Out of project Campus Dérives (see here) rose think.material Press, a new modest-print arm of the Centre for Material Thinking. Campus Dérives, a psychogeographical series of seven investigative-walking sessions targeting Aberystwyth University’s campus, spawned an accidental wee pamphlet. We wanted to arrange its publication ourselves, & also welcome the opportunity for further publications of a similar nature.
think.material Press is run by aim king and Amy Grandvoinet as a low-effort (speaking permaculturally) development, a infrastructural means through which printable matter might be ad-lib-ly assembled here and there to occasionally produce delicious treat(ise)s. Our mission is to provide a reasonably-organised foundation from which a few projects might find communicative outlet via the medium of paper-and-ink in a very digitised era. We use external printing services, local and non-local, and are keen to expand our collaboration profile.
We have exhibited our papier productions so far at Spineless Wonders x Aberystwyth School of Art’s collaborative show in 2025. We will also be part of Capel Bethel’s ‘Agor Llyfr: Open a Book’ expanded artists’ books exhibition in 2026 celebrating Aberystwyth’s status as a UNESCO City of Literature.
Plz contact ack5@aber.ac.uk & akg4@aber.ac.uk if you’ve interest to work with us, jumping into and expanding the Centre for Material Thinking’s print-culture network.
Current Publications
Campus Dérives (2024)
A c. 80-page full-colour recycled paper pamphlet recording findings discovered during the Campus Dérives that took place at the University of Aberystwyth over the academic year 2024-5. Feat. contributions from student / staff / general publicus alike: Molly Cawthorn, Richard Dannenberg, Kamala Devi, Anthony Eades, Amy Grandvoinet, Ruth Hogg, Sarah Howells, Alex Hubbard, Hedy Hume, Sarah Hussein, aim king, Laura Phillips, Caitlin Sheppard, Poppy Wilson-Furness, & Heledd Wyn. Read the write-up of our launch party at in L3 Llandinam Building (i.e. Tower) here.
SBAEN (2025)
A smattering of musings on themes of ‘Sbaen’, Welsh for the Mediterranean country named ‘Spain’ in English, and ‘spine’, which its somewhat pronounced like, as in the bone-conglomeration of backs, of books, of human dispositions, et cetera. ‘Sbaen’ & ‘Spain’ are reminiscent of what’s referred to as ‘false friends’ – they sound alike but have no relation. Yet, in what ways do these linguistic signs overlap? We consider. Featuring work by aim king, Alex Hubbard, Amy Grandvoinet, Bella Milne, Caitlin Shepherd, Charlotte Bulling, Heledd Wyn, Joshua Jones, Kristiana Dzenite, Lily Fileman, Louie Taylor, M K Lord, Poppy Wilson, Purplish Laila, Rakyah Assam, Ruth Hogg, Thom Hamer. Read about the launch event at Bank Vault Aberystwyth here!
REALIA (2026)
‘Realia’ is an educational or psychotherapeutic tool whereby objects are used for exploration. Realia, think.material Press’s third publication – co-edited by aim King and Amy Grandvoinet and guest-editor Poppy Wilson – brings together an offering of everyday items described in anywhere between 1 to 1,000 words of prose on the personal, political, et cetera. With contributions from Emma Butler-Way, Kristiāna Dzenīte, Fiona Glen, Lauren Middleton, Christopher Thomas, Eluned Gramich, Tony Thomas, Beau Maibaum, Louie M.T., Ruth Hogg, Hedy Hume, Janoš Vranek, Lily Steve, Kim Knowles, Rakyah Assam, Seren Marie Nixon, Alice Leroy, Daniel Rhys Jones, Tom White, Alice Shulz, Anona Williams, and Lily Fileman, in that sequential order. Havva read of the launch parti, Bank Vault Aberystwyth again, yma!
Venezia Amoré [prototype] (2026)
One-off experiment version of Amy K Grandvoinet’s novella on romance tourism and socio-ecological crisis in the culturally-loaded City of Venice (emphasis on psychogeographical legacies). Concerned with the means of (our) production on a spectrum of tangibility, mud-hue vignettes separated by <3 stickers inkjet-printed on paper are handstitch-bound together in pink suminagashi marbling + analogue photo reproduction endpapers then grey pearlescent front/backcover card plus laminated cigarette-paper platforms for Alberoni shell & Murano glass scraps. Gratitude to London Centre for Book Arts, UCL Spineless Wonders, Aberystwyth Printmakers. On show at Capel Bethel June to July 2026 – find out more ici!
Publications-in-Progress:
Odes to Matter (*FORTH-COMING* 2026)
T.B.A.
Seagrass Psychorambles (*FORTH-COMING* 2027)
A collaborative cartological work by Lily Tiger Tonkin Wells, Amy Grandvoinet, and North Wales Ramblers documenting an afternoon of sacred pilgrimage to sea-grass, or more accurately ‘morwellt’ in Welsh, at Porth Dinllaen’s beaches. Part of a collection of meditations produced via Natur am Byth’s artists programme working to protect local biodiversity across all of Cymru – see here to find out more for now.
