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Unknown Quantities
Edition 13

#Value!

From the Editors

Welcome to the thirteenth issue of Unknown Quantities: #VALUE!

Charged by a world demanding perfection, we’re choosing to explore the opposite: failure.

UQ 13 celebrates the so-called worthless, reclaiming value in processes and expressions typically seen as discordant, unconventional, or not worthy of seeing the light.

We asked ourselves:

What happens when we stop trying to get it right?

What creative energy is unleashed when we embrace mistakes, glitches, and detours?

When we honour our instincts rather than what is expected of us?

This theme is a principle that guides the making of this issue. Across both design and editorial functions, we displace value. This project grants the permission to question established standards, and to let our process be as unpredictable as our subject.

At its core, #VALUE! critiques the rigid structures that govern creativity in the workplace, the university, the gallery, and beyond. It’s an anthology of shared experiments and stands as a testament to what happens when you dare to break, to stumble, and to gleefully fail.

Editorial