Migration is rarely a singular movement from one place to another. Rather, it is an ongoing process of circulation, translation, and transformation––from wandering seeds to migrating birds to communities displaced by survival, conflict, and possibility. Alongside them travel languages, customs, technologies, and myths, reshaping identities and blurring distinctions between the native and the foreign.
PLATES 3: Conditions of Migration approaches migration as a condition of exchange through which ecological systems, political realities, cultural identities, visual languages and technological landscapes are continually reconfigured. It frames mobility and immobility as intertwined forces that extend beyond physical movement into digital infrastructures and networked forms of communication. In an era where images, data, and capital traverse borders with unprecedented speed while people remain increasingly constrained by geopolitical boundaries, migration emerges as both material and virtual, embodied and mediated.
In this issue, RELATED DEPARTMENT collaborates with Indonesian design collective and independent publisherCopyright/Reserved on creative direction and design.
Contributors include: Benoit Bodhuin, Copyright/Reserved, Darius Ou / hyperpress, gideon-jamie / Temporary Press, Grafis Nusantara, Halim Lee, Nao Lee / undefinedtomato, Nick Massarelli / Pharmacy Books, Studio Pianpian He & Max Harvey, Somnath Bhatt, Sungil Noh / Sojanggak, Waterproof Exhibitions
Creative Direction & Design: RELATED DEPARTMENT & Copyright/Reserved
Published by Page Bureau, 2026
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Published by Page Bureau, PLATES serves an editorial and curatorial response to contemporary design practice and criticism, published by Page Bureau. Each issue dives into a specific topic that is pertinent to the design reality we live in, presented and archived in a series of image and textual plates in an organic, iterative and evolving format. This issue was art directed, edited, and designed collaboratively by RELATED DEPARTMENT and Copyright/Reserved.
