Category: Publications

A Week On An Island With Trojan Horse – The Summer School Reader

Edited by: Ott Kagovere, Hanan Mahbouba, Jaroslav Toussaint, Arlene Tucker, Andre Vicentini, and Tommi Vasko
Texts by: Hanan Mahbouba, Marianna Maruyama and Arlene Tucker, Jaroslav Toussaint, Andre Vicentini, and Tommi Vasko

105 × 180 mm
134 pages
Edition: 500
Graphic design: Ott Kagovere and Keert Viiart
Published by Trojan Horse
ISBN 978-952-65706-0-0
2025

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Welcome to the Trojan Horse Summer School publication! It’s our pleasure to have you visit the summer school through book format. 

This book—just like the summer schools—is a collection of personal memories, reflections, and interpretations. Rather than documenting the thematics that arose, and what happened in the summer schools so far, our aim is to talk about the phenomena around and in between events.

Summer schools are always intense experiences. We live together outside for a week, sharing the usually quite sunny weather, as well as the everyday maintenance routines: preparing breakfast, doing the dishes, warming up the sauna, and taking turns organising workshops. After a couple of days, the group usually feels comfortable with each other. When the week ends, it feels sad to say goodbye. For a couple of weeks, the group chats stay active with pictures from the island and from home. And then slowly, everyday life takes over, and the intensity fades. Still every now and then, even after years of silence, a message might appear in the old group chat. Random memories from the island are likely to pop up just as heart, animal, and celestial emojis are attached to the message.

You can buy the book directly from us here. The book will be available in selected bookstores soon!

A Week On An Island With Trojan Horse – The Summer School Reader

Edited by Ott Kagovere, Kaisa Karvinen, Tommi Vasko
Texts by Ana Yin Aiwen, Teo Ala-Ruona, Michael A. Fowler, Ott Kagovere, Kaisa Karvinen, Tommi Vasko

105 × 180 mm
240 pages
Edition: 600 + 500 (second edition)
Graphic design: Ott Kagovere, Kaisa Karvinen, Tommi Vasko
Published by Lugemik
ISBN 978-9949-7381-1-3
2019

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Borrowing Positions: Role-Playing Design & Architecture is a speculative book which reflects on the design- and architecture-centred LARPs (Live Action Role-Plays) organized by the Trojan Horse collective. The book is an exploration of Live Action Role-Play as a design and architecture research tool. By inviting the reader to try on different characters, switch roles and reconsider their everyday practices, the book explores issues such as identity, performativity, gender, colonialism, care responsibilities and fear in the context of architecture, design and urban planning.

The book consists of three parts: an overview of previous LARPs and their theoretical background; reflections (essays, visual essays and interviews) on LARP-related issues; and a practical (DIY) section – a step-by-step guide on how to organize your own design LARP.

Contributors to the book vary from architecture and design practitioners to performance artists working with role-play and fiction. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in inderdisciplinary practices in design and architecture.

You can buy the book directly from us here.