ISSUE 13 - super trivial mega small extra common ultra boring

Today we are confronted by vast unknowns, instability, complexity, and the exponential acceleration of media cultures that destabilize long-held notions of beauty and truth. As we move through the world, we savor the pleasures and aesthetics of experience while remaining acutely aware of the artifice behind them—systems shaped by extraction, labor, and abstraction, often in tension with the values we claim to uphold. Increasingly, we find ourselves drawn to the quiet elegance of everyday life—clean linens, black coffee, sharp pencils—and to works of understated ingenuity and contextual care.

The 13th issue of Room One Thousand gathers ideas, projects, and individuals who pursue the poetics of the ordinary and the overlooked, or who attune their practices to the forces that make the small, discrete, and unassuming so resonant. We have organized a diverse set of contributions in adjacency and sequence, punctuated with moments designed to reinforce the issue’s conceptual threads, while also inviting reflection, pause, and unexpected connections that disrupt linear reading.

Super trivial, mega small, extra common, ultra boring—these are not dismissals, but provocations. Taken together, they form a flexible thematic framework, one that can be pulled apart and reconfigured as sharp tools for engaging with the material. We invite you to experiment with them, and to treat their linguistic richness as a fertile ground for interpretation and invention.

• Michael Jasinski

• TEN Studio

• Arine Aprahamian

• Maria Salaru

• Ronna Welsh

• Timothy Wong

• Shelby Kendrick

• Liam Cook

• Dylan Kreuger

• Te Palandjian

• Gene Lee

• Glory Nasr

• Stefano Corbo

• Kexuan Shang

• Elliott Surber

• Pamela Karimi

• Adriana Giorgis

• Zhifei Xu

• Carlos H. Blanco

• Priscilla Qizhen Zhang

Editors in Chief - Lawrence Peifer & Hannah Macmurray

Graphics Leads - Leah Altman & Laurenne Ross

Room One Thousand Team - Boshra Moossavi, Adam Gordon, Hannah Walrath, Jose Osorio, Rohan Lalla, Yvonne Zhang, Isabella Cosentino, Emma Goh, Charlotte Chan, Jacqueline Zhao, Caleb Adams

Published June, 2025