Main questions

Why/How is the Poortgebouw valuable to the city?
- Who is it important for? In what ways?
- How has this changed through the years?
- How can our publication add to this?
Why is the Poortgebouw worth archiving?
- What is the situation of the PG today? Is there a sense of urgency?
- Why is the autonomous archive important?
- How different are the narratives inside / outside the PG?

Planning

Action Points (Content)

Define main questions of our publication first draft done
Make a list of the available archives, where to find them, how to visit them > Joca, finish up 28/09 done
Make a draft list of questions we want to ask > Angeliki, finish up 02/10 done
Make a draft list of people we want to interview (inside & outside the PG) > Tash, finish up 02/10 done
Prepare questions for the meeting at the Poortgebouw 02/10 > Everyone, finish up 01/10 done
City archive recon > Joca, Alex & Alice, meetup at 11:00 at the Archive (Hofdijk 651, Rotterdam) 29/09 done Pad
Make a list of topics & search terms for our visit to both City & PG Archive (add them to this pad ) > Everyone, finish up 01/10 done
Finalise list of questions we want to ask > 05/10 done
Finalise list of people we want to interview (inside & outside the PG) > 05/10 done
Visit city archive, scan more documents > 05/10 Joca, done
Write draft emails, contact people we want to interview > Tash, 06/10 done
Write email to Giulia about interviewing inhabitants on Saturday > Alice, 06/10 done
Visit HNI archive Pad with items to request done
Send email to Katia from HNI. Info archive + interview request. Mail members Feijenoord neighbourhoodcouncil -> Joca done
Investigate the conditions and practical aspects of the interviews e.g. recording technology, email, skype (their permission to edit) > 06/10 done
Create our own interview methodology & ethics. Pad > 06/10 done
Contact PG inhabitants and set up interviews > 09/10 email sent to Giulia
Research interview methods of
- Laura (Verhalenhuis Belvedere) done
- Siebe Thissen = specialist in "alternative" histories in Rotterdam done
- Teana Boston-Mammah (Storytelling from the City) email sent
Transcribe Siebe Thissen interview Interview 05/10 > Tash, Alice & Angeliki 09/10 done
Transcribe Cesare Peeren Interview Pad done
Transcribe Laura Verhalenhuis interview Interview 09/10 > Tash, Elisa, Angeliki done
Transcribe Peter and Christine interview Interview 11/10 > Tash, Alice done
Conduct & transcribe Lidewij Tummers interview Interview 13/10 > Joca, Angeliki
Conduct & transcribe Marina Otero interview Interview 13/10 > Tash done
Transcribe Kraakkafe interview Pad > Tash & Joca done
Conduct & transcribe Katia from HNI Interview 13/10 > Joca, Angeliki done
Transcribe Giulia interview Interview 14/10 done
Transcribe Jere interview Interview 14/10 done
Transcribe Rianne interview Interview 14/10 done
Conduct & transcribe Ramon Mosterd interview Interview 18/10 done
Conduct and transcribe Edward Dee interview Pad done
Make a first draft of the structure of the publication: CHAIR, TABLE, BED done
Proofread all interviews > 26/10
Send interview emails to last 3 inhabitants > 26/10
Make plan for algorithmically curated posters > 26/10
Draft layout of pages > 26/10
Conduct interview Feijenoord neighbourhood council Pad with questions Joca, Tash done

Label parts of each interview into the 3 different chapters
Make first draft of glossary
Decide methodology on treating / photographing / copying archive materials
Sebas interview: https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/p/interview_PG_Sebas

Research Action Points (Design)

PG online research
- images
- wiki
- videos
- social media
PG material research
- posterwall
- archive
- architecture
- who did their graphics before?
PG inhabitants discussion
- do they want a visual identity?
references to other designers
- design & politics
printing
- paper
- binding
- printer
- budget
- technique
typography

Production Action Points

layout
typesetting
reviewing
find a printing technique
find a printer
prototype
actual printing

EN summaries of archive items in Dutch

Autonomous_Archive/hand-curated/Summaries_archive_documents

Design Research

Mood

Moodboard

Issues

Layout

no space at all

inside / outside

• Overlapping elements

• Overprinting existing material

• work with (negative) space / moving / influencing spaces

PG = SPACE → INFLUENCE

INFLUENCING SPACE

FLUENT LAYOUT?

Typography

Edit an existing open source typeface?
use an open-source typeface
Libre Baskerville Open Source:
- outside: Classical Typeface (Facade)
- inside: Open-Source (Community)

Some background (maybe helpful)

Time of PG 1879
- Industrialization
- Eclecticism (architecture)
  - Mix of different styles (maybe for layout but also too abstract and not closely related to the issue)
- (Also interesting: Invention of Lithography / Photography in that decade)
  - The book goes from manufacture to mass-production
Time of Squatting 1980
- http://typeandprotest.tumblr.com/
- DTP-Revolution
- Selfmade Posters / Flyers
- simple: mass printing
- simple to publish / spread

→ Libre Baskerville Open Source

Book-Object

Paper

Ordered Samples from Antalis (Antalis Chromolux (120g)) |

Link to Antalis – Samples arrived

Update: more samples from Antalis (Munken & Recycling paper)
- Munken Lynx rough
- Cocoon Offset recycled 100g
- Cocoon Offset recycled 120g
- Cyclus recycled 100g
- Cyclus recycled 115g

→ Using Chromolux 700 120g

Binding

• Glue binding easy and cheap at Publication Station

• Thread Binding complicated to do on our own (time-intensive, less accurate if self-made)

//// Offerte Boekbinderij Hennink

Stichbinding 4,50€ excl. / book (too expensive)

* Gluebinding 1€ excl. / book

Printing-test

Chromolux on Riso did not work

→ decision for laserprinting in order to use Chromolux

How much?

Printing (approx. 140 p, <A5)

Riso: 80 pages = 40 spreads = 20 masters A3 = 40€ (*200 pieces)
Laser: 60 pages = 30 spreads = 0,20 colorcopy * 30 = 6€ (*200 pieces)

Binding

Book–Binding 200 pieces thread-stiched: 900€
self-made

/// Printers Offerts

Graphius

Price 200 copies: € 1.788,57

Option 2/2

Price 200 copies: € 1.788,57

Option 1/1

Price 200 copies: € 529,67

Drukkerij Raddraaier

B/W:

Oplage 200 expl. € 664,00

Scheduling Design & Production

9. Oct – Drafts / Concepts
9. Oct – Final outcome presentation: 3 concepts
10. Oct – 13. Oct Layout / Type drafts
10. Oct – 13. Oct Correction about the final outcome
13. Oct Decision on layout
16. Oct Printing request / Budget plan
16. Oct – 30. Oct Prototyping book + layout
30. Oct – Decision on object (paper, binding…)
30.Oct – 8. Nov Layout / Typesetting
4.Nov – Last Deadline: Editorial report rev.1
4.Nov – 5.Nov – Implementation 1
6.Nov – Last Deadline: Editorial report rev.2
6.Nov – 8.Nov – Implementation 2 / Last layout changes
8. Nov & 9.Nov – detail typography
10.Nov – Write printing data
10. Nov – last deadline passing for print
6. Dec – publication launch

Process

Drafts

Layout

layout grid

image captions with aspect ratio

names / metadata

raster (AM Raster)

Why the book as a medium?

fixed structure & narrative vs database of wiki / archive.
Haptic experience (Paper vs digital)
Legitimacy
Self-contained
using the book as a statement / fixed object in time and space
capturing a certain timeframe -> fixed
creates access to the actual archive

Images

images on glossy paper only
image captions on matt paper and with aspect ratio of images
the use of flash and verticals as a way of creating a consistent visual structure as a way to emphasize a lived in space
rastering (give back the character of the old print mediums from zins of formal squatts)

Typography

Libre Baskerville

open source
supporting the open spirit
referring to the time of PG 1879
Industrialization
Eclecticism (architecture)

Metadata

Metadata (tuned – information about interviewed people)
Layouting much text: how to generate tension

→using indents and iterating throughout the book

Paper

Chromolux 700m(one sided glossy - one sided matt) on glossy side
photography, on matt side - text. this way we used paper as well as an haptical communication element.
contradiction of the building, inside - outside
guide through the publication, seperate images and text (support structure)
give value to archival material.