Temporary Bookshop XX : Bodies of Slow Technology
19 February 2026

Looiersgracht 60 is pleased to present Temporary Bookshop XX, with a special literary selection curated by Valiz on the occasion of the publication launch of Slow Technology Reader: A Tool for Shaping Divergent Futures (2025), edited by Carolyn F. Strauss. This volume marks the third edition of the Slow Reader Series, developed by Slow Research Lab and published by Valiz.

Designed by Amsterdam-based studio HallerBrun, the publication is presented alongside a thoughtful arrangement of printed matter and supporting materials that offer insight into the creative processes shaping its visual identity and distinctive navigational logic. Installed within Looiersgracht 60’s archive structures, these materials foreground the editorial and design decisions that inform the book.

Strauss, Carolyn F. (ed.). Slow Technology Reader: A Tool for Shaping Divergent Futures. Amsterdam: Valiz / Slow Research Lab, 2025.

Initiated and conceptualised by Looiersgracht 60, the Temporary Bookshop accompanies presentations, exhibitions, and events as a literary backdrop for those wishing to engage more deeply with the ideas at hand. For this edition, the Valiz Publishers brings together a selection handpicked of titles that resonate with the conceptual framework of Slow Technology Reader (Valiz, 2025), as well as broader inquiries into Slowness, embodiment, technology, and alternative modes of knowledge production. The books listed below are available for browsing, with selected titles offered for purchase.

Additional titles available:

Cools, Guy. Performing Mourning: Laments in Contemporary Art. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2021.

Lijster, Thijs (ed.). The Future of the New: Artistic Innovation in Times of Social Acceleration. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2018.

Pol, Pia, and Astrid Vorstermans (eds.). Future Book(s): On the Materiality and Temporality of the Book. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2023.

Strauss, Carolyn F. (ed.). Slow Reader: A Resource for Design Thinking and Practice. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2016.

Strauss, Carolyn F. (ed.). Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Practices in Art, Architecture, and Urbanism. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2021.

Reading Copies (not for sale):

Sposati, Camila. Stone Theatre. Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2016.

Maiboroda, Gļeb(s). The Practice of Threading One’s Way. Self-published, 2021.

Vázquez, Rolando. Vistas of Modernity: Decolonial Aesthesis and the End of the Contemporary. Amsterdam: Mondriaan Fund / Valiz, 2020.

Gerritzen, Mieke, Geert Lovink, and Minke Kampman (eds.). I Read Where I Am. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2011.