Rotterdam to Eindhoven, Eindhoven to Bologna, Bologna to Faenza, Faenza to Tredozio...
- Our journey from the Netherlands to Italy was made through winding roads.
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- It was orange evening that we arrived at Habitat.
Rotterdam to Eindhoven, Eindhoven to Bologna, Bologna to Faenza, Faenza to Tredozio...
- Our journey from the Netherlands to Italy was made through winding roads.
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- It was orange evening that we arrived at Habitat.
- If we think of the word publishing, we're prone to be stuck - with an idea of working on some documents in Adobe applications, - then print, then glue. + Our friend Jacopo (a.k.a Pongie) and a kitten Bilbi, a mascot of Habitat, welcomed us with open arms.
BUT it could be more than this..
-The forms of actions should be various...
-All-together!
+Ah yea, a group of wasps as well!
+
Our first workshop chatty, messy, sticky, tsss... was planned to happen two days later.
+ What we wanted to do with artists in Habitat is creating a temporary platform to make collective publications into two different formats;
+ 1) a format of a book through relay binding
+ 2) a format of a dish: Buchimgae 
Buchimage is Korean pancake., mixing (= gluing = binding) various ingredients.
- Procedure (step-by-step):
- a: Relay book binding (chae nami also chose tools)
- a-1) introduce what we're going to do; part one relay book binding
- (10-15m)
+ a-1) introduce what we're going to do; part one relay book binding (10-15m):
+
+Start from our title and unpack the (background) story of the workshop idea. Let participants know that the workshop will recorded as soundscape and ask if they're okay with it.
- Start from our title and unpack the (background) story of the workshop
- idea. Let participants know that the workshop will recorded as
- soundscape and ask if they're okay with it.
+
+a-2) Play around with tools: (15m)
+Before get into the binding session, participants have 15 minutes to play around with the prepared tools. They can touch and use a few of them and will have the sense of materiality.
+Participants sit around a table and each of them has a specific role. (e.g. Person A cuts papers, person B punches holes, person C tapes, person D folds, etc). Through the relayed tasks, they will make collaborative publication(s). During the session, they will share their thoughts and discuss the collective values in the action of binding.
+
+a-3) Select a tool for each person and explain why they chose it. (10m)
+Give them a few minutes to select a tool/a role they want, and have a short round to listen to the reasons.
+Have a brief overview for the outcome and share thoughts.
+a-4) A brief discussion for the arrangement of seat positions (10-20m)
+: Let them think about orders/mechanisms they want to have
+a-5)The relay binding moment! (45m) While waiting for one's turn, there will be continuous daily conversation.
+a-6) Wrap up (10m):
+A round of feeling and touching the outcome. Then have a 3 minutes of cool-down moment to think how they want to name/define the outcome. Then let them write it down on sticky notes/paper (prepared by the hosts) and put them on the outcome (pub).
+
+[BREAK] The 1st session done! 30mins tea-time / prepare the next workshop; Buchimgae making
- Hmmm indeed...we tend to 'bind' in the end of the book making.
+ It's the D-day! The 28th Aug 2022, 5PM
Participants were very respectfully listening to our introduction.
+ 
+ - Hmmm indeed...we tend to 'bind' in the end of the book making. +
Tssssss...... Taping sounds!
+ People were busy with making their own page!
- Hmmm indeed...we tend to 'bind' in the end of the book making.
One
- publication is born when every single different page gets glued
- together. Oh wait, glue?
+ Yea...We remeber... The rustle of papers being cut, torn out, sticked....
+
+ 
- Can Buchimgae Buchimage is Korean pancake. be a
- publication, involving with the glue? When making the pancake, all
- the different ingredients gets mingled and binded through the
- batter!
+ When it seemed that people almost finishsed making their pages, we wanted to start the relay binding.
+ Starting from a page, it was becoming a book. Getting thicker and thicker...
- Also in Korea, we share Buchimgae together! We don't usually have - one pancake per person. We tear the hot pancake together,using - chopsticks..! That's the unique beauty of Buchimgae. +
Tada!!! Completed!
+ We asked for the participants to label how they want to name/call it.
- a-2) Play around with tools (15m)
- Before get into the binding session, participants have 15 minutes to
- play around with the prepared tools. They can touch and use a few of
- them and will have the sense of materiality. Participants sit around a
- table and each of them has a specific role. (e.g. Person A cuts
- papers, person B punches holes, person C tapes, person D folds, etc).
- Through the relayed tasks, they will make collaborative
- publication(s). During the session, they will share their t
+
+ b-1) Ask ppl to explain what ingredients they brought (if they haven't brought any, then grab whatever in the fridge and ask them why they chose it)
+ b-2) Introduce what we're going to do; what is Buchimgae,
In Korea, we count the number of Buchimgae as if we count paper. We call it like Buchimgae 1 jang (=page), 2 jang...
+
+ b-3) Split into a few groups. Each group makes their own Buchimgae, mixing various ingredients.
+ b-4) When mixing the ingredients, use batter that the hosts prepared. They will be mingled together.
+ b-4) Have a special ceremony to eat Buchimgae, which is tearing it all together :) (Normally a page of Buchimgae is supposed to be had together.
+ b-5) Just enjoying it!
+
- What if we create a moment of collective book binding?
We could
- also host a small Buchimgae cooking session! In Korea we actually
- say Buchimage one/two/three/.. page when counting the number of it.
- Just like a book..! This could be another format of the (book)
- binding.
+ Before starting the cooking session, we explained what Buchimgae is. We tried to let them know that the pancake can be an experimental format of a publication.
+ In Korea, the number of Buchimgae is counted as a page (of a book). We call it like Buchimgae 1,2,3 jang (=page)...
- Aha, everyone makes their own pages.
- Then bind them in a relay format?!
+ Floor, one of the participants, were cutting a tomato! That was juicy.
- Maybe it would have been nicer if we have the participants to sit in - mixed composition. -
-- Some participants were already close eacch other and mainly spoke in - Italian in their own group. + Another group seemed to create a concept of their pancake as a scenery of Tredozio. The orange sky and green fields...
+ - Maybe it would have been nicer if we have the participants to sit in - mixed composition. -
-- Some participants were already close eacch other and mainly spoke in - Italian in their own group. + A group with Floor and Pongie decorated theirs in a super elegant way. It was just like a plate served from a high-end fine dining restaurant.
+ - Maybe it would have been nicer if we have the participants to sit in - mixed composition. -
-- Some participants were already close eacch other and mainly spoke in - Italian in their own group. + Haha, Lino and Illo created a pancake with the face of Bilbi! Would Bilbi know this?
- Maybe it would have been nicer if we have the participants to sit in - mixed composition. -
-- Some participants were already close eacch other and mainly spoke in - Italian in their own group. + Another pancake with their names written! It was quite a statement :)
+
- Maybe it would have been nicer if we have the participants to sit in - mixed composition. + Every group finished their pancakes. We all gathered into a dining room. Pongie was so passionate to present the pancake of his group.
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+ 
- Maybe it would have been nicer if we have the participants to sit in - mixed composition. + I have a great idea!?
- Maybe it would have been nicer if we have the participants to sit in - mixed composition. + 3, 2, 1, Yayyyyy!!!! We tored a pancake together!