In One Hundred Thousand Yearsw

<p dir="ltr"><b>Research background</b><i> </i><i>In One Hundred Thousand Yearsw</i> is a 2017 book by Adam Cruickshank published by True Belief (ISBN 978‑0‑9871705‑8‑3). It responds to the practice of the Melbourne collective Open Spatial Workshop (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester, Scott Mitchell), operating both as the first published monograph on OSW and as an artist’s book. Launched at the National Gallery of Victoria with speakers Spiros Panigirakis and Helen Hughes.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Research contribution</b> The book couples documentary and bibliographic materials with typographic and structural interventions (tête‑bêche binding; waterless offset printing, cold glue binding). It includes a complete, intentionally overprinted and illegible bootleg of OSW’s second monograph, <i>Converging in time.</i> It also includes various commissioned texts, including Spiros Panigirakis’s essay “A Name is not a Verb” (pp. 100–121), a contribution by Jon Roffe, to frame OSW’s methods across art, design and philosophy and a text from Dermot Henry, Deputy Director, Sciences, Division of Research and Collections at Museums Victoria.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Research significance</b> Issued by an independent art publisher with an established catalogue, the book provides a durable, ISBN‑tracked reference for OSW’s practice, cited on OSW’s own site, indexed by Google Books and included in many national library collections. The NGV launch situates the publication within a major public‑gallery programme, evidencing reach beyond the immediate artist network. Book is sold out from a print run of 300.</p>