diff --git a/1_situation/content/altmaterials.md b/1_situation/content/altmaterials.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8f1d18f..0000000 --- a/1_situation/content/altmaterials.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -### alternative materials: how to fold, cut, bind and make holes when you have nothing. -

you do not have any of the materials or tools they always advertise as 'essential' if you want to make your own notebooks? - Let's see what you can use that you already have at home, without the need to spend money or loose the interest because you need too much stuff... let's see. -

\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/altmaterials copy.md b/1_situation/content/altmaterials_bone.md similarity index 93% rename from 4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/altmaterials copy.md rename to 1_situation/content/altmaterials_bone.md index 81d4295..62f8805 100644 --- a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/altmaterials copy.md +++ b/1_situation/content/altmaterials_bone.md @@ -1,5 +1,2 @@ ### 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! -

\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/content/howtoreuse3.md b/1_situation/content/howtoreuse3.md deleted file mode 100644 index 9841b44..0000000 --- a/1_situation/content/howtoreuse3.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -#### [°°°] -### how to make a notebook with recycled reused restored materials? -

FACT: Paper sheets follow national or international regulations. For example, the typical A4 used for office prints, is part of the international system ISO 216. This is also important to consider when you are making a notebook. If you decide to go for a unusual shape that does not fit in an already existing size, you'll need to think about what to do with the leftovers of your cut. There are many ways to solve this problem but the main is prevent it before you need to solve it. Could you make the same notebook you had in mind but in some way be able not to cut the paper? I love folds. If you really can't, try to cut a size that could be reused for something else. Make a super vertical notebook for fast thoughts or for grocery lists.

- -#### [°°°] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_1.md b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3174863 --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_1.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one ++it occupies less space but offers bigger pages + ++the additional lateral wings allow modularity: the user can move the wings to connect with multiple pages at the same time + ++if the user forgets something the wings give more space to write + +-the fact that it's folded means it's thicker and it's difficult to write if it's too big \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_10.md b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_10.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2a9e8a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_10.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +#### 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_15.md b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_15.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..047cc54 --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_15.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one +15.03.23 +Yesterday I discovered I hate writing on vertical large notebooks. I always start making lists and it's never visual and I hate it because I get super lost and also in conversation/brainstorming notes there is no structure at all and I feel uncomfortable because I am not sure I can trust my own notes. In addition, metal rings don't work for me. I am too messy, I have texts everywhere, I cannot track the last thing I wrote, I need to go in order. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_16.md b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_16.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b54e5d --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_16.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one but new +15.03.23 +I will take *the last vertical notebook* I made in december and rip it apart. I will 1) change the cover, it was too hard and felt very difficult to open and use. 2) add the pockets as they have been very useful. 3) get rid of one of the signatures as I had to make it smaller. 4) I made some of the folded sheets a bit wider and some less and I want to see if that cm more I have will influence how I feel. As with the wide sheets I am having problems, how much do I have to reduce it to make it the perfect width? diff --git a/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_2.md b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b9ac852 --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_2.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one +materials used: + +a4 multiple types of papers (white, cream, coloured, thicker, thinner etc..) + +a4 wrong prints + +amazon cardboard \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_4.md b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_4.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7ac3140 --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/content/notes_on_prototypes_4.md @@ -0,0 +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. diff --git a/1_situation/content/processnotes_1.md b/1_situation/content/processnotes_1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..871b870 --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/content/processnotes_1.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/1_situation/content/processnotes_16.md b/1_situation/content/processnotes_16.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..117389d --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/content/processnotes_16.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/1_situation/content/processnotes_6.md b/1_situation/content/processnotes_6.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..42d435c --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/content/processnotes_6.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process +**What are the negative sides? What could be a different approach to solve the issue?** +If what has been analysed above did not work, why didn't it work? Analysing what worked and what did not help to reason on new ways to solve the issue that was not solved. diff --git a/1_situation/content/questions_10.md b/1_situation/content/questions_10.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f4bb577 --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/content/questions_10.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#### Q: how to make a notebook that can travel? +notebook-crossing? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/content/questions_17.md b/1_situation/content/questions_17.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f4fbedf --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/content/questions_17.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/1_situation/content/questions_2.md b/1_situation/content/questions_2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5080a5f --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/content/questions_2.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/1_situation/content/scroll.md b/1_situation/content/scroll.md deleted file mode 100644 index b88e4c0..0000000 --- a/1_situation/content/scroll.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -![wiki scroll](wiki-scroll.jpg) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/content/thesis_14.md b/1_situation/content/thesis_14.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0a2a7d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/content/thesis_14.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/1_situation/content/thesis_9.md b/1_situation/content/thesis_9.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6eeb254 --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/content/thesis_9.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: notebook as subversion +I chose an object or medium which is the emblem of productivity and that participates in consumerist practices. The aim is to convert it from an industrial model to a tool of expression, a self-thought and subversive object. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/create_new_connections.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/create_new_connections.md index 6172667..195adf3 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/create_new_connections.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/create_new_connections.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # to create new connections between content +situation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/fastnotes.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/fastnotes.md index 1949c9f..f74f867 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/fastnotes.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/fastnotes.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # for fast notes +situation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/for_personal_thoughts.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/for_personal_thoughts.md index 2f2472a..5ea3848 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/for_personal_thoughts.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/for_personal_thoughts.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # for personal thoughts +situation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/long_lecture.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/long_lecture.md index 7bdcc83..b4fe641 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/long_lecture.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/long_lecture.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # for a long lecture +situation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/map_of_thoughts.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/map_of_thoughts.md index fb32e77..2539574 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/map_of_thoughts.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/map_of_thoughts.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # to create a flow of thoughts to look at all at the same time +situation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/metalrings.png b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/metalrings.png deleted file mode 100644 index c94fa10..0000000 Binary files a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/metalrings.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/not_to_hesitate_writing.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/not_to_hesitate_writing.md index f4acdb7..2a6908d 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/not_to_hesitate_writing.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/not_to_hesitate_writing.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # not to hesitate while writing/approaching the space +situation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/not_to_waste.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/not_to_waste.md index 16aa1c6..55cd5bc 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/not_to_waste.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/not_to_waste.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # not to waste materials +situation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_15.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_15.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d97cb43 --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_15.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: why notebooks? +22.09.22 +I started to make recycled notebooks during my bachelor's already, in that case it was mostly about recycling materials and reusing materials and I really enjoyed to use trash to make notebooks. I also heard a lot of people feeling guilty in using nice notebooks and trashy notebooks could therefore be better for people because they would get used. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_22.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_22.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fb870ca --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_22.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: let's think +18.04.23 +Let's think about how we make things: if i want to address something, the way I do it is as much as important as the content that I choose. Let's challenge the tools of production, the medium, the space in which it's been produced, how and where the work will circulate. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_7.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_7.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4b91b10 --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_7.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: general rule on making notebooks +It is important to have entry points to access the notebook. This means having a structure that does not slow you down or interrupt the moment in which you want to write something down. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/questions_1.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/questions_1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c193af1 --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/questions_1.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### Q: who do you write for? +03.10.22 +time-specific writing [erica said]= writing that makes sense only in the moment you wrote it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/questions_9.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/questions_9.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..be7b825 --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/questions_9.md @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +#### Q: how to make a notebook as an act of rebellion? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/stream_of_consciousness.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/stream_of_consciousness.md index 892b6e5..4d1cce6 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/stream_of_consciousness.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/stream_of_consciousness.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # to help a stream of consciousness +situation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/temporary_notes.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/temporary_notes.md index 60e9a08..9e10f5c 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/temporary_notes.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/temporary_notes.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # for temporary notes +situation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_1.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..841c8ff --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_1.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +## thesis excerpts: what is a notebook? +“The notebook as a paper machine consists of the functions noting and storing of notes. ‘To note’ means first and foremost ‘to write down’, from the Latin ‘notare’, or from ‘noscere’, which means ‘to get to know’. (...) writing results in a praxis with paper that requires certain gestures, +performed acts, rituals and tools.” (te Heesen, 2005) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_5.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_5.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..40af8df --- /dev/null +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_5.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## 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’. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_calm_anxiety.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_calm_anxiety.md index d678008..6fb45ff 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_calm_anxiety.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_calm_anxiety.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # to calm anxiety +situation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_describe_one_experience.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_describe_one_experience.md index df03bf6..0e5258e 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_describe_one_experience.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_describe_one_experience.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # to describe one experience +situation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_forget.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_forget.md index a3bf06e..16274f8 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_forget.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_forget.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # to forget things +situation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_organise.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_organise.md index 0ced3f0..2877bb2 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_organise.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_organise.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # to organise scattered thoughts +situation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_remember.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_remember.md index d212e15..caa94cc 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_remember.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_remember.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # to remember things +situation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_share.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_share.md index 9574772..0d87f8c 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_share.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/to_share.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # to share with others +situation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/transportable.md b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/transportable.md index a22b685..9feda81 100644 --- a/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/transportable.md +++ b/1_situation/make-a-notebook-that/transportable.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # transportable +situation \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/content/altmaterials_awl.md b/2_binding/content/altmaterials_awl.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..121a124 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/content/altmaterials_awl.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +### alternative materials: do you need a awl? +What is it? This is not a hole puncher, but more like a hole maker. You'll need this in case of a thread binding, to help your needle to pass through the sheets correctly (the sheets need to be alligned - if that's what you want) In this case, a knife would not work. What about a needle? That's already what will pass through the holes. You can also use a needle that is a tiny bigger than the one you'll use for binding later. Yes, it does hurt a bit when the paper is not very thin so a solution is attaching a needle inside anything that you can hold with one hand. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_14.md b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_14.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..940bf0e --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_14.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one +14.02.23 +I noticed how much i work with numbered lists when i have a flat sheet of paper. I think it's pretty evident, looking at *the first notebook* and *the ring one*, how much the shape changed the content. It is very hard right now to use this notebook for brainstorming. I am only writing lines of text and cannot connect with other things at all. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_20.md b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_20.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b9a714f --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_20.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_5.md b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_5.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c4b8cb --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_5.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_7.md b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_7.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe026b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_7.md @@ -0,0 +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. +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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d20e460 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_8.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_9.md b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_9.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f0fb15c --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/content/notes_on_prototypes_9.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one but new +05.12.22 +I found some problems in this new version I made: +It's very inflexible. I cannot turn it around, I cannot open the pages completely and I cannot use the two pages as a whole because the curve is too big. It's too thick and bulky. I cannot transport it easily, there are too many pages to start from. I tried to insert different sections. The problem is I am not able, every time I take notes, to visualise in which area the content I want to write should go into, so then it ends up that I don't write at all because I do not know where to start. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/content/processnotes_14.md b/2_binding/content/processnotes_14.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..becf64b --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/content/processnotes_14.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/2_binding/content/processnotes_2.md b/2_binding/content/processnotes_2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa74b82 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/content/processnotes_2.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#### 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dbba9fc --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/content/processnotes_5.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process +**What are the positive sides? Does it work within the starting purpose?** +This is to understand if the solutions that have been found and applied to the new notebook are valid and working. this is important mostly not to lose track of the reasons underneath the concept and to evaluate how much the modifications worked. diff --git a/2_binding/content/processnotes_8.md b/2_binding/content/processnotes_8.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c21c2f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/content/processnotes_8.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: when i can't use a notebook +What interrupts me from using a notebook is that I do not know where to position the sudden ideas or thoughts I have. From this statement, I understand that what I need from the next notebook is to have the possibility to immediately write down what I have in mind, wherever I position it, without feeling any guilt regarding the appearance of the pages of my notebook. It is also important that it does not look too perfect, so that I feel okay in using what I have however I want. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/content/questions_16.md b/2_binding/content/questions_16.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..16d8eb6 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/content/questions_16.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +#### Q: What makes a notebook a notebook? +05.04.23 +When something gets printed, does it stop to be a notebook? +Clara (tutor) and I discussed about the limits of the pages, how basic paper books do not allow annotation because of the little space in the margines. We tried to define what is a notebook for us. I said that for me it is something that accompanies you in certain situations and offers a support. Clara said they are periodicals. They are positioned in a specific location, and during a certain period of time, where and when the user goes back recurrently. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/content/questions_7.md b/2_binding/content/questions_7.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..43039e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/content/questions_7.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#### Q: how to make a notebook that exaggerate the scattered and the chaos? +need for new inputs out of the mess diff --git a/2_binding/content/thesis_10.md b/2_binding/content/thesis_10.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e20d45 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/content/thesis_10.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/2_binding/content/thesis_16.md b/2_binding/content/thesis_16.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f03312 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/content/thesis_16.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: my aim +I aimed for users to take part in every section of the design process as well as the practical creation of the object, to explore the endless spaces of a notebook and the memories and knowledge hidden inside of it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/already_own_cardboard.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/already_own_cardboard.md index 378197e..8161723 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/already_own_cardboard.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/already_own_cardboard.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ -# to adapt a cardboard you already own \ No newline at end of file +# to adapt a cardboard you already own +binding \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/altmaterials copy 3.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/altmaterials copy 3.md deleted file mode 100644 index d16bb10..0000000 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/altmaterials copy 3.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -### alternative materials: do you need a cutting mat? - -

This is easy. If you need to cut paper, there are two ways: or you fold it and use your knife in the fold to separate the two parts. This method works well if you, for example, start from an A4 and need to make two a5s: it means, when you need the sheet you own to be cut in two identical parts. The other way works well especially if you own a real and sharp paper cutter. You will need a ruler positioned on top of the paper, with the measurements marked, and something that works as a cutting mat. I once used another notebook, but that was radical. Other options are any piece of wood or thick cardboard, anything that nobody cares if it get ruined with cut lines. -

\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/glue_bound.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/glue_bound.md index c6409f7..0b9c7f4 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/glue_bound.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/glue_bound.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # glue bound +binding \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/hard_cover.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/hard_cover.md index f360f68..70b9b84 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/hard_cover.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/hard_cover.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # hard cover +binding \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/metal_rings.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/metal_rings.md index e919938..0caceeb 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/metal_rings.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/metal_rings.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # metal rings +binding \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/no_binding.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/no_binding.md index 10c6637..3538136 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/no_binding.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/no_binding.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # no binding +binding \ No newline at end of file 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..17fb3f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_22.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +#### 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). diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_10.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_10.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aac74bf --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_10.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: how this process could help you +15.03.23 +see modularity: "the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined, often with the benefit of flexibility and variety in use" (urgent publishing book) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_21.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_21.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..beafa3d --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_21.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: what i would like is +18.04.23 +I would like to create (active) makers, not consumers. The final outcome needs to be something to be used to make, not only to receive/consume. I want the users of this work to participate in the act of making notebooks against capitalism and commodity practices. I want to expand the spaces of this medium. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_9.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_9.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..24f2579 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_9.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/questions_15.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/questions_15.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..713cc10 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/questions_15.md @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +#### Q: What is a notebook? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/questions_8.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/questions_8.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..087b26b --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/questions_8.md @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +#### Q: how to make a notebook that is easy to navigate? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/rubber_band.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/rubber_band.md index 0a5ac12..0a1f01c 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/rubber_band.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/rubber_band.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # rubber band +binding \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/soft_cover.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/soft_cover.md index 8d36847..6cd486b 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/soft_cover.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/soft_cover.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # soft cover +binding \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/something_around_you.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/something_around_you.md index 563e1cb..0c7aa46 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/something_around_you.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/something_around_you.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # something you have in the room you are in +binding \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/spiral.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/spiral.md index 20d5784..584562e 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/spiral.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/spiral.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # spiral +binding \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/sticks.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/sticks.md index 00b6d7f..a6347d5 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/sticks.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/sticks.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # sticks +binding \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/strings.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/strings.md index 343a552..77b3d56 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/strings.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/strings.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # strings +binding \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/strips.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/strips.md index 24e491a..363ba28 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/strips.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/strips.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # strips +binding \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/tape.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/tape.md index a3763e3..6cf159b 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/tape.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/tape.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # tape +binding \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_17.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_17.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c2e277 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_17.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: the value of making +As Gibson (2019) argues, making, and learning through making, provide “us with the opportunity to control the narrative of ourselves in a way that off the shelf consumption does not (..): it is an act of subversion”. What we produce with our hands suddenly becomes part of the representation of the world around us, and it includes our vision and our active participation in it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_2.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..550a9d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_2.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: what is note-taking? +Ann Blair defines note-taking as “the product of practices of reading and writing taught in school and reinforced by various cultural models” (Blair, 2010, p.5). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/thesis/thesis copy 3.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_6.md similarity index 86% rename from content/thesis/thesis copy 3.md rename to 2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_6.md index 579f15d..b0e0fdb 100644 --- a/content/thesis/thesis copy 3.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_6.md @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ -

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

\ No newline at end of file +## thesis excerpts: the commonplace book +During the XVI century, the commonplace books (the term in English appeared around 1578) became significant in education and pedagogy and were “private notebooks in which students and scholars kept extracts from the major classical texts” (Yeo, 2008). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/thread_bound.md b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/thread_bound.md index 250183d..e5279d3 100644 --- a/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/thread_bound.md +++ b/2_binding/make-a-notebook-that/thread_bound.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # thread bound +binding \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/altmaterials_cutmat.md b/3_paperformat/content/altmaterials_cutmat.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d80026 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/content/altmaterials_cutmat.md @@ -0,0 +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. diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/notebookkit3.png b/3_paperformat/content/notebookkit3.png deleted file mode 100644 index a3a5383..0000000 Binary files a/3_paperformat/content/notebookkit3.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_11.md b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_11.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..242073b --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_11.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one +18.01.2023 +I feel restricted in the moment I have to write on a flat a5 page. I feel like the content is never organised because I can write in every direction and most of the time I use visual note-taking, or note-making, especially the circular method (have starting points in the middle and then move around it), i get lost in the space because I have no interruptions or limitations. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_17.md b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_17.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49da416 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_17.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one but new +15.03.23 +1) I noticed that I made some of the folded sheets a bit wider than the 20x30 that I used before and some less and I want to see if that cm more I have will influence how I feel. As with the wide sheets I am having problems, how much do I have to reduce it to make it the perfect width? diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_19.md b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_19.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..802ffd2 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_19.md @@ -0,0 +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). +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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4f0c730 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_23.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_3.md b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b1f37e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_3.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the notebook kit +20.09.22 +I delivered to Supi the first *notebook kit: An adjustable and editable notebook with included tape and papers for continuation.* +The idea is that this type of notebooks allows the user to build it up easily as their needs come over and adjusting and editing while using it and not being forced to stay in a standardised area for standardised notebook users. diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_6.md b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_6.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dcc6772 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/content/notes_on_prototypes_6.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: some new ideas on how to play with the structure of the notebook +30.09.22 +Recycle notebooks paper to create new notebooks: check paper making --> if i destroy the paper sheets of a notebook in water, then i make a new notebook out of it, then i melt it again, and again, it should become smaller and smaller? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/processnotes_20.md b/3_paperformat/content/processnotes_20.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6876b76 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/content/processnotes_20.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: some reasons for this project to exist +(C) Learning +.Notebooks are an individual space for learning +.How knowing our thinking processes helps our learning +.Creation experience as part of the process of learning \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/processnotes_3.md b/3_paperformat/content/processnotes_3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bbacbb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/content/processnotes_3.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process +A personal notebook process is the ever-changing process a person can go through, by analysing and keeping attention to their individual note-taking activity and their use of paper notebooks to understand themselves and their needs. + diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/productionchoices3.md b/3_paperformat/content/productionchoices3.md deleted file mode 100644 index 0cbf249..0000000 --- a/3_paperformat/content/productionchoices3.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -# [°°°] -## production choices -

I also inserted some empty pages in the publication, to let some space for thoughts or ideas (if they come while browsing through). The main reason though, is that i have been wondering when a notebook is not a notebook anymore. I knew this publication was going to be printed, but i hope that through this different considerations, for some, this could still be defined as a notebook. The content comes from my reflections and the notes I took, on my laptop and on my notebooks. They were notes and now, after printing them out I wonder, are they still? -To conclude, the publication is printed on A4 sheets to avoid paper waste. I picked for you 5 different types of paper to let you feel different options already intrinsically within the publication.

- -# [°°°] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/questions_3.md b/3_paperformat/content/questions_3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..13677b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/content/questions_3.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/thesis_12.md b/3_paperformat/content/thesis_12.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4066b69 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/content/thesis_12.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: how note-taking affects learning +There are two ways in which the act of note-taking can affect learning: “The encoding hypothesis suggests that the processing that occurs during the act of note-taking improves learning and retention. The external storage hypothesis touts the benefits of the ability to review material” (Mueller and Oppenheimer, 2014). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/thesis_18.md b/3_paperformat/content/thesis_18.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9955b68 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/content/thesis_18.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/thesis_3.md b/3_paperformat/content/thesis_3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc1a14e --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/content/thesis_3.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: the origin of notebooks +Note-taking has existed for a long time but there is not much evidence of it before the XV century (Blair, 2010, p.1). Nowadays, notebooks are mostly used for annotating for later use, but in the past, they were used to organise and classify materials (Yeo, 2008). They “were part of daily life for literate, educated individuals, (..) were prompts for material that should be stored in memory” (Yeo, 2008). Paper notebooks consisted of the work of intellectuals on parchment, to transmit oral knowledge. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/content/whatsinside.md b/3_paperformat/content/whatsinside.md deleted file mode 100644 index d816d8c..0000000 --- a/3_paperformat/content/whatsinside.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -## what you will find inside -

This publication is a collection of materials that all try to help you, a user (that could soon become an active maker), to get inspiration and start making notebooks into your own practice. -some texts will stop and continue on a different card: try to reconnect them to go on reading! Nothing is in order, every piece of the publication is positioned almost 100% randomly in the different cards. You might feel lost, in that case move on, read something else, write down something. You might find an explanation somewhere else. -some of the cards are pieces of my personal thoughs while, in the last year, i have been experimenting with notebooks' making. They might feel completely out of context, as also the pictures of the notebooks these comments are referred to are randomly spread around the publication. Use your imagination and get lost.

\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/altmaterials copy 4.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/altmaterials copy 4.md deleted file mode 100644 index 847d520..0000000 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/altmaterials copy 4.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -### alternative materials: do you need a awl? - -

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

\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/big.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/big.md index d0e8919..2e1cb46 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/big.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/big.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # very big +paperformat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/dotted_paper.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/dotted_paper.md index cb70a48..bda2435 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/dotted_paper.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/dotted_paper.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # dotted paper +paperformat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/horizontal.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/horizontal.md index 0952efe..6b8ad9c 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/horizontal.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/horizontal.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # horizontal +paperformat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/lined_paper.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/lined_paper.md index 42ff33a..c387c16 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/lined_paper.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/lined_paper.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # lined paper +paperformat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/little_space_for_writing.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/little_space_for_writing.md index 638ffc3..3a9b155 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/little_space_for_writing.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/little_space_for_writing.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # with very little space for writing +paperformat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/medium_size.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/medium_size.md index 8e678bc..fbaf4a1 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/medium_size.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/medium_size.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # medium size +paperformat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_18.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_18.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..caec79c --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_18.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: choice of paper +15.03.23 +I also do not like too thin paper but not too thick. It needs to fold a bit but it cannot be something like copy or office paper so between 120gsm and 200gsm. I am not also a giant fan of coloured paper to write on but I love colors so I don't really know how to solve it. I made the cover super yellow though, so maybe that will calm myself down! diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_24.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_24.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dba109b --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_24.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/plain_paper.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/plain_paper.md index 5e91d88..616d46a 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/plain_paper.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/plain_paper.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # plain paper +paperformat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_11.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_11.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..29369e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_11.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: i want to play with my notebook +19.09.22 +I want to have more, to be able to play with my notebook, to know it better. I started to reason on how, as we’ve been creating our personal tools online, we could also create our personal analogue tools. Notebooks are individual and personal objects, but they’re treated like everyone has the same need from a piece of paper. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_13.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_13.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8468dde --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_13.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/questions_14.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/questions_14.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d547d05 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/questions_14.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#### Q: What is your use of notebooks? + diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/questions_3.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/questions_3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..13677b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/questions_3.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/rough_paper.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/rough_paper.md index 90268e2..5fd45dd 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/rough_paper.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/rough_paper.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # rough paper +paperformat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/small.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/small.md index 6dea82a..89e619d 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/small.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/small.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # very small +paperformat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/smooth_paper.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/smooth_paper.md index 75846e8..47bd056 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/smooth_paper.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/smooth_paper.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ -# smooth paper \ No newline at end of file +# smooth paper +paperformat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/space_for_marginalia.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/space_for_marginalia.md index 2ea4a8b..e642340 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/space_for_marginalia.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/space_for_marginalia.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # with space for marginalia +paperformat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/space_for_writing.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/space_for_writing.md index bc49213..ea23eb8 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/space_for_writing.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/space_for_writing.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # with a lot of space for writing +paperformat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/squared_paper.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/squared_paper.md index e1a5150..6c9b54c 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/squared_paper.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/squared_paper.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ -# squared paper \ No newline at end of file +# squared paper +paperformat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_11.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_11.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..15d9bd7 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_11.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: the importance of making DIY notebooks +Someone might think that inviting people to make personalised paper notebooks contributes to paper waste and does not participate in recycling values. Instead, if done properly, DIY can be the best solution to avoid waste and save money simultaneously. Not everyone needs to be active in the same way, but everyone can build up a certain consciousness when personally deciding which ‘ingredients’ to use, also from a monetary point of view. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_4.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_4.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b9285a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_4.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: the first codex +In the Medieval period, the first codex format for manuscripts was created, replacing the papyrus, and the purpose of use shifted “from a cumbersome mnemonic aid to a readily accessible information storehouse” (Hobart and Schiffman, 2000). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_7.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_7.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ed7d92 --- /dev/null +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_7.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thick_paper.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thick_paper.md index 154ac04..3a43e8b 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thick_paper.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thick_paper.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # with thick paper +paperformat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thin_paper.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thin_paper.md index 2f45327..1163e0f 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thin_paper.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/thin_paper.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # with thin paper +paperformat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/vertical.md b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/vertical.md index f7aef9a..a6a7669 100644 --- a/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/vertical.md +++ b/3_paperformat/make-a-notebook-that/vertical.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # vertical shape +paperformat \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/altmaterials_cutter.md b/4_add_ons/content/altmaterials_cutter.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a99c989 --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/content/altmaterials_cutter.md @@ -0,0 +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! diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/december222.png b/4_add_ons/content/december222.png deleted file mode 100644 index fe90ab0..0000000 Binary files a/4_add_ons/content/december222.png and /dev/null differ diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/notes_on_prototypes_12.md b/4_add_ons/content/notes_on_prototypes_12.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e243bb --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/content/notes_on_prototypes_12.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +#### 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/notes_on_prototypes_20.md b/4_add_ons/content/notes_on_prototypes_20.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b9a714f --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/content/notes_on_prototypes_20.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/notes_on_prototypes_26.md b/4_add_ons/content/notes_on_prototypes_26.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d68a51c --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/content/notes_on_prototypes_26.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: this publication +03.05.23 +The final publication is selected content organised and split into little cards. This content, through a python script, get inserted into an a4 template and can be printed as a booklet. Ideally, every time, the PDF comes out differently through random choice. The content mixes only in the same row, not between rows, to avoid contradictory connections (the user will be able to move them around by themselves afterwards anyway). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/opened.jpeg b/4_add_ons/content/opened.jpeg index 5da1f72..011368f 100644 Binary files a/4_add_ons/content/opened.jpeg and b/4_add_ons/content/opened.jpeg differ diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/processnotes_18.md b/4_add_ons/content/processnotes_18.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..40e0e94 --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/content/processnotes_18.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: some reasons for this project to exist +(A) Design +.Theory of design is based on people needs +.The purpose is providing users with hints of accessible designs and examples of easy adds-on to apply to basic notebooks +.What if the structure of the interface could fit better our needs? diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/processnotes_4.md b/4_add_ons/content/processnotes_4.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84d516b --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/content/processnotes_4.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4cdb2e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/content/questions_11.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/questions_6.md b/4_add_ons/content/questions_6.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6537b57 --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/content/questions_6.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### Q: how to make a notebook to protect yourself from the outside? +need for personal space + diff --git a/4_add_ons/content/thesis_13.md b/4_add_ons/content/thesis_13.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ecb34e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/content/thesis_13.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## 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/content/thesis_8.md b/4_add_ons/content/thesis_8.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6f59556 --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/content/thesis_8.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: the problem of notebooks +We live in an era in which we can decide to continuously fulfil our desires, without wondering or understanding what we truly need or want. Many people buy a paper notebook because they are attracted by the idea they have of this object, of that nostalgic feeling of hand-writing. Yet, users of paper notebooks, as I discovered through multiple sessions and conversations, frequently tend not to start or complete their notebooks because they are not conscious of the possibilities this medium can offer. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/altmaterials copy 5.md b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/altmaterials copy 5.md deleted file mode 100644 index 791d1ce..0000000 --- a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/altmaterials copy 5.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -### alternative materials: do you need a cutter? - -

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

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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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e007034 --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/notes_on_prototypes_25.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_12.md b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_12.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f8a0d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_12.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: inspirational quotes +19.09.22 +Someone said (Brendan Howell): our collective work is having new ideas to find better alternatives to th(e ma)instream ways that shut down every imagination chance, they offer the “best” way. Do it in a different way. + "Thus, throughout, I demonstrate how a certain thread of experimental poetry has always been engaged with questioning the media by which it is made and through which it is consumed” [Lori emerson - interfaces] —> the medium is the message (mcluhan) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_19.md b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_19.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f112f85 --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/processnotes_19.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: some reasons for this project to exist +(B) Making +.Bookmaking to create personalised space/tool +.Making as an act of subversion: we create our own narrative, creating a memory device in which the process of creation is inscribed +.What is the feeling of being the creator of your own tool? +.The spiritual power resides in the object itself, not in its ownership \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/questions_12.md b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/questions_12.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0811530 --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/questions_12.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#### Q: How do you write? +(directions, space in the nb..) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/questions_13.md b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/questions_13.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..287e4b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/questions_13.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#### Q: What do you keep and what do you let go in the writing process? +Notebooks as ecology of thought: e.g. who uses it to organise, who to think, so what happens when they write it down? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/questions_5.md b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/questions_5.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c54db1 --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/questions_5.md @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +#### Q: how to make a notebook to experience the world? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/space_for_temporary_thoughts.md b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/space_for_temporary_thoughts.md index 4bd02b5..939431d 100644 --- a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/space_for_temporary_thoughts.md +++ b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/space_for_temporary_thoughts.md @@ -1 +1,2 @@ # to create space for temporary thoughts +addons \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_19.md b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_19.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3db9dad --- /dev/null +++ b/4_add_ons/make-a-notebook-that/thesis_19.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## 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? 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By the middle of the XVII century, the need to produce new and unexpected knowledge through the creation of connections between content had emerged. One relevant work to mention is by Secondo Lancellotti (1583–1643): he created an index system (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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A new need arose from the growth of accessibility to books: how to deal with contradictory information. One solution has been the ‘gloss’, which consisted in adding comments in small cursive on the side of a text (fig.7). Another solution that appeared in the XII century was called ‘summa’ or summary, which purpose was to cut “the diverse interpretations to establish a core of truth” (Hobart and Schiffman, 2000): it began with a question, then contrasting opinions were listed and it ended with a conclusion or ‘sententia’. The need was to sum up large quantities of information to help the reader out.

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

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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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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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“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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Yes, it does hurt a bit when the paper is not very thin so a solution is attaching a needle inside anything that you can hold with one hand. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_bone.md b/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_bone.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..62f8805 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_bone.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +### alternative materials: do you need a bone folder? +This tool help us to fold the sheets to avoid breaking paper, especially if thick, and essentially to be more precise. Instead, you could use the back side of any metal knife. Or anything that is flat and hard and you can easily hold in your hands. Try with other objects too, you will be surprised! diff --git a/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_cutmat.md b/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_cutmat.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d80026 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_cutmat.md @@ -0,0 +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. diff --git a/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_cutter.md b/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_cutter.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a99c989 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/altmaterials/altmaterials_cutter.md @@ -0,0 +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! diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_1.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..841c8ff --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_1.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +## thesis excerpts: what is a notebook? +“The notebook as a paper machine consists of the functions noting and storing of notes. ‘To note’ means first and foremost ‘to write down’, from the Latin ‘notare’, or from ‘noscere’, which means ‘to get to know’. (...) writing results in a praxis with paper that requires certain gestures, +performed acts, rituals and tools.” (te Heesen, 2005) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_10.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_10.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e20d45 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_10.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_11.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_11.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..15d9bd7 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_11.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: the importance of making DIY notebooks +Someone might think that inviting people to make personalised paper notebooks contributes to paper waste and does not participate in recycling values. Instead, if done properly, DIY can be the best solution to avoid waste and save money simultaneously. Not everyone needs to be active in the same way, but everyone can build up a certain consciousness when personally deciding which ‘ingredients’ to use, also from a monetary point of view. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_12.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_12.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4066b69 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_12.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: how note-taking affects learning +There are two ways in which the act of note-taking can affect learning: “The encoding hypothesis suggests that the processing that occurs during the act of note-taking improves learning and retention. The external storage hypothesis touts the benefits of the ability to review material” (Mueller and Oppenheimer, 2014). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_13.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_13.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ecb34e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_13.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: the encoding function +Kiewra (1989) describes how the encoding function occurs “because note-taking activities encourage increased attention, more elaborative processing of specific ideas, and/or greater organisation of lecture material” (Einstein et al., 1985, in Kiewra, 1989). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_14.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_14.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee6f25e --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_14.md @@ -0,0 +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). Does it make a difference to write on a physical medium? Throughout my research, I discovered how much it is important, for recovery and reviewing reasons, where I specifically write words or sentences. Recently, while using an unfitting notebook I made, I found myself scared of forgetting because the pages did not allow a proper instinctive positioning of the content while taking notes. Afterwards, it became extremely hard to retrieve what I was looking for because of how I positioned the text without a convenient structure. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_15.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_15.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..138026a --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_15.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +## thesis excerpts: the bounderies of the page +The concept is that the shape and the structure of the object, the paper notebook, can influence the content and the result of the act of writing, thinking and learning. Bonnie Mak affirms that +“from a young age, we are trained to believe that the boundaries for the interface are always identical to the edges of the material platform of the page – namely, that the cognitive space and physical dimensions of the page are necessarily conterminous.” (Mak, 2014) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_16.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_16.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f03312 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_16.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: my aim +I aimed for users to take part in every section of the design process as well as the practical creation of the object, to explore the endless spaces of a notebook and the memories and knowledge hidden inside of it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_17.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_17.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c2e277 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_17.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: the value of making +As Gibson (2019) argues, making, and learning through making, provide “us with the opportunity to control the narrative of ourselves in a way that off the shelf consumption does not (..): it is an act of subversion”. What we produce with our hands suddenly becomes part of the representation of the world around us, and it includes our vision and our active participation in it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_18.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_18.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c22752 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_18.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: levels of creativity +The most basic level of creativity is doing, which requires a minimum amount of interest. This is what happens when we use a notebook already made in the industry and bought from a shelf. The second level is adapting. This action is made to personalise and change an object you already have. If participants come to the session with a notebook they already own, they could try to change it by making little additions to it, like a back pocket, a taped new sheet, or post-its to create more space. The third level is making. This happens when we build a notebook from scratch but we follow predetermined patterns. This action needs more time and energy. The last level is creating. Creating is making something that does not yet exist. It relies on the use of raw materials and the absence of pre-existing rules. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_19.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_19.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3db9dad --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_19.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: making notebooks’ creation accessible +Recycling and reusing are important in my practice. It concerns not only materials but also the purpose of making notebooks’ creation accessible: Do I have time? How can I make things faster and easier? What if someone is not skilled or has no time? Has no materials? Where can makers gather second-hand materials for cheap/free? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_2.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..550a9d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_2.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: what is note-taking? +Ann Blair defines note-taking as “the product of practices of reading and writing taught in school and reinforced by various cultural models” (Blair, 2010, p.5). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_3.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc1a14e --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_3.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: the origin of notebooks +Note-taking has existed for a long time but there is not much evidence of it before the XV century (Blair, 2010, p.1). Nowadays, notebooks are mostly used for annotating for later use, but in the past, they were used to organise and classify materials (Yeo, 2008). They “were part of daily life for literate, educated individuals, (..) were prompts for material that should be stored in memory” (Yeo, 2008). Paper notebooks consisted of the work of intellectuals on parchment, to transmit oral knowledge. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_4.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_4.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b9285a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_4.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: the first codex +In the Medieval period, the first codex format for manuscripts was created, replacing the papyrus, and the purpose of use shifted “from a cumbersome mnemonic aid to a readily accessible information storehouse” (Hobart and Schiffman, 2000). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_5.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_5.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a877895 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_5.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: the gloss and the summa +A new need arose from the growth of accessibility to books: how to deal with contradictory information. One solution has been the ‘gloss’, which consisted in adding comments in small cursive on the side of a text (fig.7). Another solution that appeared in the XII century was called ‘summa’ or summary, which purpose was to cut “the diverse interpretations to establish a core of truth” (Hobart and Schiffman, 2000): it began with a question, then contrasting opinions were listed and it ended with a conclusion or ‘sententia’. The need was to sum up large quantities of information to help the reader out. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_6.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_6.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0e0fdb --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_6.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: the commonplace book +During the XVI century, the commonplace books (the term in English appeared around 1578) became significant in education and pedagogy and were “private notebooks in which students and scholars kept extracts from the major classical texts” (Yeo, 2008). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_7.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_7.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ed7d92 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_7.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_8.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_8.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6f59556 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_8.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: the problem of notebooks +We live in an era in which we can decide to continuously fulfil our desires, without wondering or understanding what we truly need or want. Many people buy a paper notebook because they are attracted by the idea they have of this object, of that nostalgic feeling of hand-writing. Yet, users of paper notebooks, as I discovered through multiple sessions and conversations, frequently tend not to start or complete their notebooks because they are not conscious of the possibilities this medium can offer. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/thesis/thesis_9.md b/content_new/thesis/thesis_9.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6eeb254 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/thesis/thesis_9.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +## thesis excerpts: notebook as subversion +I chose an object or medium which is the emblem of productivity and that participates in consumerist practices. The aim is to convert it from an industrial model to a tool of expression, a self-thought and subversive object. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_1.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3174863 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_1.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one ++it occupies less space but offers bigger pages + ++the additional lateral wings allow modularity: the user can move the wings to connect with multiple pages at the same time + ++if the user forgets something the wings give more space to write + +-the fact that it's folded means it's thicker and it's difficult to write if it's too big \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_10.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_10.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2a9e8a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_10.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one +18.01.2023 +It feels better to have metal rings and the chance to position every sheet where I want. +CONS. I am very unorganised. At the moment I am always writing everything that comes very fast, in whatever position in the page. This leads to a big amount of content without a structure/any entry point. It is not accessible after some time I wrote things down. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_11.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_11.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..242073b --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_11.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one +18.01.2023 +I feel restricted in the moment I have to write on a flat a5 page. I feel like the content is never organised because I can write in every direction and most of the time I use visual note-taking, or note-making, especially the circular method (have starting points in the middle and then move around it), i get lost in the space because I have no interruptions or limitations. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_12.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_12.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e243bb --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_12.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one +18.01.2023 +FUTURE: I would like to edit the one I am already using to fix the problems I am having at the moment. +-change paper +-add more paper +-fold paper +-pay more attention when i re-organise materials \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_13.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_13.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..50e5241 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_13.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one +09.02.23 +I made some modifications to the metal ring notebook: +-I added color separation for sections equipped with a small pocket; is it going to work? +-a pen holder +-a4 sheets folded in half that allow a more structured note-taking; they are thinner than the paper I used before. Will i like it? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_14.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_14.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..940bf0e --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_14.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one +14.02.23 +I noticed how much i work with numbered lists when i have a flat sheet of paper. I think it's pretty evident, looking at *the first notebook* and *the ring one*, how much the shape changed the content. It is very hard right now to use this notebook for brainstorming. I am only writing lines of text and cannot connect with other things at all. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_15.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_15.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..047cc54 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_15.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one +15.03.23 +Yesterday I discovered I hate writing on vertical large notebooks. I always start making lists and it's never visual and I hate it because I get super lost and also in conversation/brainstorming notes there is no structure at all and I feel uncomfortable because I am not sure I can trust my own notes. In addition, metal rings don't work for me. I am too messy, I have texts everywhere, I cannot track the last thing I wrote, I need to go in order. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_16.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_16.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b54e5d --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_16.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one but new +15.03.23 +I will take *the last vertical notebook* I made in december and rip it apart. I will 1) change the cover, it was too hard and felt very difficult to open and use. 2) add the pockets as they have been very useful. 3) get rid of one of the signatures as I had to make it smaller. 4) I made some of the folded sheets a bit wider and some less and I want to see if that cm more I have will influence how I feel. As with the wide sheets I am having problems, how much do I have to reduce it to make it the perfect width? diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_17.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_17.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49da416 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_17.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one but new +15.03.23 +1) I noticed that I made some of the folded sheets a bit wider than the 20x30 that I used before and some less and I want to see if that cm more I have will influence how I feel. As with the wide sheets I am having problems, how much do I have to reduce it to make it the perfect width? diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_18.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_18.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..caec79c --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_18.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: choice of paper +15.03.23 +I also do not like too thin paper but not too thick. It needs to fold a bit but it cannot be something like copy or office paper so between 120gsm and 200gsm. I am not also a giant fan of coloured paper to write on but I love colors so I don't really know how to solve it. I made the cover super yellow though, so maybe that will calm myself down! diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_19.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_19.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..802ffd2 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_19.md @@ -0,0 +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). +The concept was to give each other something in form of a letter or gift, or anything we could think of, and deliver it to the others in our group. I made a sort of notebook that can be used if you need to write letters, get rid of thoughts, write fast, brainstorm for projects or writing tasks. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_2.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b9ac852 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_2.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one +materials used: + +a4 multiple types of papers (white, cream, coloured, thicker, thinner etc..) + +a4 wrong prints + +amazon cardboard \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_20.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_20.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b9a714f --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_20.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_21.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_21.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7d14868 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_21.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the letter one +20.03.23 +**Comments from receivers:** discussion on how the container/shape of the gift gave the idea on how to use it, it is playful as it's long. Focus on the content, automatic (free) writing, thinking in written form, a notebook is not something you share because it is difficult to understand for others as it's not finalised content. The shape set the vibe for the rest of the pages, inviting the receiver to answer to the questions in the same way, just underneath. Nice format to write a letter. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_22.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_22.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba6047e --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_22.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the last one +28.03.23 +*The last notebook* I made for myself and that I hope will follow me until graduation, as an answer to my thoughts on the 15.03.23. Overall, I am super happy with it. The fact that it fits in the inside pocket of my jacket is just one of the amazing features this notebook is offering. I am already noticing that the different width of the pages is making a difference. +``` +Look for the image in the cards +here I have written my +"thoughts on this notebook" +(hint: yellow cover). +``` \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_23.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_23.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4f0c730 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_23.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_24.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_24.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dba109b --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_24.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_25.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_25.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c090703 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_25.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: this publication +02.05.23 +MAKE IT OPENABLE because, in this way, the entire book can be taken apart and become a notebook. Or just be taken apart and the rings can be used for something else and the prints can be moved around or used as cards, or attached on walls or anywhere. It opens up a bit the concept of book and re-connect it to a printed notebook. It also gives the freedom to completely tear it apart. I like the idea that a book is something "stable" and in this way this publication is more similar to a notebook i added notes on and leave space to others to contribute or make their own version of it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_26.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_26.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d68a51c --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_26.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: this publication +03.05.23 +The final publication is selected content organised and split into little cards. This content, through a python script, get inserted into an a4 template and can be printed as a booklet. Ideally, every time, the PDF comes out differently through random choice. The content mixes only in the same row, not between rows, to avoid contradictory connections (the user will be able to move them around by themselves afterwards anyway). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_3.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b1f37e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_3.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the notebook kit +20.09.22 +I delivered to Supi the first *notebook kit: An adjustable and editable notebook with included tape and papers for continuation.* +The idea is that this type of notebooks allows the user to build it up easily as their needs come over and adjusting and editing while using it and not being forced to stay in a standardised area for standardised notebook users. diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_4.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_4.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7ac3140 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_4.md @@ -0,0 +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. diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_5.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_5.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c4b8cb --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_5.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_6.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_6.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dcc6772 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_6.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: some new ideas on how to play with the structure of the notebook +30.09.22 +Recycle notebooks paper to create new notebooks: check paper making --> if i destroy the paper sheets of a notebook in water, then i make a new notebook out of it, then i melt it again, and again, it should become smaller and smaller? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_7.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_7.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe026b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_7.md @@ -0,0 +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. +It was helpful for the purpose, but the overall idea is that it's very fragile and not very usable if not sitting at a desk. It can help to explain concepts and ideas but it is of any use as a portable notebook. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_8.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_8.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d20e460 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_8.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_9.md b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_9.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f0fb15c --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/notes_on_prototypes/notes_on_prototypes_9.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +#### NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one but new +05.12.22 +I found some problems in this new version I made: +It's very inflexible. I cannot turn it around, I cannot open the pages completely and I cannot use the two pages as a whole because the curve is too big. It's too thick and bulky. I cannot transport it easily, there are too many pages to start from. I tried to insert different sections. The problem is I am not able, every time I take notes, to visualise in which area the content I want to write should go into, so then it ends up that I don't write at all because I do not know where to start. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_1.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..871b870 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_1.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_10.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_10.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aac74bf --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_10.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: how this process could help you +15.03.23 +see modularity: "the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined, often with the benefit of flexibility and variety in use" (urgent publishing book) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_11.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_11.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..29369e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_11.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: i want to play with my notebook +19.09.22 +I want to have more, to be able to play with my notebook, to know it better. I started to reason on how, as we’ve been creating our personal tools online, we could also create our personal analogue tools. Notebooks are individual and personal objects, but they’re treated like everyone has the same need from a piece of paper. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_12.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_12.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f8a0d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_12.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: inspirational quotes +19.09.22 +Someone said (Brendan Howell): our collective work is having new ideas to find better alternatives to th(e ma)instream ways that shut down every imagination chance, they offer the “best” way. Do it in a different way. + "Thus, throughout, I demonstrate how a certain thread of experimental poetry has always been engaged with questioning the media by which it is made and through which it is consumed” [Lori emerson - interfaces] —> the medium is the message (mcluhan) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_13.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_13.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8468dde --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_13.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_14.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_14.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..becf64b --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_14.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_15.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_15.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d97cb43 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_15.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: why notebooks? +22.09.22 +I started to make recycled notebooks during my bachelor's already, in that case it was mostly about recycling materials and reusing materials and I really enjoyed to use trash to make notebooks. I also heard a lot of people feeling guilty in using nice notebooks and trashy notebooks could therefore be better for people because they would get used. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_16.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_16.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..117389d --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_16.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_18.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_18.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..40e0e94 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_18.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: some reasons for this project to exist +(A) Design +.Theory of design is based on people needs +.The purpose is providing users with hints of accessible designs and examples of easy adds-on to apply to basic notebooks +.What if the structure of the interface could fit better our needs? diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_19.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_19.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f112f85 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_19.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: some reasons for this project to exist +(B) Making +.Bookmaking to create personalised space/tool +.Making as an act of subversion: we create our own narrative, creating a memory device in which the process of creation is inscribed +.What is the feeling of being the creator of your own tool? +.The spiritual power resides in the object itself, not in its ownership \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_2.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa74b82 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_2.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: research and starting point +During the first semester at XPUB I have been using an Iperborea notebook, measurements: 10x20. I find the size amazing, but as it involves cutting paper out from an a4 sheet, I didn't want to create a new notebook out of that idea without finding a solution that would not waste anything. I thought about folding instead of cutting: it was nice to add additional notes on the side of the main sheets. diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_20.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_20.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6876b76 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_20.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: some reasons for this project to exist +(C) Learning +.Notebooks are an individual space for learning +.How knowing our thinking processes helps our learning +.Creation experience as part of the process of learning \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_21.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_21.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..beafa3d --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_21.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: what i would like is +18.04.23 +I would like to create (active) makers, not consumers. The final outcome needs to be something to be used to make, not only to receive/consume. I want the users of this work to participate in the act of making notebooks against capitalism and commodity practices. I want to expand the spaces of this medium. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_22.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_22.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fb870ca --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_22.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: let's think +18.04.23 +Let's think about how we make things: if i want to address something, the way I do it is as much as important as the content that I choose. Let's challenge the tools of production, the medium, the space in which it's been produced, how and where the work will circulate. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_3.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bbacbb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_3.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process +A personal notebook process is the ever-changing process a person can go through, by analysing and keeping attention to their individual note-taking activity and their use of paper notebooks to understand themselves and their needs. + diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_4.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_4.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84d516b --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_4.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process +**What is the starting need that brought to the creation and use of the notebook?** +This question helps to highlight the starting point and main reason for the creation of a new notebook (or modification applied). it can be described in a few words. diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_5.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_5.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dbba9fc --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_5.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process +**What are the positive sides? Does it work within the starting purpose?** +This is to understand if the solutions that have been found and applied to the new notebook are valid and working. this is important mostly not to lose track of the reasons underneath the concept and to evaluate how much the modifications worked. diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_6.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_6.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..42d435c --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_6.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process +**What are the negative sides? What could be a different approach to solve the issue?** +If what has been analysed above did not work, why didn't it work? Analysing what worked and what did not help to reason on new ways to solve the issue that was not solved. diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_7.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_7.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4b91b10 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_7.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: general rule on making notebooks +It is important to have entry points to access the notebook. This means having a structure that does not slow you down or interrupt the moment in which you want to write something down. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_8.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_8.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c21c2f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_8.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#### PROCESS NOTES: when i can't use a notebook +What interrupts me from using a notebook is that I do not know where to position the sudden ideas or thoughts I have. From this statement, I understand that what I need from the next notebook is to have the possibility to immediately write down what I have in mind, wherever I position it, without feeling any guilt regarding the appearance of the pages of my notebook. It is also important that it does not look too perfect, so that I feel okay in using what I have however I want. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_9.md b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_9.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..24f2579 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/process_notes/processnotes_9.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_1.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c193af1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_1.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#### Q: who do you write for? +03.10.22 +time-specific writing [erica said]= writing that makes sense only in the moment you wrote it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_10.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_10.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f4bb577 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_10.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#### Q: how to make a notebook that can travel? +notebook-crossing? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_11.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_11.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4cdb2e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_11.md @@ -0,0 +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 diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_12.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_12.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0811530 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_12.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#### Q: How do you write? +(directions, space in the nb..) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_13.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_13.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..287e4b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_13.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#### Q: What do you keep and what do you let go in the writing process? +Notebooks as ecology of thought: e.g. who uses it to organise, who to think, so what happens when they write it down? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_14.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_14.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d547d05 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_14.md @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#### Q: What is your use of notebooks? + diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_15.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_15.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..713cc10 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_15.md @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +#### Q: What is a notebook? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_16.md b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_16.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..16d8eb6 --- /dev/null +++ b/content_new/wiki/questions/questions_16.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +#### 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. 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“The notebook as a paper machine consists of the functions noting and storing of notes. ‘To note’ means first and foremost ‘to write down’, from the Latin ‘notare’, or from ‘noscere’, which means ‘to get to know’. (...) writing results in a praxis with paper that requires certain gestures, +performed acts, rituals and tools.” (te Heesen, 2005)

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PROCESS NOTES: i want to play with my notebook

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

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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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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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Yesterday I discovered I hate writing on vertical large notebooks. I always start making lists and it's never visual and I hate it because I get lost and also in conversation/brainstorming notes there is no structure at all and I feel uncomfortable because I am not sure I can trust my own notes. In addition, metal rings don't work for me. I am too messy, I have texts everywhere, I cannot track the last thing I wrote, I need to go in order. That said, I will take the last vertical notebook I made in december and rip it apart and 1-change the cover, it was too hard and felt very difficult to open and use. 2-still add the pockets because I am using them in the metal ring one and they are very useful. This also allows me to have flaps on the cover that are also useful to easily find where is the last writing 3-I got rid of one of the signatures I had to make it a bit smaller. 4-I also noticed that I made some of the folded sheets a bit wider than the 20x30 that I used before and some less and I want to see if that cm more I have will influence how I feel. As with the wide sheets I am having problems, how much do I have to reduce it to make it the perfect width? I will keep you updated. -15.03.23 -

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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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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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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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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.

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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).

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one

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

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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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-I am very unorganised. At the moment I am always writing everything that comes very fast, in whatever position in the page. This leads to a big amount of content without a structure/any entry point. It is not accessible after some time I wrote things down. --I feel restricted in the moment I have to write on a flat a5 page. I feel like the content is never organised because I can write in every direction and most of the time I use visual note-taking, or note-making, especially the circular method (have starting points in the middle and then move around it), i get lost in the space because I have space with no interruptions or limitations. --i always forget to write dates because it feels very temporary. --i hate how the pages turn around the rings because there is not the right amount of pages to turn it properly. --i do not like the paper I am using right now because it is not flexible or foldable in any way. FOLDABILITY HELPS ME. -+my thoughts are never interrupted because it is a very accessible notebook. I do not feel bad in start writing wherever I find it fitting. -+I can position every sheet where I want, moving them around after use. -18.01.2023 -

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FACT: Paper sheets follow national or international regulations. For example, the typical A4 used for office prints, is part of the international system ISO 216. This is also important to consider when you are making a notebook. If you decide to go for a unusual shape that does not fit in an already existing size, you'll need to think about what to do with the leftovers of your cut. There are many ways to solve this problem but the main is prevent it before you need to solve it. Could you make the same notebook you had in mind but in some way be able not to cut the paper? I love folds. If you really can't, try to cut a size that could be reused for something else. Make a super vertical notebook for fast thoughts or for grocery lists.

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

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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

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one

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

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

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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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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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PROCESS NOTES: a personal notebook process

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What is the starting need that brought to the creation and use of the notebook? +This question helps to highlight the starting point and main reason for the creation of a new notebook (or modification applied). it can be described in a few words.

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alternative materials: do you need a bone folder?

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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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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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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.

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PROCESS NOTES: some reasons for this project to exist

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

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thesis excerpts: notebook as subversion

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

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PROCESS NOTES: why notebooks?

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

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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

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By the middle of the XVII century, the need to produce new and unexpected knowledge through the creation of connections between content had emerged. One relevant work to mention is by Secondo Lancellotti (1583–1643): he created an index system (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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-+it has been helpful to reorganise thoughts in very small sheets of paper. This obliged me to describe a concept in a little amount of words -+it allows me to move around the sheets and then attach them together when I finalised decisions -+it was helpful for this specific purpose of reorganising and connecting thoughts --it's very fragile and not very usable if not sitting at a desk. It can help to explain concepts and ideas, through the unfolding and opening mechanism, but it is of any use as a portable notebook -09.11.22 +

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).

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one

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

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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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Q: what does everyone need from a notebook?

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

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PROCESS NOTES: inspirational quotes

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

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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?

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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 create new connections between content

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This publication is a collection of materials that all try to help you, a user (that could soon become an active maker), to get inspiration and start making notebooks into your own practice. -some texts will stop and continue on a different card: try to reconnect them to go on reading! Nothing is in order, every piece of the publication is positioned almost 100% randomly in the different cards. You might feel lost, in that case move on, read something else, write down something. You might find an explanation somewhere else. -some of the cards are pieces of my personal thoughs while, in the last year, i have been experimenting with notebooks' making. They might feel completely out of context, as also the pictures of the notebooks these comments are referred to are randomly spread around the publication. Use your imagination and get lost.

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to describe one experience

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

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30.09.22 +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.

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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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thesis excerpts: the problem of notebooks

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

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

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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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production choices

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I also inserted some empty pages in the publication, to let some space for thoughts or ideas (if they come while browsing through). The main reason though, is that i have been wondering when a notebook is not a notebook anymore. I knew this publication was going to be printed, but i hope that through this different considerations, for some, this could still be defined as a notebook. The content comes from my reflections and the notes I took, on my laptop and on my notebooks. They were notes and now, after printing them out I wonder, are they still? -To conclude, the publication is printed on A4 sheets to avoid paper waste. I picked for you 5 different types of paper to let you feel different options already intrinsically within the publication.

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Q: how to make a notebook that can travel?

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notebook-crossing?

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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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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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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one

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

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PROCESS NOTES: when i can't use a notebook

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

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: choice of paper

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

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

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

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

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11.10.22 +from M&Ms (workshop) "smoothest paper to prevent myself from hesitating because of no friction" = friction slows down

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for temporary notes

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

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Q: How do you write?

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I need a notebook for ideas sketching and development = where to write down a sudden idea fast and easy and then have the space to develop it in the future = organised but free space to express maybe with sum-up window/space -I always feel like when I write on my paper notebooks is never definitive, i feel it like a work in progress that then is completed when I move the notes on my laptop. If I move them on my laptop not organised I feel stressed because it doesn't allow me to think/reason/process but it doesn't even allow my brain to relax because things are in order.

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

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Q: What makes a notebook a notebook?

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

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the metal rings one

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

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

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

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thesis excerpts: the spatial memory

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

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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. +``` +Look for the image in the cards +here I have written my +"thoughts on this notebook" +(hint: yellow cover).

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one but new

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15.03.23 +I will take the last vertical notebook I made in december and rip it apart. I will 1) change the cover, it was too hard and felt very difficult to open and use. 2) add the pockets as they have been very useful. 3) get rid of one of the signatures as I had to make it smaller. 4) I made some of the folded sheets a bit wider and some less and I want to see if 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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Q: how to make a notebook that is easy to navigate?

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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 (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.

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thesis excerpts: the importance of making DIY notebooks

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

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thesis excerpts: the encoding function

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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).

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to separate content in different sections

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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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something you have in the room you are in

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binding

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rough paper

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

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alternative materials: do you need a bone folder?

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to create space for temporary thoughts

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strings

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plain paper

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PROCESS NOTES: why notebooks?

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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.

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PROCESS NOTES: let's think

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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.

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PROCESS NOTES: research and starting point

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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

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The basic level of creativity is doing, which requires a minimum amount of interest. This happens when we use a notebook already made in the industry and bought from a shelf. The second is adapting. This action is made to personalise and change an object you already have. 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.

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very small

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paperformat

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

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not to waste materials

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thread bound

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step 3. touch the paper you have, fold it, write on it. is it too thick? too thin? too yellow? check what's right and what's not for you.

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thesis excerpts: the gloss and the summa

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A new need arose from the growth of accessibility to books: how to deal with contradictory information. One solution has been the ‘gloss’, which consisted in adding comments in small cursive on the side of a text (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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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: some new ideas on how to play with the structure of the notebook

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

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Q: How do you work with your ideas?

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

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to add content after the page is already full

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Q: How to transform anxieties into notebooks' features?

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

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PROCESS NOTES: why notebooks?

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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.

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NOTES ON PROTOTYPE: the first one but new

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

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PROCESS NOTES: how this process could help you

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15.03.23 +see modularity: "the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined, often with the benefit of flexibility and variety in use" (urgent publishing book)

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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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not to hesitate while writing/approaching the space

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tape

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smooth paper

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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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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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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

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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?

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to forget things

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no binding

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how to make a notebook with recycled reused restored materials?

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

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to have multiple notebooks in one

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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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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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diff --git a/openable.png b/openable.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..910d1aa Binary files /dev/null and b/openable.png differ diff --git a/script.py b/script.py index 8d34fe4..630ba68 100644 --- a/script.py +++ b/script.py @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ for folder in materials: #print(file_path) -number_pages = 26 +number_pages = 27 pages = [] @@ -129,7 +129,10 @@ html_template = f''' + + + + {pages_string} diff --git a/style.css b/style.css index 5bf9e53..d519734 100644 --- a/style.css +++ b/style.css @@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ body{ /*border: 1mm solid salmon;*/ margin: 5mm; box-sizing: border-box; /* Includes the border in the width and height calculation */ - overflow: hidden; + overflow: hidden; + + + + } .card.left-card { @@ -38,110 +42,101 @@ body{ } - +/*game */ h1{ - font-size: 10pt; - font-family: 'NotCourierSans', Courier, monospace; + font-size: 12pt; + font-family: 'NotCourierSans Bold', Courier, monospace; color: #c4007a; font-weight: 600; padding-left: 5mm; + padding-right: 5mm; text-align: center; padding-top: 50px; overflow: hidden; margin: 0mm; margin-bottom: 5pt; line-height: 14pt; + overflow-wrap: break-word; + + + } +/* thesis quotes */ h2{ font-family: 'Catamaran Bold', sans-serif; font-weight: 1000; - font-size: 14pt; - color: #A6DBF0; + font-size: 12pt; + color: #a6dbf0; margin: 0mm; margin-bottom: 5pt; line-height: 14pt; + padding: 5mm 5mm 0mm 5mm; + } +/* alternative materials*/ h3 { font-family: 'Catamaran Bold', sans-serif; font-weight: 1000; - font-size: 14pt; + font-size: 12pt; color: #E2C044; margin: 0mm; margin-bottom: 5pt; line-height: 14pt; + padding: 5mm 5mm 0mm 5mm; } +/* wiki*/ h4{ - font-size: 8pt; - font-family: 'NotCourierSans Bold', Courier, monospace; - color: #c4007a; + font-family: 'NotCourierSans Bold',Courier, sans-serif; font-weight: 800; - padding-left: 5mm; - text-align: right; - overflow: hidden; - margin: 0mm; + font-size: 12pt; + color: #9594C4; + line-height:normal; + padding-left: 10mm; + margin: 1mm; + padding: 5mm 5mm 0mm 5mm; + + } +.h4::after { + content: ":"; + white-space: pre; + } + + .a4::after { + content: "\A"; + white-space: pre; + } p{ margin: 0mm; - line-height: 10pt; -} - - -.info{ - font-family: 'Catamaran', sans-serif; + line-height: 10.5pt; + font-family: 'Catamaran Medium', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; - font-size: 10; + font-size: 10pt; color: #393E41; -} - -.tensteps{ - font-family: 'Catamaran', sans-serif; - font-weight: 800; - font-size: 12pt; - color: #6776FF; - line-height: 16pt; -} - - -.howto{ - font-family: 'Catamaran', sans-serif; - font-weight: 400; - font-size: 10; - color: #E2C044; + padding: 0mm 5mm 0mm 5mm; + } -.makeanotebook{ - font-size: 8pt; - font-family: 'NotCourierSans', Courier, monospace; - color: #c4007a; - font-weight: 800; -} - -.diary{ - font-size: 10pt; - font-family: 'NotCourierSans', Courier, monospace; - font-weight: 800; - color: #9594C4; -} - -.questions{ - font-family: 'Catamaran', sans-serif; +.tensteps{ + font-family: 'Catamaran Bold', sans-serif; font-weight: 800; font-size: 12pt; - color: #6776FF; + color: #6776ff; line-height: 16pt; + padding-top: 100px; padding-left: 5mm; text-align: center; - padding-top: 50px; - - + display: inline-block; + align-self: flex-end; } + img { width: 100%;; height: 100%; @@ -149,6 +144,12 @@ img { } +.game{ + + + object-fit:cover; +} + @media print { * { @@ -157,13 +158,22 @@ img { .body{ margin: 0; + -webkit-print-color-adjust: exact !important; /* Chrome, Safari 6 – 15.3, Edge */ + color-adjust: exact !important; /* Firefox 48 – 96 */ + print-color-adjust: exact !important; } @page{ - size: a4; + size: a4 !important; margin: 0; - + color-adjust: exact; + -webkit-print-color-adjust: exact !important; /* Chrome, Safari 6 – 15.3, Edge */ + color-adjust: exact !important; /* Firefox 48 – 96 */ + print-color-adjust: exact !important; } + + + .overflowing-element { overflow: hidden; } @@ -175,11 +185,10 @@ img { } @media screen { - .page{ - width: auto; - height: auto; - - } + .page{ + border: 1px solid #9594c4; + margin-bottom: 5px; + } nav { @@ -190,11 +199,14 @@ img { z-index: 50; padding: 24px; text-align: right; + position: fixed; + top: 0; + } .btn { - background: none; + background: white; display: inline-block; min-width: 50px; height: 50px; @@ -202,13 +214,17 @@ img { padding: 0 4px; border: 1px solid currentColor; color: #9594c4; - transition-duration: 0.4s; + transition-duration: 0.7s; cursor: pointer; + + } .btn:hover { background-color: #9594c4; } + + } diff --git a/styles.md b/styles.md index 83b0768..931e9e8 100644 --- a/styles.md +++ b/styles.md @@ -8,11 +8,10 @@ text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 3px; -

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