'The third leitmotif of documenta 12, which focuses on the issue of education, again starts with a question and continues: "Today, education seems to offer one viable alternative to the devil (didacticism, academia) and the deep blue sea (commodity fetishism)." So how should we understand this concept of "aesthetic education" in the highly different and specific situations and contexts in which the ninety editorial desks, spread across all the continents, work to contribute to documenta 12 magazines? Where could we find motifs and examples of what we could, to use an antiquated term, call emancipatory alternatives? The third issue of the documenta 12 Magazine is dedicated to providing responses and answers to this question.' - extracted from the editorial.

Some of the participating journals and magazines are: AIDA (Tokyo), Art China (Shanghai), ART iT (Tokyo), Art World (Shanghai), Chindwin (Yangon), CLiCK (Yogyakarta), Ctrl+P (Manila), diatxt (Kyoto), Dushu (Beijing), focas (Singapore), Frontiers (Haikou, China), journal BOL (Seoul), kakiseni.com (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia), kalam (Jakarta), Off the Edge (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia), Sabei Phyu (Yangon), Sarai (Delhi), sentAp! (Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia), talawas (Hanoi), Thai Bookazine (Thailand), Urban China (Shanghai), Yishu (Vancouver)