You cannot select more than 25 topics
Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
60 lines
3.4 KiB
Markdown
60 lines
3.4 KiB
Markdown
---
|
|
title: Wink!
|
|
author: Irmak
|
|
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
# Wink!
|
|
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
### A Prototype for Interactive Children's Literature
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
{.half-image}
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
{.image-95}
|
|
|
|
Teachers and parents were finding it difficult to find new books constantly or were tired of rereading the same book.
|
|
|
|
{.image-95}
|
|
|
|
{.image-95}
|
|
|
|
{.image-95 .white-caption}
|
|
|
|
{.image-95 .white-caption}
|
|
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
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 called it, "Bee Within".
|
|
|
|
Bee Within, is a story about grief/memory 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.
|
|
|
|
{.half-image}
|
|
|
|
{.image-95}
|
|
|
|
{.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.
|
|
|
|
{.half-image}
|
|
|
|
{.image-95}
|
|
|
|
{.image-95}
|
|
|
|
{.image-95}
|
|
|
|
{.half-image}
|
|
|