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32 lines
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HTML
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<title></title>
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<meta charset="utf-8">
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../style.css">
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
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<body>
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<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
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<li><a href="">About</a></li>
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<li><a href="">Graduates</a></li>
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<li><a href="">Special Issues</a></li>
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<div id="content"><h1 id="title">Wink!</h1>
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<h3 id="grad-project-description">Grad project Description</h3>
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<p>Wink is a prototype for an interactive picture book platform. This platform aims
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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.
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<p>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". </p>
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<p>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
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remembering or might I say an ode to not being able to forget or an ode to the fear of forgetting
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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.
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<p>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 documentation from the beggining of this journey towards making accesible interactive narratives... </p>
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