Stepping outside the expected path, making work on the margins, organising together: this project grew out of a need to give form to what collectives make possible in the blind spots of the art school. This edition was shaped through encounters, conversations, and the shared histories of groups from different schools. It seeks to capture the powerful impulse that leads students to move beyond the given framework, to inhabit the informal, marginal, or quietly tolerated spaces of the institution, and to turn them into places of energy, invention, and collective creation.

Rather than smoothing over reality, the book offers a sensitive and critical anatomy of working together. It stays close to the contradictions of our experiences: the beauty of spontaneous solidarity, but also the fatigue, the silences, and the invisible hierarchies that can emerge within collective life. Between a celebration of what collectives allow and a clear-eyed reading of the tensions that run through them, this edition holds together both the strength of the movement and the fragility of its bonds.