUBLE, AN INQUIRY INTO ART, MAGIC AND MADNESS by ALEX HEAD - ZK/U PRESS (2016) Third Edition
THREE PATHWAYS TO GET ANYWHERE by ANNA KOSTREVA - ROUGH BEAST (2015)
BERLIN: A MORPHOLOGY OF WALLS by ANNA KOSTREVA - ARCHIVE BOOKS (2014)
Impressum
Plural Studio
Anna Kostreva, Alex Head
GbR 23/394/00834
Berlin, Deutschland
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