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<div id="content"><h1 id="wink">Wink!</h1> <div id="content"><h1 id="wink">Wink!</h1>
<h3 id="a-prototype-for-interactive-childrens-literature">A Prototype <h3 id="a-prototype-for-interactive-childrens-literature">
for Interactive Childrens Literature</h3> A Prototype for Interactive Childrens Literature</h3>
<p>Wink is a prototype for an interactive picture book platform. This <p>Wink is a prototype for an interactive picture book platform. This
platform aims to make reading into a mindful and thought-provoking platform aims to make reading into a mindful and thought-provoking
process by using interactive and playful elements, multiple stories process by using interactive and playful elements, multiple stories
within one narrative and sound elements. Especially today when within one narrative and sound. Today, when consumerism and low
consumerism and low attention span are rising issues, especially amongst attention span are rising issues, especially amongst young readers,
young readers, this was an important task to tackle. The thought of Wink this was an important task to tackle. The thought of Wink
emerged to find a more sustainable and creative way of reading for emerged to find a more sustainable and creative way of reading for
elementary school children.</p> elementary school children.</p>
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Wink is a prototype for an interactive picture book platform. This platform aims to make reading into a mindfull and thought provoking process by using interactive and playful elements, multiple stories within one narrative and sound elements. Especially today where consumerism and low attention span is a rising issue especially amongst young readers, this was an important task to tackle. The thought of Wink emerged to find a more sustainable and creative way of reading for elementary school children. Wink is a prototype for an interactive picture book platform. This platform aims to make reading into a mindfull and thought provoking process by using interactive and playful elements, multiple stories within one narrative and sound elements. Especially today where consumerism and low attention span is a rising issue especially amongst young readers, this was an important task to tackle. The thought of Wink emerged to find a more sustainable and creative way of reading for elementary school children.
!["a tag made by a participant in the public moment at XPUB studio. Trying to understand different approaches to certain emotions/states for a bee"](../irmak/improv.JPG) !["a tag made by a participant in the public moment at XPUB studio. Trying to understand different approaches to certain emotions/states for a bee"](../irmak/improv.JPG) {.half-image}
!["From the event at Leeszaal West, experimenting with knots and poetry. How can we see movement in text?"](../irmak/leeszaalknotpoems.jpg) !["From the event at Leeszaal West, experimenting with knots and poetry. How can we see movement in text?"](../irmak/leeszaalknotpoems.jpg) {.image-95}
!["From the event at Leeszaal West. Some of the results of knotting text"](../irmak/knotpoems2.jpg) !["From the event at Leeszaal West. Some of the results of knotting text"](../irmak/knotpoems2.jpg){image-95}
Working as a children's literature editor for years, I came to a realisation that picture books were turning into another object that kids read and consume on daily basis. At least this is what I observed in Turkey. Teachers and parents were finding it difficult to find new books constantly or were tired of rereading the same book. As a young person in the publishing sector, I believe there should be more options for children as there is for adults; such as ebooks, audiobooks etc. But moreover a "book" that can be redefined, reread or be interacted with. So I revisited an old story I wrote, translated to English and named it, "Bee Within". Working as a children's literature editor for years, I came to a realisation that picture books were turning into another object that kids read and consume on daily basis. At least this is what I observed in Turkey. Teachers and parents were finding it difficult to find new books constantly or were tired of rereading the same book. As a young person in the publishing sector, I believe there should be more options for children as there is for adults; such as ebooks, audiobooks etc. But moreover a "book" that can be redefined, reread or be interacted with. So I revisited an old story I wrote, translated to English and named it, "Bee Within".
!["Example page from the print version of the picture book."](../irmak/print3.jpg) !["Example page from the print version of the picture book."](../irmak/printp22.jpg) {image-95}
!["Example page from the print version of the picture book."](../irmak/print4.jpg) !["Example page from the print version of the picture book."](../irmak/printp2.jpg) {image-95}
Bee Within, is a story about grief and it is based on my experiences throughout the years. I erased it, rewrote it, edited it, destroyed it multiple times over the past years, simultaneously with new experiences of loss. In the end, I believe the story turned out to be an ode to remembering or might I say an ode to not being able to forget or an ode to the fear of forgetting which I now think is a great and sweet battle between death and life. I think it is an important subject to touch upon, especially for children dealing with trauma in many parts of the world. Bee Within, is a story about grief and it is based on my experiences throughout the years. I erased it, rewrote it, edited it, destroyed it multiple times over the past years, simultaneously with new experiences of loss. In the end, I believe the story turned out to be an ode to remembering or might I say an ode to not being able to forget or an ode to the fear of forgetting which I now think is a great and sweet battle between death and life. I think it is an important subject to touch upon, especially for children dealing with trauma in many parts of the world.
!["example page from the picture book"](../irmak/print1p.jpg) !["example page from the picture book"](../irmak/printp1.jpg) {half-image}
!["example page from the picture book"](../irmak/printp2.jpg) !["example page from the picture book"](../irmak/printp33.jpg) {image-95}
Over the past two years, experimenting with storytelling techniques, interactivity options and workshops with children and adults, around reading and doing various exercises on Bee Within, I improved the story to be a more playful and interactive one which can be re-read, re-played and eventually re-formed non digitally to be reachable for all children. !["example page from the picture book"](../irmak/printp3.jpg) {image-95}
!["The twine map of text based story, reachable from Bee Within by clicking to hear more about Gray the tree."](../irmak/twine.png)
!["Click game story of the Queen Bee that is reachable within Maya's main storyline."](clickgame.png) Over the past two years, experimenting with storytelling techniques, interactivity options and workshops with children and adults, around reading and doing various exercises on Bee Within, I improved the story to be a more playful and interactive one which can be re-read, re-played and eventually re-formed non digitally to be reachable for all children.
Here is some more documentation from the beggining of this journey towards making accesible interactive narratives... !["The twine map of text based story, reachable from Bee Within by clicking to hear more about Gray the tree."](../irmak/twine.png) {half-image}
!["A small sequence of onclick animation for Bee Within"](../irmak/animationseq.png) !["Click game story of the Queen Bee that is reachable within Maya's main storyline."](clickgame.png){half image}
!["Fiction Friction cards from SI20, working on storytelling of collective traumas"](../irmak/fictionfriction.CR3) !["A small sequence of onclick animation for Bee Within"](../irmak/animationseq.png) {image-95}

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### Fair leads or Fair winds is a saying sailors and knotters use to greet each other. It comes from the working end of a string that will soon be forming a knot. ### Fair leads or Fair winds is a saying sailors and knotters use to greet each other. It comes from the working end of a string that will soon be forming a knot.
I would like to clarify and introduce some terms for you in order to read this text in the desired way. For a while, we will stay in the bight of this journey as we move into forming loops, theories and ideas on how interactive picture books can be used to foster curiosity for reading and creativity for children. I am building a web platform called Wink that aims to contain a childrens story I wrote and am making into an interactive experience, in relation to my research. I would like to clarify and introduce some terms for you in order to read this text in the desired way. For a while, we will stay in the bight of this journey as we move into forming loops, theories and ideas on how interactive picture books can be used to foster curiosity for reading and creativity for children. I am building a web platform called Wink that aims to contain a childrens story I wrote and am making into an interactive experience, in relation to my research.
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