MINIMA is a small-format ethnographic zine and multimodal experiment that treats the city as something you can read, tweak, and reprogram from below. Each issue is a minimanual: a pocket-sized guide built around one specific hacking gesture—following shadows instead of streets, tracing cables instead of borders, listening to drains instead of traffic. Inside, you’ll find a compact methodological script, a short reflection grounded in STS, experimental ethnography, and more-than-human urbanism, and a minimal visual kit of diagrams, labels, and notational devices that turn the city into a lab-book.

Designed in a single ink and meant to be printed, folded, photocopied, and passed from hand to hand, MINIMA moves like a bootleg method: low-cost, shareable, and easy to adapt. It is made for people who want to do urban research without a full academic apparatus, for teachers in need of small, concrete prompts, for artists and activists working with infrastructures and more-than-human worlds, and for curious city dwellers who enjoy walking and tinkering. Each issue can stand alone as a tiny tool, or become the starting point for workshops and “hackathons” where readers collectively test, remix, and extend the minimanuals in their own streets.