By Grymsdyke Farm

Grymsdyke Farm has now launched its second publication, Reading Design: Falling. The book documents a four-week workshop led by leading artists and designers at Grymsdyke Farm in summer 2025.

Reading Design takes place each year at Grymsdyke Farm. Over four weeks, invited practitioners work alongside students in an intensive programme of workshops, discussions and shared living.

The emphasis is on learning through doing: experimenting with processes, testing materials and working with what already exists. Inspired by the action poems of Fluxus artist Mieko Shiomi (b. 1938), Reading Design asked: What do we notice when we fall? Each workshop responded to this theme in its own way, opening space for uncertainty, chance and collaboration.

In full colour, the book documents work produced at four workshops led by leading practitioners: Maurizio Altieri, Marco Campardo, FOS, Guan Lee, Luca Lo Pinto, Soft Baroque and Lorenzo Vitturi.

Alongside, essays explore themes related to ‘falling’ by Laura Houseley, Leonard Koren, Yeoryia Manolopoulou and Rujana Rebernjak. A fold-out facsimile of Mieko Shiomi’s Spatial poem No.3 Falling Event is included with each book, by kind permission of the artist.