User:Alice/Special Issue I
Content work
Throughout this project, I was part of the content team. I researched and built interview methods, was in contact with the interviewees, conducted interviews, transcribed audio files. After we decided on the right method of working with the content, I was part of the group who edited and combined the various interview parts in order to create a narrative. I also worked extensively on the introduction, blurb, glossary (excluded from the final draft). Towards the end of the project I worked on copy-editing and proofreading, in close collaboration with the design team.
By knowing the content inside-out, I was able to participate in decisions regarding the use of images within the publication, and match them with relevant parts of the content.
Wiki
We used wiki to organize our work process and keep track of our to-do lists.
Worked on editing the Autonomous Archive wiki to make it more easily navigable. Scanned and scanned and scanned some more. Added new properties and values to make the content of the wiki more easy to work with.
Research
On licensing
Based on the discussion we had on licensing, I did some more research and proposed the Peer Production License. This opens for me an interesting insight on why worked-owned businesses are so hard to find, and how easily we take for granted the ways in which even 'ethical' companies are organized.
On archiving
- Lost and Living (In) Archives - ed Annet Dekker
- Pad.ma
On squatting culture
- Squatting in Europe: Radical Spaces, Urban Struggles - Hans Pruijt, ed Squatting Europe Kollective
- Viva Poortgebouw - E.T.C. Dee
- Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces
Other
- Contributed to the scripts used to generate the posters, then generated some posters.
- Participated enthusiastically in Zinecamp, was main contact person for participants before and during the workshop.
What I've learned
- Even though the perspective of having to interview people was, at first, terrifying, I found myself getting more comfortable with the whole process, and actually got to enjoy it.
- Had a very eye-opening new perspective on what can be done with interviews.
- I mustered the courage to push some commits to a code written by someone else. It felt good.
- Semantic MediaWiki was not a concept I was familiar with, but now I have an understanding of it.
- A good learning experience in working with a group with flat hierarchies.
- Learned quite a lot about how to build a publication from scratch.
Going forward
I'll be involved in organizing the Tent exhibition, together with some people from the Poortgebouw. I'd like to develop my own publications and experiment with less traditional methods of publishing and printing.
