This seminar focuses on something so familiar that it often escapes notice: the (printed) page, and the gesture of turning it. Building on earlier explorations of the book’s materiality, space, and cultural functions, we now turn to the page as the smallest, yet structurally defining, unit of the codex. Alongside it, we examine the act of page-turning as both a physical movement and an essential yet academically underexplored cultural technique.

The course brings together theoretical, poetic, and design-oriented perspectives to consider the different ways that pages function: as surfaces, containers, intervals, and sites for visual and textual composition. Through readings, short lectures, and hands-on observations, we will look at how artists, designers, and theorists have approached the page.

Instead of isolating theory from practice, the seminar invites students to translate conceptual insights into the analysis of concrete examples—historical, contemporary, and their own. The goal is not to expand the ways we might read, design, and engage with ‘the page.’