Flatland, see Flatland

Flatland, see Flatland blends three genres— the annotated novel, the parallel novel and the reimagined classic—into a fantastical edition of the 1884 science fiction novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edward Abbott Abbott.

The edition is the culmination of a ten-day workshop held in London on collaborative book design and practice-based inquiry. In celebration of the 130th anniversary of Abbott's Flatland, a group of international participants gathered in 2014 to design a system for reimagining the story and its format for contemporary readers. The system had to be flexible enough to accommodate an eclectic mix of content, yet strict enough to achieve narrative coherence overall. Borrowing methods from art, science and science fiction, twelve designers produced a reading experience that is both idiosyncratic and systematic. Abbott’s original text is juxtaposed with graphic intrusions, marginalia and subplots guaranteed to engage readers of all dimensions ‘throughout the universe, in perpetuity.’

Editors: Yvan Martinez, Joshua Trees and Dante Carlos
Design: Johanna Asseraf, Dante Carlos, Emma Kalkhoven, Timothy Klofski, Elodie Märki, Yvan Martinez, Anya Radzevych, Line Arngaard Sørensen, Tsukasa Tanimoto, Joshua Trees, Marie-Pier Tremblay, Xue Wen