Book Launch of The Garage School of Prepping Otherwise: Collective Learning in Practice

Join us for the launch of The Garage School of Prepping Otherwise: Collective Learning in Practice. This publication is the outcome of the 2025-2026 Collective Learning in Practice (CLiP #7) programme curated by The Garage School. Over six months, fourteen co-learners worked with a range of guests and collaborators to develop tools, methodologies, skills, and stories in response to the question “What Can It Mean to Survive Together?”

Against a backdrop of polycrises, militarisation, and European governments advising their citizens to ‘prep’, the school explored how we might reject individualism and relate ‘otherwise’ to the question of preparedness and survival. Drawing from multiple disciplines, the school explored both foundational and unexpected aspects of community prepping and collective survival, including health, infrastructure, archiving, collapse, food, imagination, and relationality.

The resulting material not only documents but translates the school into (pedagogical) tools, methodologies, insights, and games through which we might collectively approach the question of survival with curiosity, solidarity, and imagination.

The book launch will include an introduction from Gabi Ngcobo and the editors, readings from contributors and an activity (all ages welcome) and will be accompanied by food, drinks, and conviviality.

Book Launch Programme:

16:00 — Doors open
17:00 — Introduction and readings
18:00 — Food is served

Contributions by: Aden Mete, Anarcha, August Sturlyte, Camilla Yakupova, Hooi-Ying Ash Zhang, Janey Roanna, Kari Robertson, Leo Rij, Ni(e)k van der Meulen, Pavlos Theodorou, Santiago Pinyol, Sol Muñoz-Baroja Acaso, Sophia Wirth, Urvee Kulkarni, Doe Het Zelf Werkplaats (MB McGregor, Tomi Hilsee, Florian Henschel, Deniz Gülyurt, and Christian Lesmes Mendoza), Garden of Queerdom (Latoyah Burlace and Mandy van Pelt), Kosisochukwu Nnebe, Lilah V, Raffia Li, Dr. Rita Issa, Selçuk Balamir, Snackbar Frieda, Sophie Allerding, Varia (Luke Murphy and Sofia Boschat-Thorez), Yunfan Tian, and Yanfei Li.