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1_situation/content/10steps_3.md

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+<p class="tensteps"> step 3. touch the paper you have, fold it, write on it. is it too thick? too thin? too yellow? check what's right and what's not for you.
+</p>

1_situation/content/10steps_7.md

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+<p class="tensteps"> step 7. is there any addition that would make your notebook even more practical?
+</p>

1_situation/content/altmaterials_bone.md

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+### tools to make notebooks: do you need a folding bone?
+This tool helps us to fold the sheets to avoid breaking paper, especially if thick, and to be more precise. For this, you can use the back side of any metal knife. Or anything that is flat, hard and with a smooth surface that you can easily hold in your hands. Try with other objects too, you will be surprised!

1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_1.md

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+#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one
++it occupies less space but offers bigger pages
+
++the additional lateral wings allow modularity: the user can move the wings to connect with multiple pages at the same time 
+
++if the user forgets something the wings give more space to write
+
+-the fact that it's folded means it's thicker and it's difficult to write if it's too big

1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_10.md

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+#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one
+18.01.2023
+It feels better to have metal rings and the chance to position every sheet where I want.
+
+CONS. I am very unorganised. At the moment I am always writing everything that comes very fast, in whatever position in the page. This leads to a big amount of content without a structure/any entry point. It is not accessible after some time I wrote things down.

1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_15.md

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+#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one
+15.03.23
+Yesterday I discovered I hate writing on vertical large notebooks. I always start making lists and it's never visual and I hate it because I get super lost and also in conversation/brainstorming notes there is no structure at all and I feel uncomfortable because I am not sure I can trust my own notes. In addition, metal rings don't work for me. I am too messy, I have texts everywhere, I cannot track the last thing I wrote, I need to go in order. 

1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_2.md

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+#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one
+materials used:
+
+-a4 multiple types of papers (white, cream, coloured, thicker, thinner etc..)
+
+-a4 wrong prints
+
+-amazon cardboard

1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_4.md

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+#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: some new ideas on how to play with the structure of the notebook
+30.09.22
+Thought about the fact that the limit of binding is that there's no space for easy customisation or add-ons after it's closed at the beginning. Instead of the *notebook kit*, where i felt there was too little rigid structure and the user could feel too lost, i imagined to use the same technique starting from a bound one [name: *the infinite notebook*]. It is bound, but free to move: the user is also able to cut out pages, re-position but also keep in what they care about.

1_situation/content/processnotes_1.md

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+#### PROCESS NOTES: the past
+The main concept of using leftovers to make notebooks was born while I was making a book as a Christmas gift for a friend: it was late and I could not go and buy anything so I used every type of paper I had in the house. Different papers, with different weights, different colours, everything kept inside an Amazon box’s cardboard. I realized how interesting it was to create books from waste and finding ways to make it work.

1_situation/content/processnotes_16.md

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+#### PROCESS NOTES: why notebooks?
+22.09.22
+I have always been interested in the materiality of objects and their touch and how to build things myself. A lot is also about subjectivity and modularity: I am fascinated by the fact that, also a publication, for example, can be created in a way that every person that uses it can react in their own way. I think it's a lot about disrupting known formats and ideas.

1_situation/content/processnotes_6.md

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+#### PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process
+**What are the negative sides? What could be a different approach to solve the issue?**
+
+If what has been analysed above did not work, why didn't it work? Analysing what worked and what did not help to reason on new ways to solve the issue.

1_situation/content/questions_10.md

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+#### Q: how to make a notebook that can travel? 
+notebook-crossing?

1_situation/content/questions_17.md

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+#### Q: How to transform anxieties into notebooks' features?
+Thought about how the uncomfortabilities felt with a notebooks can come from certain anxieties we have in life and how we can transform those anxieties into notebooks features (e.g. how can I make a notebook public without thinking that what I write is stupid?).

1_situation/content/questions_2.md

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+#### Q: can you make a notebook that slows you down? 
+11.10.22
+from M&Ms° "smoothest paper to prevent myself from hesitating because of no friction" = friction slows down 

1_situation/content/sessionsnotes_10.md

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+#### CONVERSATIONS ON NOTEBOOKS
+[ ] crave for the format of a book
+
+need to be compact and stable
+
+if narrows help writing, so like columns and foldings
+
+[ ] like to play around
+
+how to combine together? rip off bad pages to recombination them
+
+paper didn't allow flexibility

1_situation/content/thesis_14.md

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+## thesis excerpts: the spatial memory
+A process takes place when we take notes and the type of interface we use to do it makes a difference: “The hippocampus is crucially involved not only in memory encoding and retrieval processes but also in spatial memory itself” (Umejima et al., 2021). (..) Throughout my research, I discovered how much it is important, for recovery and reviewing reasons, where I specifically write words or sentences. Recently, I found myself scared of forgetting because the pages of an unfitting notebook did not allow a proper instinctive positioning of the content while taking notes.

1_situation/content/thesis_9.md

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+## thesis excerpts: notebook as subversion
+I chose an object or medium which is the emblem of productivity and that participates in consumerist practices. The aim is to convert it from an industrial model to a tool of expression, a self-thought and subversive object.

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/create_new_connections.md

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+# to create new connections between content
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_1.png" alt="situation">

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/fastnotes.md

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+# for fast notes
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_1.png" alt="situation">

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/for_personal_thoughts.md

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+# for personal thoughts
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_1.png" alt="situation">

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/long_lecture.md

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+# for a long lecture
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_1.png" alt="situation">

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/map_of_thoughts.md

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+# to create a map of thoughts to look at all together
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_1.png" alt="situation">

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/not_to_hesitate_writing.md

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+# not to hesitate while writing/approaching the space
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_1.png" alt="situation">

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/not_to_waste.md

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+# not to waste materials
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_1.png" alt="situation">

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_16.md

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+#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the last one
+15.03.23
+I will take *the one that did not work* I made in december and rip it apart. I will 1) change the cover, it was too hard and felt very difficult to open and use. 2) add the pockets as they have been very useful. 3) get rid of one of the signatures as I had to make it smaller. 4) I made some of the folded sheets a bit wider and some less and I want to see if those cm more I have will influence how I feel. As with the wide sheets I am having problems, how much do I have to reduce it to make it the perfect width? 

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_15.md

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+#### PROCESS NOTES: why reusing materials?
+22.09.22
+I started to make recycled notebooks during my bachelor's already, in that case it was mostly just about recycling and reusing materials and I really enjoyed to use trash to make notebooks. Then I heard a lot of people feeling guilty in using nice notebooks. I thought that trashy notebooks could therefore be better for people because they would get used.

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_22.md

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+#### PROCESS NOTES: let's think
+18.04.23 [from Aymeric° lecture's notes]
+Let's think about how we make things: if i want to address something, the way I do it is as much as important as the content that I choose. Let's challenge the tools of production, the medium, the space in which it's been produced, how and where the work will circulate.

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_7.md

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+#### PROCESS NOTES: general rule on making notebooks
+It is important to have entry points to access the notebook. This means having a structure that does not slow you down or interrupt the moment in which you want to write something down.

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/questions_1.md

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+#### Q: who do you write for?
+03.10.22
+time-specific writing [erica° said]= writing that makes sense only in the moment you wrote it.

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/questions_9.md

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+#### Q: how to make a notebook as an act of rebellion?

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_11.md

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+#### CONVERSATIONS ON NOTEBOOKS
+[ ] questions to the point
+write differently on the shape they made
+
+the shape changes the way I write
+vertical words in lines give me the urgency to let things out --> let's bind together the urgent notes
+
+[ ] narrow paper for stream of consciousness and play like notebooks with columns

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/stream_of_consciousness.md

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+# to help a stream of consciousness
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_1.png" alt="situation">

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/temporary_notes.md

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+# for temporary notes
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_1.png" alt="situation">

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_1.md

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+## thesis excerpts: what is a notebook?
+“The notebook as a paper machine consists of the functions noting and storing of notes. ‘To note’ means first and foremost ‘to write down’, from the Latin ‘notare’, or from ‘noscere’, which means ‘to get to know’. (...) writing results in a praxis with paper that requires certain gestures, performed acts, rituals and tools.” (te Heesen, 2005)

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_5.md

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+## thesis excerpts: the gloss and the summa
+A new need arose from the growth of accessibility to books: how to deal with contradictory information. One solution has been the ‘gloss’, which consisted in adding comments in small cursive on the side of a text. Another solution that appeared in the XII century was called ‘summa’ or summary, which purpose was to cut “the diverse interpretations to establish a core of truth” (Hobart and Schiffman, 2000): it began with a question, then contrasting opinions were listed and it ended with a conclusion or ‘sententia’. 

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_calm_anxiety.md

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+# to calm anxiety
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_1.png" alt="situation">

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_describe_one_experience.md

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+# to describe one experience
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_1.png" alt="situation">

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_forget.md

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+# to forget things
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_1.png" alt="situation">

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_organise.md

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+# to organise scattered thoughts
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_1.png" alt="situation">

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_remember.md

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+# to remember things
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_1.png" alt="situation">

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_share.md

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+# to share with others
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_1.png" alt="situation">

1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/transportable.md

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+# transportable
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_1.png" alt="situation">

2_binding/content/10steps_4.md

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+<p class="tensteps"> step 4. while wondering around your pages, consider when you wrote something, in which situation, for which reason. do you know how is the notebook supporting you? </p>

2_binding/content/10steps_8.md

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+<p class="tensteps"> step 8. should the cover be hard or soft? can you re-use a cardboard you already have? or maybe a parcel you received yesterday?
+</p>

2_binding/content/altmaterials_awl.md

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+### tools to make notebooks: do you need an awl?
+What is it? This is not a hole puncher, but more like a hole maker. You'll need this in case of a thread binding, to help your needle to pass through the sheets correctly (the sheets need to be alligned - if that's what you want) In this case, a knife would not work. What about a needle? That's already what will pass through the holes. You can also use a needle that is a tiny bigger than the one you'll use for binding later. Yes, it does hurt a bit when the paper is not very thin. A solution is creating your own tool, by attaching or glueing a needle inside anything that you can hold with one hand. 

2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_14.md

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+#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one
+14.02.23
+I noticed how much i work with numbered lists when i have a flat sheet of paper. I think it's pretty evident, looking at *the first notebook* and *the ring one*, how much the shape changed the content. It is very hard right now to use this notebook for brainstorming. I am only writing lines of text and cannot connect with other things at all.

2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_20.md

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+#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the letter one
+20.03.23
+From the first CES°, I had this recurrent idea in my head: one of the participants made this very very long strip-notebook, underlining how much the narrowness of the paper would help them to free their mind and free-write. Therefore, I bound this *letter notebook* with a little string to close it so that it would resemble a gift. I folded it, so that the length would be discovered just after opening (surprise effect). Then I free wrote both letters: they came out quite different from each other.

2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_5.md

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+#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: some new ideas on how to play with the structure of the notebook
+30.09.22
+This idea works on the concept of modularity: reconnecting content between the three sections of the book, making possible to have an overview of the content even when the space on the column is finished. By choosing a specific method (that could be colours, page number, or even a personal one created on the go) it should become intuitive to move in the space of the *triad notebook*.

2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_7.md

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+#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the notebook kit
+09.11.22
+I tried the concept of the notebook kit I made for supi° on myself. It has been helpful to reorganise thoughts in very small sheets of paper. This obliged me to describe a concept in a little amount of words.
+The second characteristic is that it allows me to move the sheets around and then attach them together when I finalise decisions.
+It was helpful for the purpose, but the overall idea is that it's very fragile and not very usable if not sitting at a desk. It can help to explain concepts and ideas but it is of any use as a portable notebook.

2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_8.md

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+#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: new idea for books' annotations
+12.11.22
+I need a notebook for ideas sketching and development = where to write down a sudden idea fast and easy and then have the space to develop it in the future = organised but free space to express maybe with a little sum-up section

2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_9.md

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+#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the one that did not work
+05.12.22
+I found some problems in this new version I made:
+It's very inflexible. I cannot turn it around, I cannot open the pages completely and I cannot use the two pages as a whole because the curve is too big. It's too thick and bulky. I cannot transport it easily, there are too many pages to start from. I tried to insert different sections. The problem is I am not able, every time I take notes, to visualise in which area the content I want to write should go into, so then it ends up that I don't write at all because I do not know where to start.

2_binding/content/processnotes_14.md

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+#### PROCESS NOTES: why notebooks?
+22.09.22
+The reason why I am interested in notebooks is that I find it weird that every person writes in the same way with the same device and it doesn’t make sense because we are all different and need different methods to engage with a piece of paper, annotate things, remember things, learn things. Not every is one fit.

2_binding/content/processnotes_5.md

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+#### PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process
+**What are the positive sides? Does it work within the starting purpose?**
+
+This is to understand if the solutions that have been found and applied to the new notebook are valid and working. This is important mostly not to lose track of the reasons underneath the concept and to evaluate how much the modifications worked.

2_binding/content/processnotes_8.md

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+#### PROCESS NOTES: when i can't use a notebook
+What interrupts me from using a notebook is that I do not know where to position the sudden ideas or thoughts I have. From this statement, I understand that what I need from the next notebook is to have the possibility to immediately write down what I have in mind, wherever I position it, without feeling any guilt regarding the appearance of the pages of my notebook. It is also important that it does not look too perfect, so that I feel okay in using what I have however I want.

2_binding/content/questions_16.md

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+#### Q: What makes a notebook a notebook?
+05.04.23
+When something gets printed, does it stop to be a notebook? 
+
+Clara° and I discussed about the limits of the pages, how paper books do not allow annotation because of the little space in the margines. We tried to define what is a notebook for us. I said that for me it's something that accompanies you in certain situations and offers a support. Clara° said they are periodicals. They are positioned in a specific location, and during a certain period of time, where and when the user goes back recurrently. 

2_binding/content/questions_7.md

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+#### Q: how to make a notebook that exaggerate the scattered and the chaos? 
+need for new inputs out of the mess

2_binding/content/sessionsnotes_1.md

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+#### CONVERSATIONS ON NOTEBOOKS: describe your notebook's practice
+[ ]
+
+Soft-cover
+
+anxiety from messy notebooks, don't wanna play with the notebook
+
+NEED line-paper, calendar and space for notes
+
+nice soft paper + perfect pen
+
+page with sticky notes to use for no-set things
+
+needs to be big enough
+
+must stay flat
+
+NO stream of consciousness
+
+YES anchor points

2_binding/content/thesis_10.md

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+## thesis excerpts: the moleskine
+In the XIX century in Europe, a specific type of notebook spread around: the moleskine. The name means ‘leather’ in English and it has been used to describe a notebook with a black cover of a very strong vinyl-coated material, a little pocket on the back and a rubber band. The notebook has been used by many famous authors and artists, becoming very well-known in Europe, “until plastic-covered ones gradually replaced them from the 1950s” (te Heesen, 2005). In 1997, Moleskine became a trademark for an Italian company and spread all over the world, evolving and following the trends to stay up to date.

2_binding/content/thesis_16.md

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+## thesis excerpts: my aim
+I aimed for users to take part in every section of the design process as well as the practical creation of the object, to explore the endless spaces of a notebook and the memories and knowledge hidden inside of it.

2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/already_own_cardboard.md

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+# to adapt a cardboard you already own
+<img class="game" src="/script/icons/icon_2.png" alt="binding">