pq publication cultures

PQ Publication Cultures highlights the rich variety of publications produced about scenography, performance design, and performance space, while also reflecting on how knowledge in these fields is shared and cultivated. This includes books and journals, as well as a range of other formats and media, and, importantly, the knowledge communities that sustain and transmit this understanding. An important part of this section is the PQ Best Publication Award.

Scenographers, theatre designers, and technology experts, scholars, as well as practitioners, create a global knowledge community. Together with publishing houses and institutions, they produce publications about contemporary and historical scenography and performance design. The PQ Publication Cultures program aims at exhibiting and promoting recent publications in the disciplines represented at the Prague Quadrennial, and sharing them with the global community. For PQ 2027, the PQ Publication Cultures program aims to particularly encourage connections within this global community and help the exchange of expert knowledge of scenography and performance design. This is to help the knowledge community, to give learning opportunities to students, and to promote an open culture.