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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! +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! diff --git a/1_situation/content/modular.jpg b/1_situation/content/modular.jpg index afb7996..73008f1 100644 Binary files a/1_situation/content/modular.jpg and b/1_situation/content/modular.jpg differ diff --git a/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_10.md b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_10.md index 2a9e8a8..1e489cd 100644 --- a/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_10.md +++ b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_10.md @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ #### 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/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_2.md b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_2.md index b9ac852..6e811ef 100644 --- a/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_2.md +++ b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_2.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ #### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one materials used: -a4 multiple types of papers (white, cream, coloured, thicker, thinner etc..) +-a4 multiple types of papers (white, cream, coloured, thicker, thinner etc..) -a4 wrong prints +-a4 wrong prints -amazon cardboard \ No newline at end of file +-amazon cardboard \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_4.md b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_4.md index 7ac3140..5692a76 100644 --- a/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_4.md +++ b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_4.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ #### 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. +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. diff --git a/1_situation/content/notesfrompellebyme_pages-to-jpg-0007.jpg b/1_situation/content/notesfrompellebyme_pages-to-jpg-0007.jpg index 818b718..f4baaf4 100644 Binary files a/1_situation/content/notesfrompellebyme_pages-to-jpg-0007.jpg and b/1_situation/content/notesfrompellebyme_pages-to-jpg-0007.jpg differ diff --git a/1_situation/content/notesonfinalproject.jpg b/1_situation/content/notesonfinalproject.jpg index e61e606..e7aa6d1 100644 Binary files a/1_situation/content/notesonfinalproject.jpg and b/1_situation/content/notesonfinalproject.jpg differ diff --git a/1_situation/content/paper selection.jpeg b/1_situation/content/paper selection.jpeg index c5ae8a7..6fc1977 100644 Binary files a/1_situation/content/paper selection.jpeg and b/1_situation/content/paper selection.jpeg differ diff --git a/1_situation/content/processnotes_1.md b/1_situation/content/processnotes_1.md index 871b870..ba21797 100644 --- a/1_situation/content/processnotes_1.md +++ b/1_situation/content/processnotes_1.md @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ #### 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 +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/content/processnotes_16.md b/1_situation/content/processnotes_16.md index 117389d..509bd66 100644 --- a/1_situation/content/processnotes_16.md +++ b/1_situation/content/processnotes_16.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ #### 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 +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/content/processnotes_6.md b/1_situation/content/processnotes_6.md index 42d435c..f96818e 100644 --- a/1_situation/content/processnotes_6.md +++ b/1_situation/content/processnotes_6.md @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ #### 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. + +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/content/questions_17.md b/1_situation/content/questions_17.md index f4fbedf..ddcb698 100644 --- a/1_situation/content/questions_17.md +++ b/1_situation/content/questions_17.md @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ #### 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 +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/1_situation/content/questions_2.md b/1_situation/content/questions_2.md index 5080a5f..ba67564 100644 --- a/1_situation/content/questions_2.md +++ b/1_situation/content/questions_2.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ #### 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 +from M&Ms° "smoothest paper to prevent myself from hesitating because of no friction" = friction slows down \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/content/reuserecycle-activities.jpg b/1_situation/content/reuserecycle-activities.jpg index 56f385d..4a17535 100644 Binary files a/1_situation/content/reuserecycle-activities.jpg and b/1_situation/content/reuserecycle-activities.jpg differ diff --git a/1_situation/content/sessionsnotes_10.md b/1_situation/content/sessionsnotes_10.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2c1fd72 --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/content/sessionsnotes_10.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +#### NOTES FROM SESSIONS: 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/1_situation/content/thesis_14.md b/1_situation/content/thesis_14.md index 0a2a7d8..fd72d13 100644 --- a/1_situation/content/thesis_14.md +++ b/1_situation/content/thesis_14.md @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ ## thesis excerpts: the spatial memory -A process takes place when we take notes and the type of interface we use to do it makes a difference: “The hippocampus is crucially involved not only in memory encoding and retrieval processes but also in spatial memory itself” (Umejima et al., 2021). (..) Throughout my research, I discovered how much it is important, for recovery and reviewing reasons, where I specifically write words or sentences. Recently, 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. \ No newline at end of file +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. 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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? +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? diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_15.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_15.md index d97cb43..98c0fd7 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_15.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_15.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: why notebooks? +#### PROCESS NOTES: why reusing materials? 22.09.22 -I started to make recycled notebooks during my bachelor's already, in that case it was mostly 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 +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_22.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_22.md index fb870ca..8399811 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_22.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_22.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ #### PROCESS NOTES: let's think -18.04.23 +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/questions copy 3.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/questions copy 3.md deleted file mode 100644 index db6542b..0000000 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/questions copy 3.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -

Have you ever intentionally thrown away a notebook? -

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step 8. should the cover be hard or soft? can you re-use a cardboard you already have? do you have an old cardboard from? +

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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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 +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/content/bindings (4).jpg b/2_binding/content/bindings (4).jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c54d20 Binary files /dev/null and b/2_binding/content/bindings (4).jpg differ diff --git a/2_binding/content/mitsa.jpg b/2_binding/content/mitsa.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d15fd0b Binary files /dev/null and b/2_binding/content/mitsa.jpg differ diff --git a/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_20.md b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_20.md index b9a714f..f25da84 100644 --- a/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_20.md +++ b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_20.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ #### 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 +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_5.md b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_5.md index 6c4b8cb..b5dcbc6 100644 --- a/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_5.md +++ b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_5.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ #### 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 +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*. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_7.md b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_7.md index fe026b8..5a1c116 100644 --- a/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_7.md +++ b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_7.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ #### 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. +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_8.md b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_8.md index d20e460..0e95b45 100644 --- a/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_8.md +++ b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_8.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ #### 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 +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 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/content/processnotes_14.md b/2_binding/content/processnotes_14.md index becf64b..e07deac 100644 --- a/2_binding/content/processnotes_14.md +++ b/2_binding/content/processnotes_14.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ #### 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 +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/content/processnotes_2.md b/2_binding/content/processnotes_2.md deleted file mode 100644 index fa74b82..0000000 --- a/2_binding/content/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/2_binding/content/processnotes_5.md b/2_binding/content/processnotes_5.md index dbba9fc..fbee945 100644 --- a/2_binding/content/processnotes_5.md +++ b/2_binding/content/processnotes_5.md @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ #### 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. + +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/2_binding/content/questions_16.md b/2_binding/content/questions_16.md index 16d8eb6..0c515d1 100644 --- a/2_binding/content/questions_16.md +++ b/2_binding/content/questions_16.md @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ #### 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 + +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/content/sessionsnotes_1.md b/2_binding/content/sessionsnotes_1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9190771 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/content/sessionsnotes_1.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +#### NOTES FROM SESSIONS: 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/2_binding/content/thesis_10.md b/2_binding/content/thesis_10.md index 3e20d45..1110b76 100644 --- a/2_binding/content/thesis_10.md +++ b/2_binding/content/thesis_10.md @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ ## 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 +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/_DSC0035.jpg b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/_DSC0035.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d9df028 Binary files /dev/null and b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/_DSC0035.jpg differ diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/miriam-miard-4.jpg b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/miriam-miard-4.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..61b2e65 Binary files /dev/null and b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/miriam-miard-4.jpg differ diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_22.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_22.md index 17fb3f1..06c7f16 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_22.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_22.md @@ -1,8 +1,11 @@ #### 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). + +*Look for the image in the cards* + +*where I have written my* + +*"thoughts on this notebook"* + +*(hint: yellow cover).* diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_10.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_10.md index aac74bf..a7ab201 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_10.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_10.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: how this process could help you +#### PROCESS NOTES: what is modularity? 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 +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) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_2.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6bbc966 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_2.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: research and starting point +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. diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_9.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_9.md index 24f2579..3142af2 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_9.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_9.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ #### 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 +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? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_2.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..da3d7d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_2.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +#### NOTES FROM SESSIONS: 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/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/showing_prototype.jpeg b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/showing_prototype.jpeg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1682bb6 Binary files /dev/null and b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/showing_prototype.jpeg differ diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/3 (17).jpg b/3_paperformat/content/3 (17).jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f2ab341 Binary files /dev/null and b/3_paperformat/content/3 (17).jpg differ diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/_DSC0009.jpg b/3_paperformat/content/_DSC0009.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2fbfe00 Binary files /dev/null and b/3_paperformat/content/_DSC0009.jpg differ diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/altmaterials_cutmat.md b/3_paperformat/content/altmaterials_cutmat.md index 0d80026..efbe5de 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 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. +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. diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/metalring6.jpg b/3_paperformat/content/metalring6.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index 2b42c53..0000000 Binary files a/3_paperformat/content/metalring6.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/miri_notebook.jpeg b/3_paperformat/content/miri_notebook.jpeg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b894ae8 Binary files /dev/null and b/3_paperformat/content/miri_notebook.jpeg differ diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_19.md b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_19.md index 802ffd2..a23964d 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_19.md +++ b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_19.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ #### 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). +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_23.md b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_23.md index 4f0c730..3a1d974 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_23.md +++ b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_23.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ #### 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 +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_3.md b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_3.md index b1f37e3..99fc6d9 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_3.md +++ b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_3.md @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ #### 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. +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/3_paperformat/content/notesfrompellebysteve.png b/3_paperformat/content/notesfrompellebysteve.png deleted file mode 100644 index 0e55aad..0000000 Binary files a/3_paperformat/content/notesfrompellebysteve.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/processnotes_20.md b/3_paperformat/content/processnotes_20.md index 6876b76..4c51812 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/content/processnotes_20.md +++ b/3_paperformat/content/processnotes_20.md @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: some reasons for this project to exist +#### PROCESS NOTES: concepts overview (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 + +-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/3_paperformat/content/questions_3.md b/3_paperformat/content/questions_3.md index 13677b0..8e233dd 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/content/questions_3.md +++ b/3_paperformat/content/questions_3.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ #### 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 +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/3_paperformat/content/sessionsnotes_3.md b/3_paperformat/content/sessionsnotes_3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f03064a --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/content/sessionsnotes_3.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +#### NOTES FROM SESSIONS: 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/3_paperformat/content/sessionsnotes_4.md b/3_paperformat/content/sessionsnotes_4.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..67a4d82 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/content/sessionsnotes_4.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +#### NOTES FROM SESSIONS: 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/3_paperformat/content/thesis_18.md b/3_paperformat/content/thesis_18.md index 9955b68..828a81a 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/content/thesis_18.md +++ b/3_paperformat/content/thesis_18.md @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ ## thesis excerpts: levels of creativity -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. For example, you could make little additions to it, like a back pocket, 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 +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/unfolding_prototype.jpeg b/3_paperformat/content/unfolding_prototype.jpeg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d98f775 Binary files /dev/null and b/3_paperformat/content/unfolding_prototype.jpeg differ diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/3 (9).jpg b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/3 (9).jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e3c188 Binary files /dev/null and b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/3 (9).jpg differ diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/bindings (2).jpg b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/bindings (2).jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9afb8fa Binary files /dev/null and b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/bindings (2).jpg differ diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/makeyourtool11 (9).jpg b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/makeyourtool11 (9).jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9744442 Binary files /dev/null and b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/makeyourtool11 (9).jpg differ diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_24.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_24.md index dba109b..a4e973b 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_24.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_24.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ #### 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 + 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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_13.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_13.md index 8468dde..414a3a0 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_13.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_13.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ #### 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 +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_5.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_5.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6d1f7c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_5.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +#### NOTES FROM SESSIONS: 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/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_7.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_7.md index 1ed7d92..923cc06 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_7.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_7.md @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ ## 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 +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). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/1 (7).jpg b/4_add_ons/content/1 (7).jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2b094e0 Binary files /dev/null and b/4_add_ons/content/1 (7).jpg differ diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/1 (9).jpg b/4_add_ons/content/1 (9).jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2b07d20 Binary files /dev/null and b/4_add_ons/content/1 (9).jpg differ diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/3 (6).jpg b/4_add_ons/content/3 (6).jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a1a36e5 Binary files /dev/null and b/4_add_ons/content/3 (6).jpg differ diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/IMG_3201 (2).jpg b/4_add_ons/content/IMG_3201 (2).jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3fac718 Binary files /dev/null and b/4_add_ons/content/IMG_3201 (2).jpg differ diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/altmaterials_cutter.md b/4_add_ons/content/altmaterials_cutter.md index a99c989..9e0b076 100644 --- a/4_add_ons/content/altmaterials_cutter.md +++ b/4_add_ons/content/altmaterials_cutter.md @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ ### 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! +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! diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/notes_on_prototypes_12.md b/4_add_ons/content/notes_on_prototypes_12.md index 2e243bb..408911f 100644 --- a/4_add_ons/content/notes_on_prototypes_12.md +++ b/4_add_ons/content/notes_on_prototypes_12.md @@ -1,7 +1,11 @@ #### 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/4_add_ons/content/overview-project (2).jpg b/4_add_ons/content/overview-project (2).jpg deleted file mode 100644 index 9e83ff2..0000000 Binary files a/4_add_ons/content/overview-project (2).jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/processnotes_18.md b/4_add_ons/content/processnotes_18.md index 40e0e94..3aaea40 100644 --- a/4_add_ons/content/processnotes_18.md +++ b/4_add_ons/content/processnotes_18.md @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: some reasons for this project to exist +#### PROCESS NOTES: concepts overview (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? + +-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/4_add_ons/content/processnotes_4.md b/4_add_ons/content/processnotes_4.md index 84d516b..4c2cc89 100644 --- a/4_add_ons/content/processnotes_4.md +++ b/4_add_ons/content/processnotes_4.md @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ #### 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/4_add_ons/content/questions_11.md b/4_add_ons/content/questions_11.md index 4cdb2e2..63546dd 100644 --- a/4_add_ons/content/questions_11.md +++ b/4_add_ons/content/questions_11.md @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ #### 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 +Can you describe in a few words how you think your brain works like? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/sessionsnotes_6.md b/4_add_ons/content/sessionsnotes_6.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..99ca67a --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/content/sessionsnotes_6.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +#### NOTES FROM SESSIONS: 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 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/sessionsnotes_7.md b/4_add_ons/content/sessionsnotes_7.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9cdaeff --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/content/sessionsnotes_7.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +#### NOTES FROM SESSIONS: 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/4_add_ons/content/thesis_13.md b/4_add_ons/content/thesis_13.md deleted file mode 100644 index ecb34e2..0000000 --- a/4_add_ons/content/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/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/1 (3).jpg b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/1 (3).jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04e8019 Binary files /dev/null and b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/1 (3).jpg differ diff --git a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/Image-9.jpg b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/Image-9.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..809ad74 Binary files /dev/null and b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/Image-9.jpg differ diff --git a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/bindings (3).jpg b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/bindings (3).jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ed115ba Binary files /dev/null and b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/bindings (3).jpg differ diff --git a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_13.md b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_13.md index 84f6739..ab3213b 100644 --- a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_13.md +++ b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_13.md @@ -6,4 +6,6 @@ I made some modifications to the metal ring notebook: -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 +-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/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_25.md b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_25.md index e007034..dddef88 100644 --- a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_25.md +++ b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_25.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ #### 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 added notes on and leave space to others to contribute or make their own version of it. \ No newline at end of file +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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/notesfrompellebyme_pages-to-jpg-0009.jpg b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/notesfrompellebyme_pages-to-jpg-0009.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index ee79c06..0000000 Binary files a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/notesfrompellebyme_pages-to-jpg-0009.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_12.md b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_12.md index 7f8a0d2..4b59304 100644 --- a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_12.md +++ b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_12.md @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ #### 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 +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). + diff --git a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_19.md b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_19.md index f112f85..f1595a8 100644 --- a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_19.md +++ b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_19.md @@ -1,6 +1,10 @@ -#### PROCESS NOTES: some reasons for this project to exist +#### PROCESS NOTES: concepts overview (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 + +-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/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_21.md b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_21.md similarity index 100% rename from 2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_21.md rename to 4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_21.md diff --git a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_8.md b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_8.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a248a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_8.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +#### NOTES FROM SESSIONS: 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: + +[ ] 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/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_9.md b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_9.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5d33e46 --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/sessionsnotes_9.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +#### NOTES FROM SESSIONS: 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/fromces/sessionsnotes_1.md b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f9f7c02 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_1.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +## 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee7009e --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_10.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +## 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5460c3d --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_11.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +## 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec57663 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_2.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +## 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..94b849a --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_3.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +## 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee2b48d --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_4.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +## 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ea4c938 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_5.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +## 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..07f71bc --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_6.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +## 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e6a105c --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_7.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +## 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c715303 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_8.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +## 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..07554ee --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/fromces/sessionsnotes_9.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +## 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/icons/icon_1.png b/icons/icon_1.png index c736c7e..dc0a11b 100644 Binary files a/icons/icon_1.png and b/icons/icon_1.png differ diff --git a/icons/icon_2.png b/icons/icon_2.png index 1fe57ab..4a31ada 100644 Binary files a/icons/icon_2.png and b/icons/icon_2.png differ diff --git a/icons/icon_3.png b/icons/icon_3.png index 8092680..d834cee 100644 Binary files a/icons/icon_3.png and b/icons/icon_3.png differ diff --git a/icons/icon_4.png b/icons/icon_4.png index 7afb19a..122b702 100644 Binary files a/icons/icon_4.png and b/icons/icon_4.png differ diff --git a/notebooks.html b/notebooks.html index 044b4fd..5a10f76 100644 --- a/notebooks.html +++ b/notebooks.html @@ -24,20 +24,29 @@
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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.

+

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.

+

to create a map of thoughts to look at all together

+

situation

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spiral

+

binding

alternative materials: do you need a cutting mat?

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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.

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plain paper

+

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.

+

rough paper

paperformat

-

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

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+

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.

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to have multiple notebooks in one

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addons

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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? -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.

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to help a stream of consciousness

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to describe one experience

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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tape

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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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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 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.

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vertical shape

+

paperformat

+

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.

+

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?

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to organise scattered thoughts

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to forget things

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).

-

strings

+

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

+

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

+

rubber band

binding

create-new-connections.jpg
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very big

-

paperformat

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inuse.jpg
+

NOTES FROM SESSIONS: 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

+
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NOTES FROM SESSIONS: conversations on notebooks

+

[ ] Notebooks are always too big or too small

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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

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like envelopes and foldings

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to share with others

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situation

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rubber band

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Q: who do you write for?

+

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

+

NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the notebook kit

+

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

+

soft cover

binding

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with very little space for writing

-

paperformat

-

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

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+

NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: supi's notebooks

+

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.

+

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 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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Q: What is a notebook?

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PROCESS NOTES: some reasons for this project to exist

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(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

+
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to remember things

+

situation

+
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metal rings

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binding

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

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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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not to waste materials

-

situation

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PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process

-

What are the positive sides? Does it work within the starting purpose? -This is to understand if the solutions that have been found and applied to the new notebook are valid and working. this is important mostly not to lose track of the reasons underneath the concept and to evaluate how much the modifications worked.

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thread bound

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binding

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Q: What is your use of notebooks?

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

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need for personal space

+

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. +

+

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 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).

+

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.

+

very big

+

paperformat

+
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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?

+

-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?

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PROCESS NOTES: the past

-

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

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for fast notes

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situation

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step 8. should the cover be hard or soft? can you re-use a cardboard you already have? do you have an old cardboard from? -

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PROCESS NOTES: how this process could help you

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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?

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with thin paper

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+

thesis excerpts: the gloss and the summa

+

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

+
act-of-making-2.jpg
+

strips

+

binding

+
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+

plain paper

paperformat

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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.

-
recycling-shops.jpg
+
to-calm-anxiety.jpg
+

to separate content in different sections

+

addons

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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!

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to forget things

-

situation

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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 sum-up window/space

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hard cover

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binding

-

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.

-

with thick paper

+

Q: how to make a notebook that can travel?

+

notebook-crossing?

+

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)

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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?

+

with space for marginalia

paperformat

-
act-of-making.jpg
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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

+
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Q: How do you write?

+

(directions, space in the nb..)

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thesis excerpts: notebook as subversion

-

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

-

not to hesitate while writing/approaching the space

+

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?).

+

for a long lecture

situation

-

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.

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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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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).

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metalring5.jpg
+

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

+

need for new inputs out of the mess

+
3 (21).jpg
+
3 (31).jpg
+

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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PROCESS NOTES: concepts overview

+

(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?

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

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Have you ever intentionally thrown away a notebook? -

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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).

-
metalring6.jpg
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medium size

-

paperformat

-
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to keep the notebook closed while transporting it

+

NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one

+

materials used:

+

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

+

-a4 wrong prints

+

-amazon cardboard

+
bindings (1).jpg
+

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? +

+

sticks

+

binding

+

NOTES FROM SESSIONS: 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

+
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to create space for temporary thoughts

addons

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one

+

alternative materials: do you need a bone folder?

+

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!

+

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

+
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PROCESS NOTES: how this process could help you

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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for personal thoughts

-

situation

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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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glue bound

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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?

-

lined paper

+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

paperformat

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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)

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for a long lecture

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situation

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to adapt a cardboard you already own

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binding

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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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PROCESS NOTES: what is experimenting?

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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.

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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?

+

to keep the notebook closed while transporting it

+

addons

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to create new connections between content

+

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.

+

to organise scattered thoughts

situation

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no binding

-

binding

-

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

-

vertical shape

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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).

+

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.

+

squared paper

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? +

+

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

+

addons

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reuserecycle-activities.jpg
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to describe one experience

-

situation

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.

-

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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with a lot of space for writing

+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.

+

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.

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to adapt a cardboard you already own

+

binding

+

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.

+

medium size

paperformat

-

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.

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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?

+

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

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Q: how to make a notebook that can travel?

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notebook-crossing?

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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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strips

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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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to remember or highlight specific pages

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addons

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PROCESS NOTES: why reusing materials?

+

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

+

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.

+

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

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one

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

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+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?

+

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.

+

NOTES FROM SESSIONS: describe your notebook's practice

+

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+

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

+
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with thin paper

+

paperformat

+

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).

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PROCESS NOTES: when i can't use a notebook

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

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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!

-

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!

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+

tape

+

binding

+
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to remember or highlight specific pages

+

addons

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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

-

for temporary notes

-

situation

-

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.

-

sticks

-

binding

-

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

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

-

smooth paper

+
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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.

+

strings

+

binding

+
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+

dotted paper

paperformat

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Q: How do you write?

-

(directions, space in the nb..)

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

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

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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 (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.

-

soft cover

+

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

+

to calm anxiety

+

situation

+

NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the letter one

+

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

+

glue bound

binding

-

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.

-

squared paper

-

paperformat

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+

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.

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thesis excerpts: the spatial memory

-

A process takes place when we take notes and the type of interface we use to do it makes a difference: “The hippocampus is crucially involved not only in memory encoding and retrieval processes but also in spatial memory itself” (Umejima et al., 2021). (..) Throughout my research, I discovered how much it is important, for recovery and reviewing reasons, where I specifically write words or sentences. Recently, 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.

-

to remember things

+

PROCESS NOTES: the past

+

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

+

not to hesitate while writing/approaching the space

situation

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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 -here I have written my -"thoughts on this notebook" -(hint: yellow cover).

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with space for marginalia

+

thesis excerpts: the moleskine

+

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

+
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+
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+

smooth paper

paperformat

-
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to save/keep loose sheets

-

addons

+

Q: How do you work with your ideas?

+

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

-

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?

-

to calm anxiety

+
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for temporary notes

situation

-
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-

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

-

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.

-

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.

-

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).

-

to separate content in different sections

-

addons

+

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

+

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.

+

NOTES FROM SESSIONS: 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

+

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" (Emerson, L., 2014) —> the medium is the message (Mcluhan, 2013).

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thesis excerpts: the spatial memory

+

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

transportable

situation

-

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.

-

something you have in the room you are in

+

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 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 binding

binding

-
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-

rough paper

+

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.

+

with very little space for writing

paperformat

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

-

to create space for temporary thoughts

-

addons

+

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.

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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 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.

-

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.

-

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.

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thesis excerpts: levels of creativity

-

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. For example, you could make little additions to it, like a back pocket, 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.

-

very small

-

paperformat

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-

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

+

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

+

NOTES FROM SESSIONS: 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

+

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. A solution is creating your own tool, by attaching or glueing a needle inside anything that you can hold with one hand.

+

something you have in the room you are in

+

binding

+

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?

+

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!

+

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

+

to add content after the page is already full

addons

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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. -

-

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’.

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not to waste materials

+

situation

+
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PROCESS NOTES: what is modularity?

+

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)

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?

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Q: How do you work with your ideas?

-

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

-

to add content after the page is already full

-

addons

+

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).

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Q: How to transform anxieties into notebooks' features?

-

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

-

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.

-

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.

-

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)

-

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).

-

dotted paper

+
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+
19_04_23_scroll.jpg
+

NOTES FROM SESSIONS: 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

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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

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 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 create a flow of thoughts to look at all at the same time

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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

+

Q: What is your use of notebooks?

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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 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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for personal thoughts

situation

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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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spiral

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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

binding

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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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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.

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PROCESS NOTES: some reasons for this project to exist

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(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?

+ 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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to help a stream of consciousness

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situation

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Q: What is a notebook?

+

thesis excerpts: levels of creativity

+

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 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.

+

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?

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

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to save/keep loose sheets

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addons

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to create new connections between content

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situation

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thesis excerpts: the value of making

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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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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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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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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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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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to have multiple notebooks in one

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addons

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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

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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 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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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

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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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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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