We love the word that Simona Rota has chosen as the title of her book: Missbehave.

It is an invented word that (according to my understanding) evokes the 'radical behaviorism' of B. F. Skinner and the works investigating the link between environment, design and behavior of the postwar period as well as the psychology of space. The idea that behavior is reactive to the environment can lead to the assumption that maybe we could affect our environment by misbehaving.

Furthermore, the title 'missbehave' evokes the word "miss", tremendously polysemic: it means 'failure', 'to fail to reach', 'to fail to be present', 'to fail to see, hear, understend or perceive', 'to loose, overlook or fail to take advantage of', but also 'to discover or regret the loss or absence of' and 'to scape or avoid'.

The word "missbehave" itself, which is invented and apparently misspelled, is definitely an act of 'missbehaving'.

The edition of the book can not but participate in all this. As editor we're missbehaving too. We have taken an interview we have made to Simona, we have eliminated the questionings and divided the responses into independent pieces that now we are connecting attending to shared topics. The result will be a rayuela which will admit different readings. Can not wait to someone apart from us to read the result!