This project explores the fluid strategies involved in contemporary publishing practices, focusing on texts that refuse to remain static.

"Shape-shifting" here refers both to the formal properties of texts — mutable, hybrid, in-between states — and to the dynamic methods by which they are produced, distributed, and received. Rather than adhering to traditional publishing norms, these approaches embrace transformation: texts become images, images become installations, books become performances.

The project highlights how publishing today often extends beyond print to become a form of critical practice, activism, or collective action. It examines the shifting boundaries between authorship, readership, and production, and proposes alternative models for how content can exist, circulate, and be activated in various publics.

Bringing together practitioners from different disciplines — artists, writers, designers, editors — How to Maneuver maps a terrain where publishing is not the endpoint but a generative site for experimentation, negotiation, and movement.