Nº 07 The Journal

Notes from the desk.

Essays, dispatches and arguments from the bureau. Things we noticed in the room. Decisions that earned their keep. Mistakes worth printing twice.

12 April 2026

The room before the room.

Six weeks before doors, every event already exists — in a corner of the office, three sheets of paper deep. A note on the production we never see.

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4 March 2026

Eighteen springs on the calendar.

What changes after eighteen years of public productions, and what stubbornly does not. A quiet reckoning, half-celebration, half-correction.

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22 January 2026

Why we still print the floor plan.

On the small craft of paper in a screen-first trade, and the strange dignity of a folded A3 in a back pocket.

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Nº 08 The Subscription

A new dispatch, when there is one worth sending.

Roughly one essay a month from the Wattala desk. No tracking pixels, no list rentals, no marketing pretence. Reply to any issue and the bureau replies back.