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We tried to define what is a notebook for us. I said that for me it is 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. \ No newline at end of file +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/content/sessionsnotes_1.md b/2_binding/content/sessionsnotes_1.md index 9190771..6d372d9 100644 --- a/2_binding/content/sessionsnotes_1.md +++ b/2_binding/content/sessionsnotes_1.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -#### NOTES FROM SESSIONS: describe your notebook's practice -[] +#### CONVERSATIONS ON NOTEBOOKS: describe your notebook's practice +[ ] Soft-cover @@ -17,8 +17,4 @@ must stay flat NO stream of consciousness -YES anchor points - -what get lost when organising/moving - -thoughts from brain to written material? \ No newline at end of file +YES anchor points \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/Image-9.jpg b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/Image-9.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e21fc5a Binary files /dev/null and b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/Image-9.jpg differ diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/_DSC0035.jpg b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/_DSC0035.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index d9df028..0000000 Binary files a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/_DSC0035.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_2.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_2.md index da3d7d4..df8e971 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_2.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_2.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -#### NOTES FROM SESSIONS: describe your notebook's practice -[] +#### CONVERSATIONS ON NOTEBOOKS: describe your notebook's practice +[ ] smoothest paper to prevent myself from hesitating because of no friction diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/altmaterials_cutmat.md b/3_paperformat/content/altmaterials_cutmat.md index efbe5de..c3617d8 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/content/altmaterials_cutmat.md +++ b/3_paperformat/content/altmaterials_cutmat.md @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ ### alternative materials: do you need a cutting mat? -This is easy. If you need to cut paper, there are two ways: or you fold it and insert your knife in the fold to separate the two parts. This method works well if you, for example, when you need the sheet you own to be cut in two identical parts. The other way works especially if you own a real and sharp paper cutter. You will need a ruler positioned on top of the paper, with the measurements marked, and something that works as a cutting mat. I once used another notebook, but that was radical. Other options are any piece of wood or thick cardboard, anything that nobody cares if it get ruined with cut lines. +This is easy. If you need to cut paper, there are two ways: or you fold it and insert your knife in the fold to separate the two parts. This method works well if you, for example, when you need the sheet you own to be cut in two identical parts. The other way works especially if you own a real and sharp paper cutter. You will need a ruler on top of the paper, with the measurements marked, and a sort of cutting mat. I once used another notebook, but that was radical. 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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.

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-supi (xpub classmate) noticed how much a different tool/pen has a different result on her way of working/drawing/thinking, how much it makes a difference in the act of playing with the use of the pen. in this case, paper has a substantial impact on the results, so that often pen and paper goes together. supi has started with a common (basical structure) notebook, then moved to other prototypes. one that she made herself (and to which i contributed with a simple rubber band to avoid the paper from breaking), in which she's using photocopies paper (more simple it is, the least guilty the user will feel while using it) and a 0.38 Muji pen. This type of notebook is giving Supi more space for organisation (or mess) but especially, it's creating new and unexpected connection between the content of the pages. -29.09.22 -

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-during the first semester at xpub I have been using an iperborea notebook, measurements: 10x20 I find it amazing but the fact that it involves cutting paper out, I didn’t want to create a new notebook out of that idea without finding a solution that would not waste anything -I thought about folding instead of cutting and I actually came up with a nice solution: -folding both sides -I thought it was nice to add additional notes on the side of the main sheets. -this option later suggested an additional possible feature: folding just on one side to create a bigger paper sheet, by opening it. -the idea is to create a notebook that permits the user to play it around and adapt it to their own needs -see modularity: “the degree to which a system’s components may be separated and recombined, often with the benefit of flexibility and variety in use” (Ampatzidou et al., 2020) -30.03.22 - -

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I made some modifications to the metal ring notebook: -added color separation for sections equipped with a small pocket; is it going to work? -the sections are: notes on texts, thesis to do lists, project brainstorming, archipelago, personal stuff. -a pen holder -a4 sheets folded in half that allow a more structured note-taking; they are thinner than the old ones -09.02.23 -

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-+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 -+it allows me to move around the sheets and then attach them together when I finalised decisions -+it was helpful for this specific purpose of reorganising and connecting thoughts --it's very fragile and not very usable if not sitting at a desk. It can help to explain concepts and ideas, through the unfolding and opening mechanism, but it is of any use as a portable notebook -09.11.22 -

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-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. --I feel restricted in the moment I have to write on a flat a5 page. I feel like the content is never organised because I can write in every direction and most of the time I use visual note-taking, or note-making, especially the circular method (have starting points in the middle and then move around it), i get lost in the space because I have space with no interruptions or limitations. --i always forget to write dates because it feels very temporary. --i hate how the pages turn around the rings because there is not the right amount of pages to turn it properly. --i do not like the paper I am using right now because it is not flexible or foldable in any way. FOLDABILITY HELPS ME. -+my thoughts are never interrupted because it is a very accessible notebook. I do not feel bad in start writing wherever I find it fitting. -+I can position every sheet where I want, moving them around after use. -18.01.2023 -

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-+it occupies less space but offers bigger pages -+the additional lateral flaps allow modularity: the user can move the flaps to connect with multiple pages at the same time -+if the user forgets something the flaps give more space to write -+the flaps can be used differently by everyone --the fact that it’s folded means it’s thicker and it’s difficult to write if it’s too big -+by using it horizontally the above problem is resolved -+can have patterns/contents that move from the flaps to different pages throughout the notebook [also at later stages if you are still working on the topic] -+fold page wing to avoid the page to be moved by the wind (!!!) -+offer different types of paper to people if they want to draw (or whatever) without ruining the binding and of a nice shape//vertical --still can’t write because it’s too big --it can get wet --> make it waterproof -20.03.22 -

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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 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. That said, I will take the last vertical notebook I made in december and rip it apart and 1-change the cover, it was too hard and felt very difficult to open and use. 2-still add the pockets because I am using them in the metal ring one and they are very useful. This also allows me to have flaps on the cover that are also useful to easily find where is the last writing 3-I got rid of one of the signatures I had to make it a bit smaller. 4-I also noticed that I made some of the folded sheets a bit wider than the 20x30 that I used before and some less and I want to see if that 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? I will keep you updated. -15.03.23 -

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-I want to have more, to be able to play with my notebook, to know it better. I started to reason on how, as we’ve been creating our personal tools online, we could also create our personal analogue tools. Notebooks are individual and personal objects, but they’re treated like everyone has the same need from a piece of paper. -Someone said (Brendan Howell): our collective work is having new ideas to find better alternatives to th(e ma)instream ways that shut down every imagination chance, they offer the ‘best’ way. Do it in a different way. + “Thus, throughout, I demonstrate how a certain thread of experimental poetry has always been engaged with questioning the media by which it is made and through which it is consumed” [Emerson, L., 2014] —> the medium is the message [Mcluhan, 2013] -19.09.22 -

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There are a lot of locations in almost every city that collect paper that cannot be used anymore. Luckly, nowadays, most of these locations, such as printing spaces, stationery shops, book makers, separate and recycle the materials they cannot use. Most of the times, these leftovers are in a very long rectangolar shape, do you know why? When you print, but the shape of your print doesn't 100% fit the paper sheet you are printing on, this produces a lot of leftovers, mainly on one side or two of the sheet.

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-These locations do not only offer small rectangular sheets, but sometimes they get rid of stocks they can't use anymore. When you walk around a city, and pass by a stationery, get in and have a look. You might be surprised! Same in printing locations. -

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Cardboards from packages are quite common to have in a house. they become the perfect cover for notebooks. sometimes their shape becomes an invitation for a shape you did not think of before, or helps imagine an add-on that can become essential in your notebook practice.

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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 sum-up window/space -I always feel like when I write on my paper notebooks is never definitive, i feel it like a work in progress that then is completed when I move the notes on my laptop. If I move them on my laptop not organised I feel stressed because it doesn't allow me to think/reason/process but it doesn't even allow my brain to relax because things are in order.

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-offers four different features to invite the act of making a notebook and reason on the properties of all the features. -read and imagine the connections that are randomly created more as a story, could that happen to you? what would YOU need in that specific situation? e.g.: "I go in different locations to take notes so I need a notebook that is transportable (A); it does not have a binding (B); it needs a lot of space (C) for writing and sketching; it can have an additional feature if I find leaflets or information sheets around that I need to save (D) in this notebook" -*if some matches are contraddictory, for example, one asks for a lot of space for writing and the other says small, imagine how could that work. If you are obliged to use a certain type of paper that doesn't satisfy other requests, why does it happen? Explaining yourself things while playing helps to understand how different materials and structures influence us.

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-*if some matches are contraddictory, for example, one asks for a lot of space for writing and the other says small, imagine how could that work. If you are obliged to use a certain type of paper that doesn't satisfy other requests, why does it happen? Explaining yourself things while playing helps to understand how different materials and structures influence us.

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-how to make a notebook that can travel? -

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-How to make a notebook that can give the user the possibility to to build the notebook based on the momentary need that comes out while using it? -*→ Analysis of the 'first notebook kit' from needs point of view: this notebook was made out of the need of space and freedom, no restrictions but an open and accessible interface that allows the user to build the notebook based on the momentary need that comes out while using it. * -

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-how to make a notebook that helps not to forget the notebook? *need to remember to remember* -

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-how to make a notebook to experience the world? -*idea for a notebook that does not imply to be looking back at notes: if i destroy the paper sheets of a notebook in water, then i make a new notebook out of it, then i melt it again, and again, it should become smaller and smaller?* -

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-how to make a notebook to protect yourself from the outside? *need for personal space*

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-how to make a notebook that exaggerates the scattered and the chaos? -*need for new inputs out of the mess -*

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-how to make a notebook that is easy to navigate? - -

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-how to make a notebook to collect scattered notes? - -

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-how to make a notebook as an act of rebellion? - -

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-how to make a notebook that slows you down? -*--> from conversations 'smoothest paper to prevent myself from hesitating because of no friction' = friction slows down* -

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-how to make a notebook not to categorise? -

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-The methods I used to feed this publication are multiple experiments and approaches I worked with between March 2022 and April 2023. The first one is my personal notebook process that consists in the creation of different prototypes to analyse and question my use of notebooks and to discover how to modify them to adjust them to my needs. The second method is discussion groups to collect opinions through conversation and questions. The third one involves gathering and analysing the work of other users to understand how they approach the same process. The last method is the Collaborative Explorative Sessions (C.E.S.): the C.E.S. are a collaborative playground to experiment with a collection of exercises together with the workshop participants. I created the C.E.S. through the knowledge adquired in the process and specifically thanks to the first three methods included in the research, as well as inspired by Generative Design Research, which includes the end user in the design process (Sanders and Stappers, 2014).

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-All the methods will not be discussed inside this publication, but relating thoughts and opinions will be presented in some of the cards. In addition, the results of the research are published in the thesis, "Paper Notebooks: From an Industrial Model to a Tool of Expression" (2023) produced in the context of the graduation research from the Experimental Publishing (XPUB) Master course at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.

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A personal notebook process -is the ever-changing process a person can go through, by analysing and keeping attention to their individual note-taking activity and their use of paper notebooks to understand themselves and their needs.

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-I wanted this publication to have two main characteristics: modular and customisable. -The modularity became important to me and my way of taking notes and making notebooks. Modularity allows reconnections, both physically both content-wise. In this context, I decided to produce this publication as a physical 'random choice' to access the content: rotating the cards on the rings, the materials are scattered and re-connected by the user (you).

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-It becomes customisable because of the type of binding I used. I was not happy use plastic instead of metal, but i had this publication to allow a almost 360 degrees rotation so that all the content in the rows could reconnect to the other rows. I was also not happy with being obliged to buy something specific to achieve my intent. I normally try to find the easiest and most accessible options. To solve both problems, I am happy with what I chose: it lets you, the user, to take possession of this object and participate in its use and creation. This type of spine can be reused for making new notebooks, e.g. it can be cut in smaller pieces to experiment with small notebooks. You can get rid of all the pages I provided, and fill it in with yours. You can mix mines with yours. In addition, the pages can become cards and be used without the spine. Would they still be a book then?

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One of the main urgency I have to talk about this topic is that both from my personal experience and the experiences of others during growth: standardisation of abilities, of desires, ways of living. -We are supposed to satisfy standards and generalisations throughout our entire lives, structures in which some people feel comfortable in and some others not at all, especially if we talk about young humans that are still building up on their personality and still discovering their abilities and strategies. -In general, in society, I don't like that we are expected or used to be all the same, that expressing who we are is not part of daily life but many times it's a shaming process that has a lot of impact on growth and development of self. I feel that with the spread of consumerism we got used to the idea that we can just buy objects and it doesn't really matter if they're made for us in the same way they are made for everyone else in the world. How to challenge this?

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I would like this research to be a sort of manifesto for a general context but using the notebook as a "metaphor": who are you? how does your brain work? how do your ideas come along? what are your needs from a tool that society provided in a standardised form? -It is not only about making a notebook, is how making a notebook will put us in the position of questioning who we are and the objects we use, why we use them and how something made for us from us could look like.

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i wanted to make this publication to have two characteristics: modular and customisable. -The modularity is something that became important to me and my way of taking notes and making notebooks. Modularity allows reconnections, both physically both content wise. In this context, I decided to have the entire publication as a physical "random choice" to access the content. It becomes customisable because of the type of binding i went for. I was not happy to go for plastic instead of metal, but i had the publication to allow a almost 360 degrees rotation so that all the content in the rows could reconnect to the other rows. I was also not happy with having the problem of being obliged to buy something specific to achieve my intent. I normally try to find the most easy and accessible options. To solve both problems, I am happy with what I chose in the end because it lets you, the user, to take possession of this object and participate in its use and creation. This type of spine can be cut in smaller pieces if you want to experiment with small notebooks, or reused if you want to try to make your own, following some instructions contained in this book maybe. You can get rid of all the pages i provided, and fill it in with yours. You can mix mines with yours. In addition, the pages can become cards and be used without the spine. Would they still be a book then? -I also inserted some empty pages in the publication, to let some space for thoughts or ideas, if they come while browsing through. The main reason though, is that i have been questioning when a notebook is not a notebook anymore. I knew this publication was going to be printed, but i hope that through this different considerations, for some this could still be defined as a notebook. -The content comes all from my reflections and the notes I took, both on my laptop and on my notebooks. They were notes and now, after printing them out i wonder, are they still? - -The publication is also printed on an a4 to avoid paper waste. it uses 5 different types of paper to help the user try out and feel different options already intrinsicly within the publication. - -01.05.23 -MAKE IT OPENABLE (apribile) WHY: because, in this way, the entire book can be taken apart and become a notebook, or just be taken apart and the rings can be used for something else and the prints can be moved around or used as cards, or attached on walls or anywhere. it opens a bit the concept of book and re-connect it to a printed notebook (a notebook that has inside printed parts that "helps" the user to create content or orientate in the space) - -but it also gives the freedom to completely tear it apart- I like the idea that a book is something "stable" and in this way my work is more similar to a notebook i added notes on and leave space to others to contribute or make their own version of it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/infos_IN/howsmade/howismade/howsmade copy 3.md b/content/infos_IN/howsmade/howismade/howsmade copy 3.md deleted file mode 100644 index c8c9a73..0000000 --- a/content/infos_IN/howsmade/howismade/howsmade copy 3.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -# [°] -## HOW IS THIS PUBLICATION MADE -

i wanted to make this publication to have two characteristics: modular and customisable. -The modularity is something that became important to me and my way of taking notes and making notebooks. Modularity allows reconnections, both physically both content wise. In this context, I decided to have the entire publication as a physical "random choice" to access the content. It becomes customisable because of the type of binding i went for. I was not happy to go for plastic instead of metal, but i had the publication to allow a almost 360 degrees rotation so that all the content in the rows could reconnect to the other rows. I was also not happy with having the problem of being obliged to buy something specific to achieve my intent. I normally try to find the most easy and accessible options. To solve both problems, I am happy with what I chose in the end because it lets you, the user, to take possession of this object and participate in its use and creation. This type of spine can be cut in smaller pieces if you want to experiment with small notebooks, or reused if you want to try to make your own, following some instructions contained in this book maybe. You can get rid of all the pages i provided, and fill it in with yours. You can mix mines with yours. In addition, the pages can become cards and be used without the spine. Would they still be a book then? -I also inserted some empty pages in the publication, to let some space for thoughts or ideas, if they come while browsing through. The main reason though, is that i have been questioning when a notebook is not a notebook anymore. I knew this publication was going to be printed, but i hope that through this different considerations, for some this could still be defined as a notebook. -The content comes all from my reflections and the notes I took, both on my laptop and on my notebooks. They were notes and now, after printing them out i wonder, are they still? - -The publication is also printed on an a4 to avoid paper waste. it uses 5 different types of paper to help the user try out and feel different options already intrinsicly within the publication. - -01.05.23 -MAKE IT OPENABLE (apribile) WHY: because, in this way, the entire book can be taken apart and become a notebook, or just be taken apart and the rings can be used for something else and the prints can be moved around or used as cards, or attached on walls or anywhere. it opens a bit the concept of book and re-connect it to a printed notebook (a notebook that has inside printed parts that "helps" the user to create content or orientate in the space) - -but it also gives the freedom to completely tear it apart- I like the idea that a book is something "stable" and in this way my work is more similar to a notebook i added notes on and leave space to others to contribute or make their own version of it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/infos_IN/howsmade/howismade/howsmade copy.md b/content/infos_IN/howsmade/howismade/howsmade copy.md deleted file mode 100644 index 87f6170..0000000 --- a/content/infos_IN/howsmade/howismade/howsmade copy.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -# [°°] -## How is this -

It becomes customisable because of the type of binding i chose. I was not happy to go for plastic instead of metal. Though, i needed the publication to allow an almost 360 degrees rotation so that all the cards could reconnect with each other. I was also not happy with being obliged to buy something specific to achieve my intent. I normally try to find the most easy and accessible options. To solve both problems, I am happy with what I chose in the end because it lets you, the user, to take possession of this object and participate in its use and creation. This type of spine can be cut in smaller pieces if you want to experiment with small notebooks; reused if you want to try to make your own, following some instructions contained in this book. You can get rid of all the pages i provided, and fill it in with yours. You can mix mines with yours. In addition, the pages can become cards and be used without the spine. Would they still be a book then?

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i wanted this publication to have two main characteristics: modular and customisable. -The modularity became important to me and my way of taking notes and making notebooks throughout time. Modularity allows reconnections, both physically both content wise. In this context, I decided to have the entire publication as a physical 'random-choice' to access the content. - - - -I also inserted some empty pages in the publication, to let some space for thoughts or ideas, if they come while browsing through. The main reason though, is that i have been questioning when a notebook is not a notebook anymore. I knew this publication was going to be printed, but i hope that through this different considerations, for some this could still be defined as a notebook. -The content comes all from my reflections and the notes I took, both on my laptop and on my notebooks. They were notes and now, after printing them out i wonder, are they still? - -The publication is also printed on an a4 to avoid paper waste. it uses 5 different types of paper to help the user try out and feel different options already intrinsicly within the publication. - -01.05.23 -MAKE IT OPENABLE (apribile) WHY: because, in this way, the entire book can be taken apart and become a notebook, or just be taken apart and the rings can be used for something else and the prints can be moved around or used as cards, or attached on walls or anywhere. it opens a bit the concept of book and re-connect it to a printed notebook (a notebook that has inside printed parts that "helps" the user to create content or orientate in the space) - -but it also gives the freedom to completely tear it apart- I like the idea that a book is something "stable" and in this way my work is more similar to a notebook i added notes on and leave space to others to contribute or make their own version of it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_awl.md b/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_awl.md deleted file mode 100644 index 121a124..0000000 --- a/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_awl.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -### alternative materials: do you need a 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 so a solution is attaching a needle inside anything that you can hold with one hand. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_bone.md b/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_bone.md deleted file mode 100644 index 62f8805..0000000 --- a/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_bone.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -### alternative materials: do you need a bone folder? -This tool help us to fold the sheets to avoid breaking paper, especially if thick, and essentially to be more precise. Instead, you could use the back side of any metal knife. Or anything that is flat and hard and you can easily hold in your hands. Try with other objects too, you will be surprised! diff --git a/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_cutmat.md b/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_cutmat.md deleted file mode 100644 index 0d80026..0000000 --- a/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_cutmat.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -### alternative materials: do you need a cutting mat? -This is easy. If you need to cut paper, there are two ways: or you fold it and use your knife in the fold to separate the two parts. This method works well if you, for example, start from an A4 and need to make two a5s: it means, when you need the sheet you own to be cut in two identical parts. The other way works well especially if you own a real and sharp paper cutter. You will need a ruler positioned on top of the paper, with the measurements marked, and something that works as a cutting mat. I once used another notebook, but that was radical. Other options are any piece of wood or thick cardboard, anything that nobody cares if it get ruined with cut lines. diff --git a/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_cutter.md b/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_cutter.md deleted file mode 100644 index a99c989..0000000 --- a/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_cutter.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -### alternative materials: do you need a cutter? -Any knife would help with this. Obviously, the less sharp the knife, the less polished the cut will look like. In this case, I would suggest to appreciate the rough cut: it shows the inside of the paper, it makes the notebook thicker and last but not least: if you are a perfectionist or someone who feels scared of ruining nice looking objects, this might help you to loosen yourself and feel more free to use your notebook. Bye bye guiltiness! diff --git a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_1.md b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_1.md deleted file mode 100644 index f9f7c02..0000000 --- a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_1.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -## sessions notes: 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 - -what get lost when organising/moving - -thoughts from brain to written material? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_10.md b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_10.md deleted file mode 100644 index ee7009e..0000000 --- a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_10.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ -## sessions notes: 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 diff --git a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_11.md b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_11.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5460c3d..0000000 --- a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_11.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ -## sessions notes: 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 diff --git a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_2.md b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_2.md deleted file mode 100644 index ec57663..0000000 --- a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_2.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -## sessions notes: describe your notebook's practice -[] - -smoothest paper to prevent myself from hesitating because of no friction - -don't like to have already made cover - -notebooks from teenage years: I would neglect and let it sink - -need for personal space, use notebooks to create a personal space \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_3.md b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_3.md deleted file mode 100644 index 94b849a..0000000 --- a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_3.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ -## sessions notes: describe your notebook's practice -[] - -I forget things so it's helpful to remember, to centralise thoughts and let space for more things - -plain sheets - -hard cover not to break them - -separate notebooks for different needs - -to let go stuff and stop thinking \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_4.md b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_4.md deleted file mode 100644 index ee2b48d..0000000 --- a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_4.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -## sessions notes: describe your notebook's practice -[] - -pocket size notebook to bring it everywhere - -used to describe an entire experience - -sticky notes for temporary thoughts - -flexible, has dots for concepts and reflexions \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_5.md b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_5.md deleted file mode 100644 index ea4c938..0000000 --- a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_5.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ -## sessions notes: describe your notebook's practice -[] - -I keep them but I don't look back - -Notebooks to experience the world, not to keep track - -Notebooks as defence, to feel protected - -to participate in a different world - -to let things out \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_6.md b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_6.md deleted file mode 100644 index 07f71bc..0000000 --- a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_6.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -## sessions notes: describe your notebook's practice -[] - -lot of layers - -start multiple notebooks at the same time - -when it's new, the content is selected -sticky notes for temporary thoughts - -other archives/papers, content is distributed everywhere - -scattered around - -use them to visualise, it's about what it's happening right now - -not attached to one tool - -site-specific notebook - -time-based notebook \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_7.md b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_7.md deleted file mode 100644 index e6a105c..0000000 --- a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_7.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -## sessions notes: conversations on notebooks -[ ] Important thoughts and sketches - -C: I use it less than before - -E: Do you know why? - -C: What if i draw something and it's not nice? After I have drawn it then I have to keep it there, inside my notebook and the notebook is ruined with bad drawings. - -C: I compare the pages to see if they are all beautiful. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_8.md b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_8.md deleted file mode 100644 index c715303..0000000 --- a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_8.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -## sessions notes: conversations on notebooks -[ ] C: I have a notebook for a podcast I am working on - -I use lines only when I have to write everything aligned and organised - -I skim the ideas in my head first, or talking, and then I write down when I have a precise idea or keywords I am sure about. - -[ ] Sudden ideas: on her phone - -Problems/hates: - -[ ] Squared format - -[ ] Anxiety of blank pages - -[ ] What to do with the back side of paper I have written on? Waste of paper. - -[ ] Ripped pages. - -CREATIVE SOLUTION: glue one page on the top of the other - diff --git a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_9.md b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_9.md deleted file mode 100644 index 07554ee..0000000 --- a/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_9.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ -## sessions notes: conversations on notebooks -[ ] Notebooks are always too big or too small - -like long lines - -[ ] has different notes in different places, also digital - -[ ] needs to be at 90 degrees -the weird folds inspiring for drawings, not for notes because too messy - -like envelopes and foldings \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_1.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_1.md deleted file mode 100644 index 841c8ff..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_1.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -## 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) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_10.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_10.md deleted file mode 100644 index 3e20d45..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_10.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## 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). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_11.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_11.md deleted file mode 100644 index 15d9bd7..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_11.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## thesis excerpts: the importance of making DIY notebooks -Someone might think that inviting people to make personalised paper notebooks contributes to paper waste and does not participate in recycling values. Instead, if done properly, DIY can be the best solution to avoid waste and save money simultaneously. Not everyone needs to be active in the same way, but everyone can build up a certain consciousness when personally deciding which ‘ingredients’ to use, also from a monetary point of view. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_12.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_12.md deleted file mode 100644 index 4066b69..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_12.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## thesis excerpts: how note-taking affects learning -There are two ways in which the act of note-taking can affect learning: “The encoding hypothesis suggests that the processing that occurs during the act of note-taking improves learning and retention. The external storage hypothesis touts the benefits of the ability to review material” (Mueller and Oppenheimer, 2014). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_13.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_13.md deleted file mode 100644 index ecb34e2..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_13.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## thesis excerpts: the encoding function -Kiewra (1989) describes how the encoding function occurs “because note-taking activities encourage increased attention, more elaborative processing of specific ideas, and/or greater organisation of lecture material” (Einstein et al., 1985, in Kiewra, 1989). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_14.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_14.md deleted file mode 100644 index ee6f25e..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_14.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## 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). Does it make a difference to write on a physical medium? Throughout my research, I discovered how much it is important, for recovery and reviewing reasons, where I specifically write words or sentences. Recently, while using an unfitting notebook I made, I found myself scared of forgetting because the pages did not allow a proper instinctive positioning of the content while taking notes. Afterwards, it became extremely hard to retrieve what I was looking for because of how I positioned the text without a convenient structure. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_15.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_15.md deleted file mode 100644 index 138026a..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_15.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -## thesis excerpts: the bounderies of the page -The concept is that the shape and the structure of the object, the paper notebook, can influence the content and the result of the act of writing, thinking and learning. Bonnie Mak affirms that -“from a young age, we are trained to believe that the boundaries for the interface are always identical to the edges of the material platform of the page – namely, that the cognitive space and physical dimensions of the page are necessarily conterminous.” (Mak, 2014) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_16.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_16.md deleted file mode 100644 index 1f03312..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_16.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_17.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_17.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6c2e277..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_17.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## thesis excerpts: the value of making -As Gibson (2019) argues, making, and learning through making, provide “us with the opportunity to control the narrative of ourselves in a way that off the shelf consumption does not (..): it is an act of subversion”. What we produce with our hands suddenly becomes part of the representation of the world around us, and it includes our vision and our active participation in it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_18.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_18.md deleted file mode 100644 index 3c22752..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_18.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## thesis excerpts: levels of creativity -The most basic level of creativity is doing, which requires a minimum amount of interest. This is what happens when we use a notebook already made in the industry and bought from a shelf. The second level is adapting. This action is made to personalise and change an object you already have. If participants come to the session with a notebook they already own, they could try to change it by making little additions to it, like a back pocket, a taped new sheet, or post-its to create more space. The third level is making. This happens when we build a notebook from scratch but we follow predetermined patterns. This action needs more time and energy. The last level is creating. Creating is making something that does not yet exist. It relies on the use of raw materials and the absence of pre-existing rules. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_19.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_19.md deleted file mode 100644 index 3db9dad..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_19.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## thesis excerpts: making notebooks’ creation accessible -Recycling and reusing are important in my practice. It concerns not only materials but also the purpose of making notebooks’ creation accessible: Do I have time? How can I make things faster and easier? What if someone is not skilled or has no time? Has no materials? Where can makers gather second-hand materials for cheap/free? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_2.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_2.md deleted file mode 100644 index 550a9d1..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_2.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## thesis excerpts: what is note-taking? -Ann Blair defines note-taking as “the product of practices of reading and writing taught in school and reinforced by various cultural models” (Blair, 2010, p.5). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_3.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_3.md deleted file mode 100644 index bc1a14e..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_3.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## thesis excerpts: the origin of notebooks -Note-taking has existed for a long time but there is not much evidence of it before the XV century (Blair, 2010, p.1). Nowadays, notebooks are mostly used for annotating for later use, but in the past, they were used to organise and classify materials (Yeo, 2008). They “were part of daily life for literate, educated individuals, (..) were prompts for material that should be stored in memory” (Yeo, 2008). Paper notebooks consisted of the work of intellectuals on parchment, to transmit oral knowledge. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_4.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_4.md deleted file mode 100644 index b9285a7..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_4.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## thesis excerpts: the first codex -In the Medieval period, the first codex format for manuscripts was created, replacing the papyrus, and the purpose of use shifted “from a cumbersome mnemonic aid to a readily accessible information storehouse” (Hobart and Schiffman, 2000). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_5.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_5.md deleted file mode 100644 index a877895..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_5.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## 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 (fig.7). 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’. The need was to sum up large quantities of information to help the reader out. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_6.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_6.md deleted file mode 100644 index b0e0fdb..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_6.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## thesis excerpts: the commonplace book -During the XVI century, the commonplace books (the term in English appeared around 1578) became significant in education and pedagogy and were “private notebooks in which students and scholars kept extracts from the major classical texts” (Yeo, 2008). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_7.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_7.md deleted file mode 100644 index 1ed7d92..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_7.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## thesis excerpts: index system -By the middle of the XVII century, the need to produce new and unexpected knowledge through the creation of connections between content had emerged. One relevant work to mention is by Secondo Lancellotti (1583–1643): he created an index system (fig.9) in which he would insert “associative cross-references and pointers whenever and wherever possible, enabling the reader to surf through” all these annotations, “replacing reading with a type of early modern hypertext” (Cevolini, 2020). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_8.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_8.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6f59556..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_8.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## thesis excerpts: the problem of notebooks -We live in an era in which we can decide to continuously fulfil our desires, without wondering or understanding what we truly need or want. Many people buy a paper notebook because they are attracted by the idea they have of this object, of that nostalgic feeling of hand-writing. Yet, users of paper notebooks, as I discovered through multiple sessions and conversations, frequently tend not to start or complete their notebooks because they are not conscious of the possibilities this medium can offer. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_9.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_9.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6eeb254..0000000 --- a/content_new/thesis/thesis_9.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -## 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_1.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_1.md deleted file mode 100644 index 3174863..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_1.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ -#### 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 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_10.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_10.md deleted file mode 100644 index 2a9e8a8..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_10.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -#### 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_11.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_11.md deleted file mode 100644 index 242073b..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_11.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one -18.01.2023 -I feel restricted in the moment I have to write on a flat a5 page. I feel like the content is never organised because I can write in every direction and most of the time I use visual note-taking, or note-making, especially the circular method (have starting points in the middle and then move around it), i get lost in the space because I have no interruptions or limitations. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_12.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_12.md deleted file mode 100644 index 2e243bb..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_12.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,7 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one -18.01.2023 -FUTURE: I would like to edit the one I am already using to fix the problems I am having at the moment. --change paper --add more paper --fold paper --pay more attention when i re-organise materials \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_13.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_13.md deleted file mode 100644 index 50e5241..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_13.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one -09.02.23 -I made some modifications to the metal ring notebook: --I added color separation for sections equipped with a small pocket; is it going to work? --a pen holder --a4 sheets folded in half that allow a more structured note-taking; they are thinner than the paper I used before. Will i like it? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_14.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_14.md deleted file mode 100644 index 940bf0e..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_14.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_15.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_15.md deleted file mode 100644 index 047cc54..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_15.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_16.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_16.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6b54e5d..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_16.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one but new -15.03.23 -I will take *the last vertical notebook* 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 that 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? diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_17.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_17.md deleted file mode 100644 index 49da416..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_17.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one but new -15.03.23 -1) I noticed that I made some of the folded sheets a bit wider than the 20x30 that I used before and some less and I want to see if that 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? diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_18.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_18.md deleted file mode 100644 index caec79c..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_18.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: choice of paper -15.03.23 -I also do not like too thin paper but not too thick. It needs to fold a bit but it cannot be something like copy or office paper so between 120gsm and 200gsm. I am not also a giant fan of coloured paper to write on but I love colors so I don't really know how to solve it. I made the cover super yellow though, so maybe that will calm myself down! diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_19.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_19.md deleted file mode 100644 index 802ffd2..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_19.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the letter one -20.03.23 -I produced a special notebook to deliver a starter for a conversation around our projects to Kim and Chae (XPUB classmates). -The concept was to give each other something in form of a letter or gift, or anything we could think of, and deliver it to the others in our group. I made a sort of notebook that can be used if you need to write letters, get rid of thoughts, write fast, brainstorm for projects or writing tasks. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_2.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_2.md deleted file mode 100644 index b9ac852..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_2.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one -materials used: - -a4 multiple types of papers (white, cream, coloured, thicker, thinner etc..) - -a4 wrong prints - -amazon cardboard \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_20.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_20.md deleted file mode 100644 index b9a714f..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_20.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### 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 and folded, 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_21.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_21.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7d14868..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_21.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the letter one -20.03.23 -**Comments from receivers:** discussion on how the container/shape of the gift gave the idea on how to use it, it is playful as it's long. Focus on the content, automatic (free) writing, thinking in written form, a notebook is not something you share because it is difficult to understand for others as it's not finalised content. The shape set the vibe for the rest of the pages, inviting the receiver to answer to the questions in the same way, just underneath. Nice format to write a letter. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_22.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_22.md deleted file mode 100644 index ba6047e..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_22.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the last one -28.03.23 -*The last notebook* I made for myself and that I hope will follow me until graduation, as an answer to my thoughts on the 15.03.23. Overall, I am super happy with it. The fact that it fits in the inside pocket of my jacket is just one of the amazing features this notebook is offering. I am already noticing that the different width of the pages is making a difference. -``` -Look for the image in the cards -here I have written my -"thoughts on this notebook" -(hint: yellow cover). -``` \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_23.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_23.md deleted file mode 100644 index 4f0c730..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_23.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: supi's notebooks -29.09.23 -Supi (XPUB classmate) presented me some updates on the use of her notebooks. Supi noticed how much a different tool/pen has a different result on her way of working/drawing/thinking, how much it makes a difference in the act of playing with the use of the pen (the way you interact with the pen, an object that teaches her through the act of drawing - notebooks as discovery space). In this case, paper has a substantial impact on the results, so that often pen and paper goes together. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_24.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_24.md deleted file mode 100644 index dba109b..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_24.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: supi's notebooks -29.09.23 - Supi (XPUB classmate) has started with a basic notebook, then moved to other prototypes. One that she made herself (and to which I contributed with a simple rubber band to avoid the paper from breaking), in which she's using photocopies paper *(the simpler it is, the least guilty the user will feel while using it)* and a 0.38 Muji pen. This type of notebook is giving Supi more space for organisation (or mess) but especially, it's creating new and unexpected connection between the content of the pages. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_25.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_25.md deleted file mode 100644 index c090703..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_25.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: this publication -02.05.23 -MAKE IT OPENABLE because, in this way, the entire book can be taken apart and become a notebook. Or just be taken apart and the rings can be used for something else and the prints can be moved around or used as cards, or attached on walls or anywhere. It opens up a bit the concept of book and re-connect it to a printed notebook. It also gives the freedom to completely tear it apart. I like the idea that a book is something "stable" and in this way this publication is more similar to a notebook i added notes on and leave space to others to contribute or make their own version of it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_26.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_26.md deleted file mode 100644 index d68a51c..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_26.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: this publication -03.05.23 -The final publication is selected content organised and split into little cards. This content, through a python script, get inserted into an a4 template and can be printed as a booklet. Ideally, every time, the PDF comes out differently through random choice. The content mixes only in the same row, not between rows, to avoid contradictory connections (the user will be able to move them around by themselves afterwards anyway). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_3.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_3.md deleted file mode 100644 index b1f37e3..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_3.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the notebook kit -20.09.22 -I delivered to Supi the first *notebook kit: An adjustable and editable notebook with included tape and papers for continuation.* -The idea is that this type of notebooks allows the user to build it up easily as their needs come over and adjusting and editing while using it and not being forced to stay in a standardised area for standardised notebook users. diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_4.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_4.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7ac3140..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_4.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### 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 some they care about. diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_5.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_5.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6c4b8cb..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_5.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### 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, making possible to have an overview of 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*. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_6.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_6.md deleted file mode 100644 index dcc6772..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_6.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: some new ideas on how to play with the structure of the notebook -30.09.22 -Recycle notebooks paper to create new notebooks: check paper making --> if i destroy the paper sheets of a notebook in water, then i make a new notebook out of it, then i melt it again, and again, it should become smaller and smaller? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_7.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_7.md deleted file mode 100644 index fe026b8..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_7.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -#### 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 around the sheets 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_8.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_8.md deleted file mode 100644 index d20e460..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_8.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### 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 sum-up window/space \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_9.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_9.md deleted file mode 100644 index f0fb15c..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_9.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one but new -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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_1.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_1.md deleted file mode 100644 index 871b870..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_1.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -#### 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 was to create books from waste and finding ways to make it work. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_10.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_10.md deleted file mode 100644 index aac74bf..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_10.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: how this process could help you -15.03.23 -see modularity: "the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined, often with the benefit of flexibility and variety in use" (urgent publishing book) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_11.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_11.md deleted file mode 100644 index 29369e6..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_11.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: i want to play with my notebook -19.09.22 -I want to have more, to be able to play with my notebook, to know it better. I started to reason on how, as we’ve been creating our personal tools online, we could also create our personal analogue tools. Notebooks are individual and personal objects, but they’re treated like everyone has the same need from a piece of paper. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_12.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_12.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7f8a0d2..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_12.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: inspirational quotes -19.09.22 -Someone said (Brendan Howell): our collective work is having new ideas to find better alternatives to th(e ma)instream ways that shut down every imagination chance, they offer the “best” way. Do it in a different way. + "Thus, throughout, I demonstrate how a certain thread of experimental poetry has always been engaged with questioning the media by which it is made and through which it is consumed” [Lori emerson - interfaces] —> the medium is the message (mcluhan) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_13.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_13.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8468dde..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_13.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: what is experimenting? -19.09.22 -Experimenting is sometimes an hyperbole and exacerbating a concept so it also means being able to create a notebook that is no longer functional but concretely describes the meaning of the desire or need. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_14.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_14.md deleted file mode 100644 index becf64b..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_14.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: why notebooks? -22.09.22 -The reason why I am interested in notebooks is because of culture studies as well as from a practical point of view. 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_15.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_15.md deleted file mode 100644 index d97cb43..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_15.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: why notebooks? -22.09.22 -I started to make recycled notebooks during my bachelor's already, in that case it was mostly about recycling materials and reusing materials and I really enjoyed to use trash to make notebooks. I also heard a lot of people feeling guilty in using nice notebooks and trashy notebooks could therefore be better for people because they would get used. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_16.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_16.md deleted file mode 100644 index 117389d..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_16.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### 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 facinated by the fact that, even a publication for example, you can create it 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_18.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_18.md deleted file mode 100644 index 40e0e94..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_18.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: some reasons for this project to exist -(A) Design -.Theory of design is based on people needs -.The purpose is providing users with hints of accessible designs and examples of easy adds-on to apply to basic notebooks -.What if the structure of the interface could fit better our needs? diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_19.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_19.md deleted file mode 100644 index f112f85..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_19.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: some reasons for this project to exist -(B) Making -.Bookmaking to create personalised space/tool -.Making as an act of subversion: we create our own narrative, creating a memory device in which the process of creation is inscribed -.What is the feeling of being the creator of your own tool? -.The spiritual power resides in the object itself, not in its ownership \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_2.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_2.md deleted file mode 100644 index fa74b82..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_2.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: research and starting point -During the first semester at XPUB I have been using an Iperborea notebook, measurements: 10x20. I find the size amazing, but as it involves cutting paper out from an a4 sheet, I didn't want to create a new notebook out of that idea without finding a solution that would not waste anything. I thought about folding instead of cutting: it was nice to add additional notes on the side of the main sheets. diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_20.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_20.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6876b76..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_20.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: some reasons for this project to exist -(C) Learning -.Notebooks are an individual space for learning -.How knowing our thinking processes helps our learning -.Creation experience as part of the process of learning \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_21.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_21.md deleted file mode 100644 index beafa3d..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_21.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: what i would like is -18.04.23 -I would like to create (active) makers, not consumers. The final outcome needs to be something to be used to make, not only to receive/consume. I want the users of this work to participate in the act of making notebooks against capitalism and commodity practices. I want to expand the spaces of this medium. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_22.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_22.md deleted file mode 100644 index fb870ca..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_22.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: let's think -18.04.23 -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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_3.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_3.md deleted file mode 100644 index bbacbb9..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_3.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process -A personal notebook process is the ever-changing process a person can go through, by analysing and keeping attention to their individual note-taking activity and their use of paper notebooks to understand themselves and their needs. - diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_4.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_4.md deleted file mode 100644 index 84d516b..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_4.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process -**What is the starting need that brought to the creation and use of the notebook?** -This question helps to highlight the starting point and main reason for the creation of a new notebook (or modification applied). it can be described in a few words. diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_5.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_5.md deleted file mode 100644 index dbba9fc..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_5.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### 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. diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_6.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_6.md deleted file mode 100644 index 42d435c..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_6.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### 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 that was not solved. diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_7.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_7.md deleted file mode 100644 index 4b91b10..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_7.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -#### 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_8.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_8.md deleted file mode 100644 index c21c2f8..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_8.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -#### 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_9.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_9.md deleted file mode 100644 index 24f2579..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_9.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: how this process could help you -15.03.23 -What I want to say it is not necessarily that this process will make your way of writing on paper better or different, but just that it will make you feel more comfortable with the object, use it more, make more useful notes that can be reread and used. Do you think there is something you could change that will make you use the notebook more and that will help you more in your work or projects? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_1.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_1.md deleted file mode 100644 index c193af1..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_1.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_10.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_10.md deleted file mode 100644 index f4bb577..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_10.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -#### Q: how to make a notebook that can travel? -notebook-crossing? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_11.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_11.md deleted file mode 100644 index 4cdb2e2..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_11.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -#### Q: How do you work with your ideas? -Can you describe in a few words how to you think your brain works like? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_12.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_12.md deleted file mode 100644 index 0811530..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_12.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -#### Q: How do you write? -(directions, space in the nb..) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_13.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_13.md deleted file mode 100644 index 287e4b9..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_13.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -#### Q: What do you keep and what do you let go in the writing process? -Notebooks as ecology of thought: e.g. who uses it to organise, who to think, so what happens when they write it down? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_14.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_14.md deleted file mode 100644 index d547d05..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_14.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -#### Q: What is your use of notebooks? - diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_15.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_15.md deleted file mode 100644 index 713cc10..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_15.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -#### Q: What is a notebook? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_16.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_16.md deleted file mode 100644 index 16d8eb6..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_16.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -#### Q: What makes a notebook a notebook? -05.04.23 -When something gets printed, does it stop to be a notebook? -Clara (tutor) and I discussed about the limits of the pages, how basic 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 is 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_17.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_17.md deleted file mode 100644 index f4fbedf..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_17.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -#### 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?). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_2.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_2.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5080a5f..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_2.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### Q: can you make a notebook that slows you down? -11.10.22 -from M&Ms (workshop) "smoothest paper to prevent myself from hesitating because of no friction" = friction slows down \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_3.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_3.md deleted file mode 100644 index 13677b0..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_3.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### Q: what does everyone need from a notebook? -12.10.22 -Notebooks as a lens into humans' brains, why someone needs to visualise, to organise, to reason, to focus, to extract themselves? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_4.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_4.md deleted file mode 100644 index fa99b0f..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_4.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -#### Q: how to make a notebook that helps not to forget the notebook? -need to remember to remember \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_5.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_5.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5c54db1..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_5.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -#### Q: how to make a notebook to experience the world? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_6.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_6.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6537b57..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_6.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#### Q: how to make a notebook to protect yourself from the outside? -need for personal space - diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_7.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_7.md deleted file mode 100644 index 43039e9..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_7.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -#### Q: how to make a notebook that exaggerate the scattered and the chaos? -need for new inputs out of the mess diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_8.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_8.md deleted file mode 100644 index 087b26b..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_8.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -#### Q: how to make a notebook that is easy to navigate? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_9.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_9.md deleted file mode 100644 index be7b825..0000000 --- a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_9.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -#### Q: how to make a notebook as an act of rebellion? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/notebooks.html b/notebooks.html index 5a10f76..c29fd31 100644 --- a/notebooks.html +++ b/notebooks.html @@ -24,29 +24,21 @@

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What are the negative sides? What could be a different approach to solve the issue?

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PROCESS NOTES: general rule on making notebooks

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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.

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: supi's notebooks

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29.09.23 +Supi° presented me some updates on the use of her notebooks. Supi noticed how much a different tool/pen has a different result on her way of working, drawing or thinking, how much it makes a difference in the act of playing with the use of the pen (the way you interact with the pen, an object that teaches her through the act of drawing - notebooks as discovery space). In this case, the pen has a substantial impact on the results, so that often pen and paper goes together.

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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.

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thesis excerpts: the problem of notebooks

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We live in an era in which we can decide to continuously fulfil our desires, without wondering or understanding what we truly need or want. Many people buy a paper notebook because they are attracted by the idea they have of this object, of that nostalgic feeling of hand-writing. Yet, users of paper notebooks, as I discovered through multiple sessions and conversations, frequently tend not to start or complete their notebooks because they are not conscious of the possibilities this medium can offer.

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This is easy. If you need to cut paper, there are two ways: or you fold it and insert your knife in the fold to separate the two parts. This method works well if you, for example, when you need the sheet you own to be cut in two identical parts. The other way works especially if you own a real and sharp paper cutter. You will need a ruler on top of the paper, with the measurements marked, and a sort of cutting mat. I once used another notebook, but that was radical. Other options are any piece of wood or thick cardboard, anything that nobody cares if it get ruined.

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thesis excerpts: the importance of making DIY notebooks

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Someone might think that inviting people to make personalised paper notebooks contributes to paper waste and does not participate in recycling values. Instead, if done properly, DIY can be the best solution to avoid waste and save money simultaneously. Not everyone needs to be active in the same way, but everyone can build up a certain consciousness when personally deciding which ‘ingredients’ to use, also from a monetary point of view.

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CONVERSATIONS ON NOTEBOOKS: describe your notebook's practice

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There are two ways in which the act of note-taking can affect learning: “The encoding hypothesis suggests that the processing that occurs during the act of note-taking improves learning and retention. The external storage hypothesis touts the benefits of the ability to review material” (Mueller and Oppenheimer, 2014).

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What is the starting need that brought to the creation and use of the notebook?

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Q: What do you keep and what do you let go in the writing process?

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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.

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NOTES FROM SESSIONS: describe your notebook's practice

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19.09.22 +I want to have more, to be able to play with my notebook, to know it better. I started to reason on how, as we’ve been creating our personal tools online, we could also create our personal analogue tools. Notebooks are individual and personal objects, but they’re treated like everyone has the same need from a piece of paper.

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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.

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29.09.23 -Supi° presented me some updates on the use of her notebooks. Supi noticed how much a different tool/pen has a different result on her way of working, drawing or thinking, how much it makes a difference in the act of playing with the use of the pen (the way you interact with the pen, an object that teaches her through the act of drawing - notebooks as discovery space). In this case, the pen has a substantial impact on the results, so that often pen and paper goes together.

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By the middle of the XVII century, the need to produce new and unexpected knowledge through the creation of connections between content had emerged. One relevant work to mention is by Secondo Lancellotti (1583–1643): he created an index system in which he would insert “associative cross-references and pointers whenever and wherever possible, enabling the reader to surf through” all these annotations, “replacing reading with a type of early modern hypertext” (Cevolini, 2020).

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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.

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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.

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Q: how to make a notebook to protect yourself from the outside?

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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.

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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?

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Q: what does everyone need from a notebook?

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12.10.22 +Notebooks as a lens into humans' brains: why someone needs to visualise, to organise, to reason, to focus, to extract themselves?

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: supi's notebooks

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29.09.23 + Supi° has started with a basic notebook, then moved to other prototypes. One that she made herself (and to which I contributed with a simple rubber band to avoid the paper from breaking), in which she's using photocopies paper (the simpler it is, the least guilty the user will feel while using it) and a 0.38 Muji pen. This type of notebook is giving Supi more space for organisation (or mess) but especially, it's creating new and unexpected connection between the content of the pages.

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thesis excerpts: notebook as subversion

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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.

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to help a stream of consciousness

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the letter one

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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.

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step 1. take your current notebook. look at it, open it. where do you write? what do you write?

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15.03.23 -I will take the last vertical notebook 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?

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thesis excerpts: the commonplace book

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During the XVI century, the commonplace books (the term in English appeared around 1578) became significant in education and pedagogy and were “private notebooks in which students and scholars kept extracts from the major classical texts” (Yeo, 2008).

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Note-taking has existed for a long time but there is not much evidence of it before the XV century (Blair, 2010, p.1). Nowadays, notebooks are mostly used for annotating for later use, but in the past, they were used to organise and classify materials (Yeo, 2008). They “were part of daily life for literate, educated individuals, (..) were prompts for material that should be stored in memory” (Yeo, 2008). Paper notebooks consisted of the work of intellectuals on parchment, to transmit oral knowledge.

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09.02.23 -I made some modifications to the metal ring notebook:

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-a pen holder

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-a4 sheets folded in half that allow a more structured note-taking; they are thinner than the paper I used before.

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CONVERSATIONS ON NOTEBOOKS

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[ ] Notebook for important thoughts and sketches

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C: I use it less than before

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E: Do you know why?

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C: What if i draw something and it's not nice? After I have drawn it then I have to keep it there, inside my notebook and the notebook is ruined with bad drawings.

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C: I compare the pages to see if they are all beautiful.

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Q: What do you keep and what do you let go in the writing process?

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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’.

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to remember things

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vertical shape

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to separate content in different sections

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: this publication

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03.05.23 +The final publication is selected content organised and split into little cards. This content, through a python script, get inserted into an a4 template and can be printed as a booklet. Ideally, every time, the PDF comes out differently through random choice. The content mixes only in the same row, not between rows, to avoid contradictory connections (the user will be able to move them around by themselves afterwards anyway).

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PROCESS NOTES: concepts overview

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(B) Making

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-Bookmaking to create personalised space/tool

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-Making as an act of subversion: we create our own narrative, creating a memory device in which the process of creation is inscribed

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-What is the feeling of being the creator of your own tool?

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-The spiritual power resides in the object itself, not in its ownership

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Q: how to make a notebook that can travel?

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notebook-crossing?

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thesis excerpts: what is a notebook?

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“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)

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one but new

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15.03.23 -1) I noticed that I made some of the folded sheets a bit wider than the 20x30 that I used before and some less and I want to see if that 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?

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with space for marginalia

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paperformat

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Q: How do you write?

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(directions, space in the nb..)

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for fast notes

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situation

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CONVERSATIONS ON NOTEBOOKS: describe your notebook's practice

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[ ]

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smoothest paper to prevent myself from hesitating because of no friction

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don't like to have already made cover

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notebooks from teenage years: I would neglect and let it sink

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need for personal space, use notebooks to create a personal space

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CONVERSATIONS ON NOTEBOOKS: describe your notebook's practice

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[ ]

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I forget things so it's helpful to remember, to centralise thoughts and let space for more things

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plain sheets

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hard cover not to break them

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separate notebooks for different needs

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to let go stuff and stop thinking

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PROCESS NOTES: what is experimenting?

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19.09.22 +Experimenting is sometimes an hyperbole and exacerbating a concept. It also means being able to create a notebook that is no longer functional but concretely describes the meaning of the desire or need.

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to separate content in different sections

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Q: How to transform anxieties into notebooks' features?

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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?).

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for a long lecture

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situation

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Q: how to make a notebook that exaggerate the scattered and the chaos?

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need for new inputs out of the mess

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Q: what does everyone need from a notebook?

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12.10.22 -Notebooks as a lens into humans' brains, why someone needs to visualise, to organise, to reason, to focus, to extract themselves?

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PROCESS NOTES: concepts overview

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(B) Making

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-Bookmaking to create personalised space/tool

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-Making as an act of subversion: we create our own narrative, creating a memory device in which the process of creation is inscribed

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-What is the feeling of being the creator of your own tool?

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-The spiritual power resides in the object itself, not in its ownership

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one but new

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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.

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thesis excerpts: the commonplace book

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During the XVI century, the commonplace books (the term in English appeared around 1578) became significant in education and pedagogy and were “private notebooks in which students and scholars kept extracts from the major classical texts” (Yeo, 2008).

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Q: How do you write?

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(directions, space in the nb..)

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one

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materials used:

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-a4 multiple types of papers (white, cream, coloured, thicker, thinner etc..)

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-a4 wrong prints

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-amazon cardboard

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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? -

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sticks

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Q: how to make a notebook that can travel?

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notebook-crossing?

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

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PROCESS NOTES: why notebooks?

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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.

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rubber band

binding

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NOTES FROM SESSIONS: describe your notebook's practice

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pocket size notebook to bring it everywhere

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used to describe an entire experience

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sticky notes for temporary thoughts

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flexible, has dots for concepts and reflexions

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to create space for temporary thoughts

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PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process

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A personal notebook process is the ever-changing process a person can go through, by analysing and keeping attention to their individual note-taking activity and their use of paper notebooks to understand themselves and their needs.

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CONVERSATIONS ON NOTEBOOKS: describe your notebook's practice

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[ ]

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I keep them but I don't look back

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Notebooks to experience the world, not to keep track

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Notebooks as defence, to feel protected

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to participate in a different world

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to let things out

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to remember or highlight specific pages

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alternative materials: do you need a bone folder?

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This tool helps us to fold the sheets to avoid breaking paper, especially if thick, and to be more precise. Otherwise, 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!

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

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PROCESS NOTES: how this process could help you

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15.03.23 -What I want to say is not necessarily that this process will make your way of writing on paper better or different, but just that it will make you feel more comfortable with the object, use it more, make more useful notes that can be re-read and used. Do you think there is something you could change that will make you use the notebook more and that will help you more in your work or projects or any life experience?

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with a lot of space for writing

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paperformat

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to keep the notebook closed while transporting it

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addons

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thesis excerpts: what is a notebook?

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“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)

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thesis excerpts: what is note-taking?

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Ann Blair defines note-taking as “the product of practices of reading and writing taught in school and reinforced by various cultural models” (Blair, 2010, p.5).

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one

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09.02.23 +I made some modifications to the metal ring notebook:

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-I added color separation for sections equipped with a small pocket; is it going to work?

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-a pen holder

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-a4 sheets folded in half that allow a more structured note-taking; they are thinner than the paper I used before.

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Will i like it?

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thesis excerpts: notebook as subversion

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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.

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to organise scattered thoughts

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not to hesitate while writing/approaching the space

situation

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thesis excerpts: what is note-taking?

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Ann Blair defines note-taking as “the product of practices of reading and writing taught in school and reinforced by various cultural models” (Blair, 2010, p.5).

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one

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18.01.2023 -I feel restricted in the moment I have to write on a flat a5 page. I feel like the content is never organised because I can write in every direction and most of the time I use visual note-taking, or note-making, especially the circular method (have starting points in the middle and then move around it), i get lost in the space because I have no interruptions or limitations.

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squared paper

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: some new ideas on how to play with the structure of the notebook

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30.09.22 +Recycle notebooks paper to create new notebooks: check paper making --> if i destroy the paper sheets of a notebook in water, then i make a new notebook out of it, then i melt it again, and again, it should become smaller and smaller?

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with very little space for writing

paperformat

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step 2. look at your notes and move through them. what do you notice? do you see any pattern in your behaviours? -

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to transport tools (e.g. pen) within the notebook

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addons

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CONVERSATIONS ON NOTEBOOKS: describe your notebook's practice

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[ ]

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lot of layers

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start multiple notebooks at the same time

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when it's new, the content is selected +sticky notes for temporary thoughts

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other archives/papers, content is distributed everywhere

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scattered around

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use them to visualise, it's about what it's happening right now

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not attached to one tool

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PROCESS NOTES: what i would like is

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18.04.23 +I would like to create (active) makers, not consumers. The final outcome needs to be something to be used to make, not only to receive/consume. I want the users of this work to participate in the act of making notebooks against capitalism and commodity practices. I want to expand the spaces of this medium.

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: some new ideas on how to play with the structure of the notebook

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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.

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PROCESS NOTES: general rule on making notebooks

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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.

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to adapt a cardboard you already own

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thesis excerpts: the gloss and the summa

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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’.

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thesis excerpts: my aim

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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.

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metal rings

binding

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PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process

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A personal notebook process is the ever-changing process a person can go through, by analysing and keeping attention to their individual note-taking activity and their use of paper notebooks to understand themselves and their needs.

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medium size

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plain paper

paperformat

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step 6. now take paper you might have around you. or buy some. how should this paper be like? +

step 10. put everything together and start again. did you achieve your requests? can you do something different?

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to transport tools (e.g. pen) within the notebook

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PROCESS NOTES: why reusing materials?

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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.

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one

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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.

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Q: how to make a notebook that is easy to navigate?

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PROCESS NOTES: when i can't use a notebook

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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.

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strings

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binding

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very big

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paperformat

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to save/keep loose sheets

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addons

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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.

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PROCESS NOTES: why notebooks?

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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.

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NOTES FROM SESSIONS: describe your notebook's practice

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[]

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smoothest paper to prevent myself from hesitating because of no friction

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don't like to have already made cover

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notebooks from teenage years: I would neglect and let it sink

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need for personal space, use notebooks to create a personal space

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with thin paper

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paperformat

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: this publication

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03.05.23 -The final publication is selected content organised and split into little cards. This content, through a python script, get inserted into an a4 template and can be printed as a booklet. Ideally, every time, the PDF comes out differently through random choice. The content mixes only in the same row, not between rows, to avoid contradictory connections (the user will be able to move them around by themselves afterwards anyway).

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PROCESS NOTES: when i can't use a notebook

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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.

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tape

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binding

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to remember or highlight specific pages

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addons

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PROCESS NOTES: what is modularity?

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15.03.23 +see modularity: "the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined, often with the benefit of flexibility and variety in use" (Ampatzidou et al., 2020)

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thesis excerpts: the first codex

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In the Medieval period, the first codex format for manuscripts was created, replacing the papyrus, and the purpose of use shifted “from a cumbersome mnemonic aid to a readily accessible information storehouse” (Hobart and Schiffman, 2000).

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Q: How do you work with your ideas?

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Can you describe in a few words how you think your brain works like?

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one but new

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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.

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strings

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PROCESS NOTES: the past

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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.

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for a long lecture

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situation

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soft cover

binding

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dotted paper

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thesis excerpts: the origin of notebooks

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Note-taking has existed for a long time but there is not much evidence of it before the XV century (Blair, 2010, p.1). Nowadays, notebooks are mostly used for annotating for later use, but in the past, they were used to organise and classify materials (Yeo, 2008). They “were part of daily life for literate, educated individuals, (..) were prompts for material that should be stored in memory” (Yeo, 2008). Paper notebooks consisted of the work of intellectuals on parchment, to transmit oral knowledge.

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with a lot of space for writing

paperformat

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Q: how to make a notebook to experience the world?

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one

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+it occupies less space but offers bigger pages

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+the additional lateral wings allow modularity: the user can move the wings to connect with multiple pages at the same time

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+if the user forgets something the wings give more space to write

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-the fact that it's folded means it's thicker and it's difficult to write if it's too big

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to calm anxiety

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for temporary notes

situation

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the letter one

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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.

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glue bound

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sticks

binding

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thesis excerpts: the importance of making DIY notebooks

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Someone might think that inviting people to make personalised paper notebooks contributes to paper waste and does not participate in recycling values. Instead, if done properly, DIY can be the best solution to avoid waste and save money simultaneously. Not everyone needs to be active in the same way, but everyone can build up a certain consciousness when personally deciding which ‘ingredients’ to use, also from a monetary point of view.

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with space for marginalia

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paperformat

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alternative materials: do you need a cutter?

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Any knife would help with this. Obviously, the less sharp the knife, the less polished the cut will look like. In case, I would suggest to appreciate the rough cut: it shows the inside of the paper, it makes the notebook thicker and last but not least: if you are a perfectionist or someone who feels scared of ruining nice looking objects, this might help you to loosen yourself and feel more free to use your notebook. Bye bye guiltiness!

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PROCESS NOTES: the past

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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.

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not to hesitate while writing/approaching the space

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situation

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thesis excerpts: the moleskine

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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.

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one

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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.

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PROCESS NOTES: why reusing materials?

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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.

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one

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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.

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smooth paper

paperformat

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Q: How do you work with your ideas?

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Can you describe in a few words how you think your brain works like?

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for temporary notes

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situation

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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?

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PROCESS NOTES: i want to play with my notebook

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19.09.22 -I want to have more, to be able to play with my notebook, to know it better. I started to reason on how, as we’ve been creating our personal tools online, we could also create our personal analogue tools. Notebooks are individual and personal objects, but they’re treated like everyone has the same need from a piece of paper.

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NOTES FROM SESSIONS: describe your notebook's practice

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[]

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lot of layers

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start multiple notebooks at the same time

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when it's new, the content is selected -sticky notes for temporary thoughts

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other archives/papers, content is distributed everywhere

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scattered around

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use them to visualise, it's about what it's happening right now

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not attached to one tool

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PROCESS NOTES: inspirational quotes

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19.09.22 -Someone said (Brendan Howell): our collective work is having new ideas to find better alternatives to th(e ma)instream ways that shut down every imagination chance, they offer the “best” way. Do it in a different way. + "Thus, throughout, I demonstrate how a certain thread of experimental poetry has always been engaged with questioning the media by which it is made and through which it is consumed" (Emerson, L., 2014) —> the medium is the message (Mcluhan, 2013).

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PROCESS NOTES: concepts overview

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(A) Design

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-Theory of design is based on people needs

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-The purpose is providing users with hints of accessible designs and examples of easy adds-on to apply to basic notebooks

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-What if the structure of the interface could fit better our needs?

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thesis excerpts: the spatial memory

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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.

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transportable

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not to waste materials

situation

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Q: What makes a notebook a notebook?

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05.04.23 -When something gets printed, does it stop to be a notebook?

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Clara° and I discussed about the limits of the pages, how basic 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 is 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.

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no binding

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binding

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the notebook kit

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20.09.22 -I delivered to Supi° the first notebook kit: An adjustable and editable notebook with included tape and papers for continuation. The idea is that this type of notebooks allows the user to build it up easily as their needs come over and adjusting and editing while using it and not being forced to stay in a standardised area for standardised notebook users.

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with very little space for writing

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paperformat

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step 10. put everything together and start again. did you achieve your requests? can you do something different? -

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PROCESS NOTES: what i would like is

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18.04.23 -I would like to create (active) makers, not consumers. The final outcome needs to be something to be used to make, not only to receive/consume. I want the users of this work to participate in the act of making notebooks against capitalism and commodity practices. I want to expand the spaces of this medium.

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alternative materials: do you need a awl?

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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.

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one but new

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15.03.23 +1) I noticed that I made some of the folded sheets a bit wider than the 20x30 that I used before and some less and I want to see if that 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?

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PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process

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What is the starting need that brought to the creation and use of the notebook?

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This question helps to highlight the starting point and main reason for the creation of a new notebook (or modification applied). it can be described in a few words.

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thesis excerpts: making notebooks’ creation accessible

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Recycling and reusing are important in my practice. It concerns not only materials but also the purpose of making notebooks’ creation accessible: Do I have time? How can I make things faster and easier? What if someone is not skilled or has no time? Has no materials? Where can makers gather second-hand materials for cheap/free?

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Q: can you make a notebook that slows you down?

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11.10.22 -from M&Ms° "smoothest paper to prevent myself from hesitating because of no friction" = friction slows down

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NOTES FROM SESSIONS: conversations on notebooks

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alternative materials: do you need a bone folder?

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This tool helps us to fold the sheets to avoid breaking paper, especially if thick, and to be more precise. Otherwise, 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!

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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

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alternative materials: do you need a awl?

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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.

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something you have in the room you are in

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binding

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Q: what does everyone need from a notebook?

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12.10.22 -Notebooks as a lens into humans' brains: why someone needs to visualise, to organise, to reason, to focus, to extract themselves?

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Q: how to make a notebook that is easy to navigate?

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one

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18.01.2023 +I feel restricted in the moment I have to write on a flat a5 page. I feel like the content is never organised because I can write in every direction and most of the time I use visual note-taking, or note-making, especially the circular method (have starting points in the middle and then move around it), i get lost in the space because I have no interruptions or limitations.

NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: choice of paper

15.03.23 I also do not like too thin paper but not too thick. It needs to fold a bit but it cannot be something like copy or office paper so between 120gsm and 200gsm. I am not also a giant fan of coloured paper to write on but I love colors so I don't really know how to solve it. I made the cover super yellow though, so maybe that will calm myself down!

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-add more paper

-fold paper

-pay more attention when i re-organise materials

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to add content after the page is already full

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not to waste materials

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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. +

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to calm anxiety

situation

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PROCESS NOTES: what is modularity?

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15.03.23 -see modularity: "the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined, often with the benefit of flexibility and variety in use" (Ampatzidou et al., 2020)

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: some new ideas on how to play with the structure of the notebook

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30.09.22 -Recycle notebooks paper to create new notebooks: check paper making --> if i destroy the paper sheets of a notebook in water, then i make a new notebook out of it, then i melt it again, and again, it should become smaller and smaller?

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thesis excerpts: the first codex

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In the Medieval period, the first codex format for manuscripts was created, replacing the papyrus, and the purpose of use shifted “from a cumbersome mnemonic aid to a readily accessible information storehouse” (Hobart and Schiffman, 2000).

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PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process

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What are the positive sides? Does it work within the starting purpose?

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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.

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Q: What is a notebook?

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CONVERSATIONS ON NOTEBOOKS: describe your notebook's practice

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[ ]

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pocket size notebook to bring it everywhere

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used to describe an entire experience

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sticky notes for temporary thoughts

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flexible, has dots for concepts and reflexions

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squared paper

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paperformat

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: this publication

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02.05.23 +I want to make the binding "openable" because, in this way, the entire book can be taken apart and become a notebook. Or the rings can be used for something else and the prints can be moved around or used as cards, or attached on walls or anywhere. It opens up a bit the concept of book and re-connect it to a "printed" notebook. It also gives the freedom to completely tear it apart. I like the idea that a book is something "stable" and in this way this publication is more similar to a notebook. I left space for others to contribute or make their version of it.

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NOTES FROM SESSIONS: describe your notebook's practice

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Soft-cover

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anxiety from messy notebooks, don't wanna play with the notebook

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NEED line-paper, calendar and space for notes

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nice soft paper + perfect pen

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page with sticky notes to use for no-set things

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needs to be big enough

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must stay flat

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NO stream of consciousness

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YES anchor points

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what get lost when organising/moving

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thoughts from brain to written material?

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the last one

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28.03.23 -The last notebook I made for myself and that I hope will follow me until graduation, as an answer to my thoughts on the 15.03.23. Overall, I am super happy with it. The fact that it fits in the inside pocket of my jacket is just one of the amazing features this notebook is offering. I am already noticing that the different width of the pages is making a difference.

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Look for the image in the cards

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where I have written my

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"thoughts on this notebook"

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(hint: yellow cover).

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the letter one

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20.03.23 -I produced a special notebook to deliver a starter for a conversation around our projects to Kim° and Chae°. -The concept was to give each other something in form of a letter or gift, or anything we could think of, and deliver it to the others in our group. I made a sort of notebook that can be used if you need to write letters, get rid of thoughts, write fast, brainstorm for projects or writing tasks.

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very small

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step 7. is there any addition that would make your notebook even more practical? +

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Q: who do you write for?

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03.10.22 +time-specific writing [erica° said]= writing that makes sense only in the moment you wrote it.

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strips

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binding

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Q: What is your use of notebooks?

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step 6. now take paper you might have around you. or buy some. how should this paper be like? +

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CONVERSATIONS ON NOTEBOOKS

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[ ] C: I have a notebook just for a podcast

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I use lines only when I have to write everything aligned and organised

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I skim the ideas in my head first, or talking, and then I write down when I have a precise idea or keywords I am sure about.

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[ ] Sudden ideas: on her phone

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Problems/hates:

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[ ] Anxiety of blank pages

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[ ] What to do with the back side of paper I have written on? Waste of paper.

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CREATIVE SOLUTION: glue one page on the top of the other

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PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process

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What are the negative sides? What could be a different approach to solve the issue?

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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.

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to organise scattered thoughts

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situation

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PROCESS NOTES: research and starting point

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During the first semester at XPUB I used an Iperborea notebook, measurements: 10x20. I find the size amazing, but as it involves cutting paper out from an a4 sheet, I didn't want to create a new notebook out of that idea without finding a solution that would not waste anything. I thought about folding instead of cutting: it was nice to add additional notes on the side of the main sheets.

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thesis excerpts: levels of creativity

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The basic level of creativity is doing, which requires a minimum amount of interest. This happens when we use a notebook already made in the industry and bought from a shelf. The second is adapting. This action is made to personalise and change an object you already have. You could create a back pocket, or insert post-its to create more space. The third level is making. This happens when we build a notebook from scratch but we follow predetermined patterns. This action needs more time and energy. The last level is creating. Creating is making something that does not yet exist. It relies on the use of raw materials and the absence of pre-existing rules.

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lined paper

paperformat

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thesis excerpts: making notebooks’ creation accessible

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Recycling and reusing are important in my practice. It concerns not only materials but also the purpose of making notebooks’ creation accessible: Do I have time? How can I make things faster and easier? What if someone is not skilled or has no time? Has no materials? Where can makers gather second-hand materials for cheap/free?

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NOTES FROM SESSIONS: describe your notebook's practice

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I forget things so it's helpful to remember, to centralise thoughts and let space for more things

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plain sheets

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hard cover not to break them

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separate notebooks for different needs

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to let go stuff and stop thinking

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Q: What is your use of notebooks?

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one

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materials used:

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-a4 multiple types of papers (white, cream, coloured, thicker, thinner etc..)

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-a4 wrong prints

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-amazon cardboard

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to create a map of thoughts to look at all together

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situation

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the notebook kit

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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.

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PROCESS NOTES: how this process could help you

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15.03.23 +What I want to say is not necessarily that this process will make your way of writing on paper better or different, but just that it will make you feel more comfortable with the object, use it more, make more useful notes that can be re-read and used. Do you think there is something you could change that will make you use the notebook more and that will help you more in your work or projects or any life experience?

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the notebook kit

+

20.09.22 +I delivered to Supi° the first notebook kit: An adjustable and editable notebook with included tape and papers for continuation. The idea is that this type of notebooks allows the user to build it up easily as their needs come over and adjusting and editing while using it and not being forced to stay in a standardised area for standardised notebook users.

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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 and folded, 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.

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CONVERSATIONS ON NOTEBOOKS

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[ ] Notebooks are always too big or too small

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like long lines

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[ ] has different notes in different places, also digital

+

[ ] needs to be at 90 degrees

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the weird folds inspiring for drawings, not for notes because too messy

+

like envelopes and foldings

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for personal thoughts

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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

+

to share with others

situation

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: new idea for books' annotations

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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

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hard cover

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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.

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to adapt a cardboard you already own

binding

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: supi's notebooks

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29.09.23 - Supi° has started with a basic notebook, then moved to other prototypes. One that she made herself (and to which I contributed with a simple rubber band to avoid the paper from breaking), in which she's using photocopies paper (the simpler it is, the least guilty the user will feel while using it) and a 0.38 Muji pen. This type of notebook is giving Supi more space for organisation (or mess) but especially, it's creating new and unexpected connection between the content of the pages.

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Q: how to make a notebook to protect yourself from the outside?

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need for personal space

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PROCESS NOTES: concepts overview

+

(C) Learning

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-Notebooks are an individual space for learning

+

-How knowing our thinking processes helps our learning

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-Creation experience as part of the process of learning

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to have multiple notebooks in one

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addons

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to help a stream of consciousness

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situation

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Q: What is a notebook?

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thesis excerpts: levels of creativity

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The basic level of creativity is doing, which requires a minimum amount of interest. This happens when we use a notebook already made in the industry and bought from a shelf. The second is adapting. This action is made to personalise and change an object you already have. You could create a back pocket, or insert post-its to create more space. The third level is making. This happens when we build a notebook from scratch but we follow predetermined patterns. This action needs more time and energy. The last level is creating. Creating is making something that does not yet exist. It relies on the use of raw materials and the absence of pre-existing rules.

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with thick paper

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paperformat

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alternative materials: do you need a cutter?

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Any knife would help with this. Obviously, the less sharp the knife, the less polished the cut will look like. In case, I would suggest to appreciate the rough cut: it shows the inside of the paper, it makes the notebook thicker and last but not least: if you are a perfectionist or someone who feels scared of ruining nice looking objects, this might help you to loosen yourself and feel more free to use your notebook. Bye bye guiltiness!

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one but new

+

15.03.23 +I will take the last vertical notebook 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?

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thesis excerpts: the problem of notebooks

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We live in an era in which we can decide to continuously fulfil our desires, without wondering or understanding what we truly need or want. Many people buy a paper notebook because they are attracted by the idea they have of this object, of that nostalgic feeling of hand-writing. Yet, users of paper notebooks, as I discovered through multiple sessions and conversations, frequently tend not to start or complete their notebooks because they are not conscious of the possibilities this medium can offer.

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one

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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.

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PROCESS NOTES: let's think

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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.

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PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process

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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.

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step 5. look at the shape of your notebook. is it small? is it big enough? +

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step 9. fold it, or not. bind it, or not.

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to save/keep loose sheets

+

Q: what does everyone need from a notebook?

+

12.10.22 +Notebooks as a lens into humans' brains, why someone needs to visualise, to organise, to reason, to focus, to extract themselves?

+
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to add content after the page is already full

addons

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to create new connections between content

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situation

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something you have in the room you are in

+

binding

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thesis excerpts: index system

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By the middle of the XVII century, the need to produce new and unexpected knowledge through the creation of connections between content had emerged. One relevant work to mention is by Secondo Lancellotti (1583–1643): he created an index system in which he would insert “associative cross-references and pointers whenever and wherever possible, enabling the reader to surf through” all these annotations, “replacing reading with a type of early modern hypertext” (Cevolini, 2020).

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thesis excerpts: the value of making

As Gibson (2019) argues, making, and learning through making, provide “us with the opportunity to control the narrative of ourselves in a way that off the shelf consumption does not (..): it is an act of subversion”. What we produce with our hands suddenly becomes part of the representation of the world around us, and it includes our vision and our active participation in it.

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step 1. take your current notebook. look at it, open it. where do you write? what do you write? -

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with thick paper

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paperformat

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thesis excerpts: my aim

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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.

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thesis excerpts: how note-taking affects learning

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There are two ways in which the act of note-taking can affect learning: “The encoding hypothesis suggests that the processing that occurs during the act of note-taking improves learning and retention. The external storage hypothesis touts the benefits of the ability to review material” (Mueller and Oppenheimer, 2014).

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horizontal

+

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

+
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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

+

spiral

+

binding

+

step 5. look at the shape of your notebook. is it small? is it big enough? +

+

rough paper

paperformat

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NOTES FROM SESSIONS: conversations on notebooks

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[ ] Important thoughts and sketches

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C: I use it less than before

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E: Do you know why?

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C: What if i draw something and it's not nice? After I have drawn it then I have to keep it there, inside my notebook and the notebook is ruined with bad drawings.

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C: I compare the pages to see if they are all beautiful.

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: this publication

-

02.05.23 -I want to make the binding "openable" because, in this way, the entire book can be taken apart and become a notebook. Or just be taken apart and the rings can be used for something else and the prints can be moved around or used as cards, or attached on walls or anywhere. It opens up a bit the concept of book and re-connect it to a printed notebook. It also gives the freedom to completely tear it apart. I like the idea that a book is something "stable" and in this way this publication is more similar to a notebook. I tried to leave space to others to contribute or make their own version of it.

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to create space for temporary thoughts

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addons

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NOTES FROM SESSIONS: conversations on notebooks

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[ ] crave for the format of a book -need to be compact and stable -if narrows help writing, so like columns and foldings

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[ ] like to play around -how to combine together? rip off bad pages to recombination them -paper didn't allow flexibility

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for fast notes

+

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

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for personal thoughts

situation

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thread bound

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binding

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PROCESS NOTES: concepts overview

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(C) Learning

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-Notebooks are an individual space for learning

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-How knowing our thinking processes helps our learning

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-Creation experience as part of the process of learning

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PROCESS NOTES: what is experimenting?

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the last one

+

28.03.23 +The last notebook I made for myself and that I hope will follow me until graduation, as an answer to my thoughts on the 15.03.23. Overall, I am super happy with it. The fact that it fits in the inside pocket of my jacket is just one of the amazing features this notebook is offering. I am already noticing that the different width of the pages is making a difference.

+

Look for the image in the cards

+

where I have written my

+

"thoughts on this notebook"

+

(hint: yellow cover).

+

NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the letter one

+

20.03.23 +I produced a special notebook to deliver a starter for a conversation around our projects to Kim° and Chae°. +The concept was to give each other something in form of a letter or gift, or anything we could think of, and deliver it to the others in our group. I made a sort of notebook that can be used if you need to write letters, get rid of thoughts, write fast, brainstorm for projects or writing tasks.

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very small

+

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PROCESS NOTES: inspirational quotes

19.09.22 -Experimenting is sometimes an hyperbole and exacerbating a concept. It also means being able to create a notebook that is no longer functional but concretely describes the meaning of the desire or need.

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PROCESS NOTES: concepts overview

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(A) Design

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-Theory of design is based on people needs

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-The purpose is providing users with hints of accessible designs and examples of easy adds-on to apply to basic notebooks

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-What if the structure of the interface could fit better our needs?

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+Someone said (Brendan Howell): our collective work is having new ideas to find better alternatives to th(e ma)instream ways that shut down every imagination chance, they offer the “best” way. Do it in a different way. + "Thus, throughout, I demonstrate how a certain thread of experimental poetry has always been engaged with questioning the media by which it is made and through which it is consumed" (Emerson, L., 2014) —> the medium is the message (Mcluhan, 2013).

@@ -798,4 +795,3 @@ Experimenting is sometimes an hyperbole and exacerbating a concept. It also mean - \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/script.py b/script.py index dbd4c8d..9cc4bab 100644 --- a/script.py +++ b/script.py @@ -54,8 +54,18 @@ for folder in materials: #print(card) # the print of all the md files cards[folder][card_folder].append(card) elif my_file.endswith(('.jpg', '.jpeg', '.png')): - image_html = f'{my_file}' - cards[folder][card_folder].append(image_html) + if 'prototype_' in my_file: + my_file= my_file.replace('.jpg', '').replace('.jpeg', '').replace('.png', '').replace('prototype_', '').replace('_', ' ') + image_html = f'{my_file}' + f"
{my_file}
" + + else: + image_html = f'{my_file}' + mycard = f'
{image_html}
' + cards[folder][card_folder].append(mycard) + #print(my_file) + + + #print(card_folder) #print(file_path) @@ -143,6 +153,6 @@ html_template = f''' ''' #print(html_template) - -with open('notebooks.html', 'w') as out: - out.write(html_template) +for i in range(10): + with open(f'notebooks{i}.html', 'w') as out: + out.write(html_template) diff --git a/script_or.py b/script_or.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fbb9e2c --- /dev/null +++ b/script_or.py @@ -0,0 +1,149 @@ +import os +import markdown +from random import choice + +# Get the directory path of the script +script_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) + +materials = ['1_situation', '2_binding', '3_paperformat', '4_add_ons'] + +cards = { + '1_situation' : { + 'content' : [], + 'make-a-notebook-that' : [] + + }, + + '2_binding' : { + 'content' : [], + 'make-a-notebook-that' : [] + }, + + '3_paperformat' : { + 'content' : [], + 'make-a-notebook-that' : [] + }, + + '4_add_ons' : { + 'content' : [], + 'make-a-notebook-that' : [] + } + +} + +for folder in materials: + material_folder_path = os.path.join(script_dir, folder) + card_folders = os.listdir(material_folder_path) + #print(material_folder_path) + for card_folder in card_folders: + card_folder_path = os.path.join(material_folder_path, card_folder) + #print(card_folder_path) #these are content and make a notebook that folders paths + my_files = os.listdir(card_folder_path) + #print(my_files) + for my_file in my_files: + file_path = os.path.join(card_folder_path, my_file) + relative_file_path = os.path.relpath(file_path, os.path.dirname(__file__)) + #image_path = + #print(file_path) + #print(relative_file_path) + + if my_file.endswith(('.md', '.markdown')): + with open(file_path, 'r') as file: + md = file.read() + card = markdown.markdown(md) + #print(card) # the print of all the md files + cards[folder][card_folder].append(card) + elif my_file.endswith(('.jpg', '.jpeg', '.png')): + image_html = f'{my_file}' + cards[folder][card_folder].append(image_html) + + +#print(card_folder) +#print(file_path) + + +number_pages = 32 +pages = [] + + +for page in range(number_pages): + + + card_1= choice(cards["1_situation"]["content"]) + cards["1_situation"]["content"].remove(card_1) + card_2= choice(cards["1_situation"]["make-a-notebook-that"]) + cards["1_situation"]["make-a-notebook-that"].remove(card_2) + + card_3= choice(cards["2_binding"]["content"]) + cards["2_binding"]["content"].remove(card_3) + card_4= choice(cards["2_binding"]["make-a-notebook-that"]) + cards["2_binding"]["make-a-notebook-that"].remove(card_4) + + card_5= choice(cards["3_paperformat"]["content"]) + cards["3_paperformat"]["content"].remove(card_5) + card_6= choice(cards["3_paperformat"]["make-a-notebook-that"]) + cards["3_paperformat"]["make-a-notebook-that"].remove(card_6) + + card_7= choice(cards["4_add_ons"]["content"]) + cards["4_add_ons"]["content"].remove(card_7) + card_8= choice(cards["4_add_ons"]["make-a-notebook-that"]) + cards["4_add_ons"]["make-a-notebook-that"].remove(card_8) + + + + page_html = f''' + +
+
{card_1}
+
{card_2}
+
{card_3}
+
{card_4}
+
{card_5}
+
{card_6}
+
{card_7}
+
{card_8}
+
+ + + ''' + + pages.append(page_html) + #print(page_html) + + +#print(pages) +pages_string = "\n".join(pages) + +html_template = f''' + + + + + + Document + + + + + + + + + + + + +{pages_string} + + + + +''' + +#print(html_template) +with open('notebooks.html', 'w') as out: + out.write(html_template) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/style.css b/style.css index df9944f..575dc1b 100644 --- a/style.css +++ b/style.css @@ -141,7 +141,16 @@ img { width: 100%;; height: 100%; object-fit: cover; + float: left; + height: auto; + max-width: 100%; + +} +.image_titles { + position: absolute; + width: 105mm; + text-align: center; } .game{ @@ -188,6 +197,7 @@ img { .page{ border: 1px solid #9594c4; margin-bottom: 5px; + }