Alan Smart

New Babylon Times: Publishing in the Contested City maps out a chronology of counter-culture manifestos – including excerpts from dada, the New Situationists, and PROVO. This gathering of material retraces the evolution, dissonances, and influences between these movements, each articulating – through happening, spatial interventions, and reimaginings of the urban sphere – a radical desire for a new social paradigm.

Alan Smart joined PrintRoom in April 2023 as publisher-in-residence, and show more developed the project New Babylon Times: Publishing in the Contested City, exploring publishing-as-practice through the lens of historicity.
Alan is an architect, researcher, publisher, and co-founder of the research and design platform OtherForms. In his practice, he examines the intersection of political and social movements with architecture, design and urbanism. He brings with him a selection from his collection of activist publications and documents, which will formed part of an evolving exhibition in PrintRoom. show less