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1 What do you want to make?

I want to organise a series of Collaborative Explorative Sessions [CES] (meetings, workshops, experiments, study cases, conversations, surveys) to analyse the use of notebooks in contemporary society as well as to create a space for people where to discover how notebooks are made, to think about the use they do of the object and finally how they can be created by the users themselves based on their needs. I will then observe and analyse the different sessions to give an overview of my research methods and outcomes of the CES, that will feed my Master thesis.

2 How do you plan to make it?

(A) Organise Collective Explorative Sessions [CES]: spaces to discuss and analyse notebooks to gather information, underline and go beyond the limits of notebooks. Participants will e.g.: 1. discuss & analyse their own notebooks & find solutions collectively 2. create together new physical prototypes. These sessions will attempt to unify thinking and making with the purpose of understanding and discovering ourselves and our needs, through the act of making notebooks.

The sessions can make use of different structures and forms: collective, 1:1, writing sessions, making sessions, exercises in couple etc.

To achieve this, I will plan the dates and the structure of the sessions, find and contact the locations, advertise and invite people to join. I hope that by April I will have produced a series of sessions with the same people and an outcome that would be the participants' reaction to my proposals.

first explorative session with xpub2 students on 26.09.22
questions I gave the participants to choose from before starting the session
the plan of the session 01
the plan of the session 02

(B) Create a collection of essays on the outcomes of the sessions and the discoveries of the participants (see thesis outline). I discussed these topics with my classmates and they are already reacting with their own prototypes. I asked them to write about their process of research; hopefully, during the sessions I will create interested contacts to gather more discovery processes from others. I will also do this work on myself, trying out different notebooks and exploring and writing about the process of discovery I am going through. The notebooks prototypes I will work on will include simple and accessible adds-on that users can use to start implementing their already-existing notebooks (like pockets, foldings, additional papers..) that could feed the CES.

a multicolumned notebook: could we fold it more?
first notebook kit: An adjustable and editable notebook with included tape and papers for continuation
sketches for new prototypes

3 What is your timetable?

SETT/OTT. Research, reading & notebooks prototypes.

NOV/JAN. Work on CES structures, research, reading & notebooks prototypes.

Organise collective session (22 Nov in school// + 28 Nov Bollenpandje?) as well as individual ones (3 people).

Write texts on: analysis of past sessions (M&Ms, Leeszaal, individual session with Clara, Bollenpandje, 'make your own tools' in school); my personal notebook research process.

JAN-FEB. Research, reading & notebooks prototypes.

Organise a collective session as well as individual ones.

Write about past sessions & notebooks research process.

MAR-APR. Notebooks prototypes.

Organise a collective session as well as individual ones.

Write about past sessions & notebooks research process.

APR-JUN. Organise a collective session as well as individual ones.

Making use of the findings to use in the end-result of the design, create a notebook structure that can contain the contents of the sessions and research methods.

4 Why do you want to make it?

I am interested in notebooks as a means of creativity, a space for thinking and reasoning, a personal world inside this messy world we live in. I like the idea of getting lost in our own space, how writing and doodling and drawing become part of our living. And, I wonder, can this personal world be the same for everyone, can it be standardised? My theory is that everyone, in different situations, has different needs while using a notebook and that the efficiency (in the sense of: how much we use it, how useful it becomes for us, how we feel free and comfortable with it) can change using different structures.

Lori Emerson in the book Reading Writing Interfaces describes how in recent years design is getting every day more invisible and users are becoming less and less aware of the processes underneath the devices they use: in the same way as with digital interfaces, humans think less and less about what they use or what they do or why or how. We live in an era where we can decide to continuously fulfill our desires, without even understanding or asking ourselves what we really need or want. I assume that many people buy notebooks because they are attracted by the idea around the object, but then they never start or finish them because, still my assumptions, they do not really know what is their need from this object. I would like the meetings to be experiences of discovery, moments where to play with this object, all together, and explore, experiment and discover the possibilities of notebooks, also as part of a research about themselves and their participation in the world. I would like participants to explore their inner self and discover what they need from a notebook, and then, if they are up for it, to discover how they are made and how accessible it can be for everyone to create/edit their own, based on what they're actually looking for. Like Notebooks Therapy.

In addition, consumerism, capitalism and new technologies "promote efficiency and productivity more than happiness and creativity" (Sanders E. B.-N. and Stappers P. J., 2014), but at the same time the desire of people towards creation and expression of self is emerging again (see social media DIY or etsy.com). Therefore, I feel that using an object that, in a way, is the emblem of productivity, and trying to transform it into a self thought and subversive one is the right direction I want to give to my project.

5 Who can help you and how?

Anyone interested in the use of notebooks, anyone that thought at least once about something related to their use of note taking methods and structures; contributors and participants to my workshops; anyone who knows people that would be interested in participate to my sessions as well as who knows locations or organisations that would like to collaborate. Experts in workshops or generative design research would also be of great help.

6 Relation to previous practice

In the past year as an XPUB student I analysed patterns and disrupted common structures to create new versions of texts. I created a prototype of linguistic patterns and the impossible project website, a tool for vernacular translations. Plus, I used the annotation system created for Special Issue 16 to gather translations from users.

I always tried to involve a public, to explain more than what seems like needed, had in mind the idea that our public should understand and it has been underlined my intent of translating one form of research into an activity/event. One of the results of this has been the crosswords game, both for the launch day and for the publication. I like the idea that an audience can interact with what is shown to them: everyone has different learning methodologies, and it’s our job to put everyone in a situation where they can get the best out of the experience.

In the last trimester, we worked with notation systems, annotation methods and distributive practices, that grasped my interest quite a lot. Miriam and I, for the week02 release, produced an instructional piece on “how to make sound”. The proposals I have been part of are also significant: week5 release was about collective writing and the idea of distributive practice.

At a certain point during the last trimester, I started to shape my focus seeing a particular interest that I developed since the first day but never kept into account: my notebook. I started making notebooks a few years ago and has always found the process of creation really interesting. Last year, I have been taking notes on different notebooks throughout the year, made by myself. I then started questioning myself,, my needs and the notebooks I was using. I wanted 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 digital tools, we could also create our personal paper tools.

7 Relation to a larger context

This research is basically based on organising sessions to create a space where to analyse notebooks and to slow down lives, take the time to explore our inner selves and build our version of the object that becomes the expression of ourselves in the world.

The first concept can be seen in https://www.notebookstories.com/ (Anon, n.d.), a blog where the owner gathers analysis and advice on every type of notebook on the market.

The "Hipster PDA" is "a vastly superior, greatly simplified device for capturing and sharing information" by Merlin Mann (Mann, 2007). The project underlines a bit what I am doing with my own notebooks: finding solutions to make the object more functional for myself and the use I want to give to it. In this case, the author invites people to use his way to solve their problems and this is where my research instead diverts and pushes users to create their own.

An example of the last concept that I‌ found really inspiring is the work by Kealy-Morris (Kealy-Morris, 2015) where the author created a space for design students to create a personalised surface (paper books) to showcase their artworks. And the research on students of UiTM creating personalised notebooks to help them in their studies (Hamzah et al., 2016).

I really enjoyed "the book of notebooks" of Dan Perjovschi (Serban, 2018) because it makes visible how much the use of notebooks becomes part of a practice and a way of thinking and working.

Finally, as an example of beautiful "instructional" publications, I really enjoyed "How to shoplift books" (Horvitz 2019) and "140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth" (Ulrich and Stasinopoulos 2014) that invite users to produce/act as a reaction to the content of the books.

8 References/bibliography

Anon, (n.d.). Notebook Stories | Notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, diaries: in search of the perfect page…. [online] Available at: https://www.notebookstories.com/.

Gibson, M. (2019). Crafting communities of practice: the relationship between making and learning. Int J Technol Des Educ 29, 25–35

Hamzah, F., Sharifudin, S., Kamarudin, A. and Azlan, M. (2016). The use of personalized notebook among first semester students of UiTM. National Conference of Research on Language Education 2016.

Horvitz, D. (2019). How to Shoplift Books. Printed Matter Inc., New York.

Illich, I.D. (1985). Tools for conviviality. London: Marion Boyars.

‌Kealy-Morris, E. (2015). The bookbinding workshop: Making as collaborative pedagogic practice. Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, [online] 14(2), p.119.

Korn, P. (2015). Why We Make Things and Why It Matters. David R. Godine Publisher.

Mann, M. (2007). Introducing the Hipster PDA. [online] Available at: https://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-pda.

Sanders E. B.-N. and Stappers P. J. (2014). Convivial design toolbox: generative research for the front end of design. Amsterdam: Bis.

Șerban, A. (2018). MOTTO DISTRIBUTION» Dan Perjovschi: The Book of Notebooks. [online] Available at: https://www.mottodistribution.com/site/?tag=dan-perjovschi-the-book-of-notebooks.

Wenger-Trayner, E. and Wenger-Trayner, B. (2015) An introduction to communities of practice: a brief overview of the concept and its uses. [online] Available at: https://www.wenger-trayner.com/introduction-to-communities-of-practice/.

Ulrich H. and Stasinopoulos K. (2021). 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth. Penguin UK.

Yuill, S. (2008). All Problems of Notation Will Be Solved By the Masses. [online] Mute. Available at: https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/all-problems-notation-will-be-solved-masses.

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-notebook
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+== <span style="font-family: Futura; font-size: 21px; color: #23868F;">1 What do you want to make?</span> ==
+I want to organise a series of '''Collaborative Explorative Sessions [CES]''' (meetings, workshops, experiments, study cases, conversations, surveys) to analyse the use of notebooks in contemporary society as well as to create a space for people where to discover how notebooks are made, to think about the use they do of the object and finally how they can be created by the users themselves based on their needs. I will then observe and analyse the different sessions to give an overview of my research methods and outcomes of the CES, that will feed my Master thesis.
+== <span style="font-family: Futura; font-size: 21px; color: #23868F;">2 How do you plan to make it? </span> ==
+'''(A)''' '''Organise''' '''Collective Explorative Sessions [CES]:''' spaces to discuss and analyse notebooks to gather information, underline and go beyond the limits of notebooks. Participants will e.g.: 1. discuss & analyse their own notebooks & find solutions collectively 2. create together new physical prototypes. These sessions will attempt to unify thinking and making with the purpose of understanding and discovering ourselves and our needs, through the act of making notebooks.
-play with pages to have more space and connections
+The sessions can make use of different structures and forms: collective, 1:1, writing sessions, making sessions, exercises in couple etc.
-modularity, structure vs playfulness, mess and inspiration
+To achieve this, I will plan the dates and the structure of the sessions, find and contact the locations, advertise and invite people to join. I hope that by April I will have produced a series of sessions with the same people and an outcome that would be the participants' reaction to my proposals. <gallery>
-analyzing and researching other peoples notebook / needs / limits
-modular notebook kit
-test cases, different needs
-everyone is different, many things / ideas thoughts on the notebook and note taking
-instructions, conceptual art, sol lewitt, unknown outcomes
-distributive work
-== 1 What do you want to make? ==
-''General introduction, what you’re concretely thing you’re thinking about: an installation, performance, etc.. Whatever''
-I want to organise a series of '''Collaborative Explorative Sessions [CES]''' (meetings, workshops, experiments, study cases, conversations, surveys) on the topic of notebooks, with the purpose of analysing the use of notebooks in contemporary society as well as trying to increase the awareness and consideration that people have of notebooks as tools, to discover how they are made, how they can be personalised and created by the users themselves.
-For the project to continue after the end of the series of explorative sessions, I plan to create '''''an instructional piece/text''''' that users could use to go through the analysis of self and the creation of their own tools, in this case notebooks. The PLAN B is a web page where to give space to the information and documentation that will be gathered through the activities.
-== 2 How do you plan to make it? ==
-''Describe how you will go through reading and writing practice.. How it will come together and possible outcomes.. How could the project come together as a hole''
-I want to create a conceptual map that reconnects the uses of notebooks in society and organise the collective explorative sessions [CES] based on these subject matters, for example ''notebooks as diaries, notebooks as annotation tools, notebooks as generators, notebooks as temporary archives, notebooks as craft, notebooks as community memory..''I need to research on all of these topics, as well as the ''History and development of note taking'' ''& note making''and ''Note taking, learning and memory: how is it connected?'', as well as creating a '''''Glossary of Notebooks''''' to specify what I am working on, giving a context to the work (both for myself but also for others). The research's aim is being able to introduce participants with more consciousness and knowledge on what we are trying to achieve during the explorative sessions.
-In sections:
-'''(A)''' <u>Create a temporal community for temporal archives</u> (notebooks): a space to collectively discuss and analyse notebooks to gather information and underline and go beyond the limits of notebooks.
-In particular, organise '''Collective Explorative Sessions [CES]''' where participants could e.g.: 1. discuss & analyse their own notebooks & find solutions collectively 2. create together new physical prototypes. Or other types of workshops e.g. ''Exploring pen&paper'' or ''Collective writing through the use of notebooks''. The idea is that experimenting with the different sides of the use of notebooks, I will gather a major amount of options, ideas and possibilities to be able to work on the interface. These sessions will try to unify thinking and making, as learning through making is the best way to understand and discover our inner self.
-To achieve this, I have to plan the dates and study the subject matters of the workshops, find and contact the right locations (a possibility is, in some occasions, to make the location part of the thematic), start advertising and invite people to join. <gallery caption="''First [CES]: during this session, participants also had a piece of paper to pick from a selection I made for them to start reasoning with their hands/annotation methods throughout the session.''">
 File:M&Ms notebooks.jpg|first explorative session with xpub2 students on 26.09.22
 File:Questions for M&Ms.jpg|questions I gave the participants to choose from before starting the session
 File:Notes on 01.jpg|the plan of the session 01
 File:Notes on.jpg|the plan of the session 02
-</gallery>'''(B)''' <u>Create a collection of sample notebook prototypes</u>: together with the participants ideas and prototypes will emerge, but at the same time I will also do the same work by myself (both to be more an help with tools and concepts with the participants but also to research new ways of using a notebook).
+</gallery>'''(B) Create a collection of essays on the outcomes of the sessions and the discoveries of the participants (see thesis outline).''' I discussed these topics with my classmates and they are already reacting with their own prototypes. I asked them to write about their process of research; hopefully, during the sessions I will create interested contacts to gather more discovery processes from others. I will also do this work on myself, trying out different notebooks and exploring and writing about the process of discovery I am going through. The notebooks prototypes I will work on will include simple and accessible adds-on that users can use to start implementing their already-existing notebooks (like pockets, foldings, additional papers..) that could feed the CES.<gallery>
-At the end of the year I would like to have different categories/concepts that could feed the tool on the digital interface. To try out the prototypes, I will sometimes distribute them to others to see what is their use of it, to gather comments and reviews on the notebook they are testing out.<gallery>
 File:Multicolumnednotebook .jpg|''a multicolumned notebook:'' ''could we fold it more?''
 File:First notebook kit.jpg|first ''notebook kit: An adjustable and editable notebook with included tape and papers for continuation''
 File:Annotation scans (2).jpg|sketches for new prototypes
-</gallery>'''(C)''' Write an instructional piece to introduce people to the topic and be able to interpret it in their own way. In addition, create a webpage where to gather the research results and documentation of the events and discoveries.
+</gallery>
-== 3 What is your timetable? ==
+== <span style="font-family: Futura; font-size: 21px; color: #23868F;">3 What is your timetable? </span>==
-''Include a timeline of what needs to be done, to understand if plans are realistic. Break it down in smaller steps.1 month-2 months chunks''
+'''SETT/OTT.''' Research, reading & notebooks prototypes.
-=== 29 SETT-17 OCT ===
-i want to research and read, work on the glossary, contextualise what I've been creating till now.
-study some notebooks' history and development.
-I  want to produce another notebook prototype
-→ i have to prepare a nicer way to make people talk and think about their notebooks, to organise the right workshop for the public moment at Leeszaal.
-=== 17 OCT [PM#1 Leeszaal] - 6 NOV ===
-I have to create a conceptual map that reconnects the uses of notebooks and plan the events for the year based on thematics I described in the above section and organise my case studies in a more structured way --> start to make sketches for the webpage to gather material.
-Create another notebook prototype.
-Theoretical research on the subject matters.
-=== 5 & 6 NOV [PM#2 Zine Camp] - 28 NOV ===
-'''''[18 NOV: project proposal and thesis outline deadline]'''''
-Prepare for the next public moment.
-Work on the web page to gather material.
-Theoretical research on the subject matters.
-Create another notebook prototype.
-=== 28 NOV [PM#3 Buitenboel] - 10 JAN ===
-'''''[2nd DEC: 1st chapter thesis draft]'''''
-Theoretical research on the subject matters.
-Create another notebook prototype.
-During Christmas maybe i will organise a workshop with my family to observe how people from the outside behave and work with notebooks
-Work on the web page to gather material.
-=== JAN-FEB ===
-'''''[17 FEB: 1st draft thesis]'''''
-organise a session .
-work on notebook instructions digital prototype & web page to gather material.
-Create another notebook prototype.
-Theoretical research on the subject matters.
-=== MAR-APR ===
-'''''[31 MAR: 2nd draft thesis]'''''
-organise a session .
-work on digital prototype & web page to gather material.
-Create another notebook prototype.
-Theoretical research on the subject matters.
-=== APR-JUN ===
-'''''[14 APR: thesis deadline]'''''
-organise a session .
-working on a prototype in which presenting the written thesis: a modular notebook that contains all the information to be used in all directions, connected by the user
-finish the digital prototype and web page
-== 4 Why do you want to make it? ==
-''Your motivation, what drives you to undertake this project''
-I am interested in the act of annotating as a mean of creativity, a space for thinking and reasoning, a personal world inside this messy world we live in. I like the idea of getting lost in our own space, how writing and doodling and drawing can become part of our living. And this personal world cannot be the same for everyone, cannot be standardised. My idea is that everyone has different needs while using a notebook and that the efficiency (in the sense of: how much we use it, how useful it becomes for us, how we feel free and comfortable with it) can change using a different interface.
-Lori Emerson in the book ''Reading Writing Interfaces'' describes how in recent years design is getting every day more invisible and users are becoming less and less aware of the processes underneath the devices they use: in the same way as with digital interfaces, humans think less and less about what they use or what they do or why or how. In addition, I think that they are also slowly losing their connection with nature and materiality, and I am wondering if it wouldn't help to reconnect to craftsmanship through the creation of notebooks, the touch of paper and the lines of a pen on the surface, to recreate a little space for ourselves in this fast and angry world. I would like the meetings to be '''''collective experiences of discovery'',''' moments where to play with this object, all together, and explore all the possibilities this interface can offer.
-In addition, I have heard some stories about notebooks and I am sure there are a lot more to discover; some of them underlines how easy it is to buy new notebooks but how hard it is to start or finish them: I believe this is also connected to consumerism habits. We live in an era where we can decide to continuously fulfill our desires, without even understanding or asking ourselves what we really need or want. I assume that many people buy notebooks because they are attracted by the idea around the object, but then they never start or finish them because, still my assumptions, they do not really know what is their need of having such an object. I would like to create a space where people can explore, experiment and discover the possibilities of notebooks. I want people to discover what they need from a notebook, and then, if they are up for it, to discover how they are made and how accessible it can be for everyone to create their own, based on what they're actually looking for. Like ''Notebooks Therapy''.
-== 5 Who can help you and how? ==
-''Look wider in the world, to involve external people, colleagues in the field, look a bit outside''
-Gersande and the BookBinding workshop of Rietvald in Amsterdam
-People working with book folding, binding, paper players experts
-Collective writing and annotating (Simon Browne?)
-I don't know what i need yet it's too early.
-== 6 Relation to previous practice ==
-''What you did before in the past years, what you’re proposing now is part of what happened in the past, showing continuity, you always built upon, showing that you’re not starting from scratch''
-In the past year as an xpub student I have enjoyed working with language and text. I tried to analyse patterns and on the other side, to disrupt common structures to create new pieces of text, to create “vernacular translations”. Here, I created a prototype of linguistic patterns (as rejection letters) and the [https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/theimpossibleprocess/ impossible project website], a tool for translations. Plus, I used the annotation system created for Special Issue 1 to gather translations from users.
-I also started to think about archiving methodologies and how to use archives in a more accessible way and the use of public libraries, so how people interact with books, how to connect people and books. Underlined example of translating one form of research into an activity/event. I always tried to involve a public, to explain more than what seems like needed, had in mind the idea that our public should understand. One of the results of this has been the crosswords game, both for the launch day and for the publication. I like the idea that an audience can interact with what is shown to them: everyone has different learning methodologies, and it’s our job to put everyone in a situation where they can get the best out of the experience.
-During Special Issue 2, we discussed an idea I liked a lot: geocaching books. The idea comes from the [https://www.bookcrossing.com/ bookcrossing.com] website: books that can be shared, that can move, that are not left into a shelf. A nomadic publication: moving from one media to the other, using different objects so that the publication can move through. Never developed interest in web-to-print tools. Interest in material objects.
-In the last trimester, we worked with notation systems, annotation methods and distributive practices, that grasped my interest quite a lot. Miriam and I, for the [https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/SI18/02/recordings/your%20personal%20guide%20to%20making%20sound.mp3 week02 release], produced an instructional piece on “how to make sound”. The proposals I have been part of are also significant: [https://issue.xpub.nl/18/05/ week5 release] was about collective writing, a practice that I find deeply interesting, and I was also interested in the idea of distributive practice (produce—>share—>exchange—>perform—>edit—>produce—>share—>..go on). As well as transcription methods that fed the need of experimenting with text (see [https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~flem/__lab__/files/public_html/THREE_untangled%20state/libretto.txt?_xsrf=2%7C5ee6242a%7C73821793f550e90baa80cd87d8d7464c%7C1651602309 Libretto of week3)]. While talking about instruments and tools, I worked on [https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~flem/FIVE_The%20Drag-able/draggable.html the Draggable] , another online tool to mess up with texts (and audios in this case).
-The second editorial proposal was about [https://issue.xpub.nl/18/07/ folder and content nesting]: again, the activation by users is essential for the functionality of the tool we created for this release. Again, it was a collective process: the result will be obtained only if others will actively participate.
-At a certain point during the last trimester, I started to shape my focus a bit better seeing a particular interest that I developed since the first day but never kept into account: [[User:FLEM/Notebook|my notebook.]]
-I have been taking notes on different notebooks throughout the year, made by myself. At some point, before making the one for the last trimester, I started to question myself and the notebooks I was using. I wanted 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 digital tools, 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.
-=== KEYWORDS & PROJECTS recap ===
-language
-text
-translation
-pattern analysis
-disrupting common structures
-texts as generators
-used annotation methods to gather translations
-'''rejection letters analysis'''
-'''impossible project website'''
-'''waving exercise'''
-audience involvement and interaction
-'''crossword glossary and game'''
-geocoaching books
-nomadic publication (from one media to the other)
-web-to-print
-material objects
-notation systems, annotation methods and distributive practices
-instructional work
-'''“how to make sound" with miriam'''
-transcription methods
-'''Libretto with Jian week3'''
-collective writing
-'''editorial proposal week5 and week7'''
-'''the Draggable'''
-notebooks
-anti-standardisation tools
-'''my notebook prototypes'''
-== 7 Relation to a larger context ==
-''Theoretical material that shares stuff with your project, think about outside projects that share something with yours''
-''Highlighting in which network of media you’re working with, awareness of broader context''
-=== commonplace books ===
-<nowiki>https://thecommonplacebookproject.com/</nowiki>
-=== notebooks ===
-the book of notebooks dan perjovschi
-<nowiki>https://www.notebookstories.com/</nowiki> - blog on notebooks
-==== examples of "different" (marketing) notebooks: ====
-<nowiki>https://www.mixiwnotebooks.com/</nowiki>
-<nowiki>https://www.modubooq.com/custom-notebook/</nowiki>
-<nowiki>https://perfect-notebook.com/</nowiki>
-<nowiki>http://ratfactor.com/about</nowiki>
-<nowiki>https://tumblr.austinkleon.com/tagged/notebooks</nowiki>
-https://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-pda
-== 8 References/bibliography ==
-''Stuff you’re been reading about, (dictionaries and wikis NO), use Harvard reference method, find the good references—->check previous work''
-Urgent publishing -
+'''NOV/JAN.''' Work on CES structures, research, reading & notebooks prototypes.
-reading writing interfaces - lori emerson
+Organise collective session (22 Nov in school// + 28 Nov Bollenpandje?) as well as individual ones (3 people).
-'''Note Taking as an Art of Transmission by Ann Blair (2004)'''
+Write texts on: analysis of past sessions (M&Ms, Leeszaal, individual session with Clara, Bollenpandje, 'make your own tools' in school); my personal notebook research process.
-The author creates a note taking timeline starting with this sentence: “The transmission served by personal notes most often operates within one individual’s experience (…) after used in articulating a thought”. I feel like this point is particularly important for my research as it talks about note taking as an individual’s experience, notes show the insights of an individual expressing freely.
+'''JAN-FEB.''' Research, reading & notebooks prototypes.
-The history of note taking moves from ''adversaria'' to ''common books'' (that will help for my glossary) and to “kinds of notes”: by field, intended audience, general purpose. This part is particularly important because I think I need to create some limits or instructions of what I am discussing about. It talks about collective annotating (Kant’s students) or “writing chorus” (A. H. Francke).
+Organise a collective session as well as individual ones.
-The author analyses the short-term use of notes and what would happen to them in the past, as well as how to conserve them for future transmission. “Forgetting is also an important aspect of remembering” (Harald Weinrich, 1996). The texts moves on with the history of notes and the impact of early modern note taking, how many scholars studied different ways of note taking and it gives new or additional definitions to the words that regard note taking like ''lemmata, adversaria, historic, etc..).''
+Write about past sessions & notebooks research process.
-'''The bookbinding workshop: making as collaborative pedagogic practice by Elizabeth Kealy-Morris (2015)'''
+'''MAR-APR.''' Notebooks prototypes.
-In this text, Kealy-Morris is considering student engagement through collaborative teaching and learning practices. In this case, the purpose is creating a learning space for art and design students to understand and develop their creative identity and self; the connection to my research arrives when the author discusses how the learning experience becomes part of the process of creation.The text touches the importance of craft and how the act of creating is an important step to learn about ourselves: it reconnects to the idea of developing a consciousness in the needs for a learning space made by participants for themselves.
+Organise a collective session as well as individual ones.
-The author discusses the different type of learning and knowledge, experiential, or deductive or constructive learning. This opens a new window on the topic of personalised learning and how every individual has different approaches and methods to reach some kind of knowledge. The purpose of the “Bookbinding Club” proposed in this article reconnects to the purpose of my CES (Collaborative Explorative Sessions): to offer participants experiences where to think about their learning brain and how the act of creation can participate in the act of discovery. How the act of making their own tool can help them better understand what they need from the tool.
+Write about past sessions & notebooks research process.
-Towards the end, Kealy-Morris describes the term ”communities of practice”: workshops based on active engagement with specific experiences that support learning through social participation (Wenger 1998). Learning is a social experience.
+'''APR-JUN.''' Organise a collective session as well as individual ones.
-'''Crafting communities of practice: the relationship between making and learning by Miriam Gibson (2018).'''
+Making use of the findings to use in the end-result of the design, create a notebook structure that can contain the contents of the sessions and research methods.
-This text analyses the impact of craft on learning and the development of the personhood. As the text above, it analyses the learning types, quoting different educators and philosophers, and the impact of the Art and Craft Movement as well as the Industrial Revolution. The author discusses how craft is a cultural and social expression and how collective and individual development are interconnected.
+== <span style="font-family: Futura; font-size: 21px; color: #23868F;">4 Why do you want to make it? </span> ==
+I am interested in notebooks as a means of creativity, a space for thinking and reasoning, a personal world inside this messy world we live in. I like the idea of getting lost in our own space, how writing and doodling and drawing become part of our living. And, I wonder, can this personal world be the same for everyone, can it be standardised? My theory is that everyone, in different situations, has different needs while using a notebook and that the efficiency (in the sense of: how much we use it, how useful it becomes for us, how we feel free and comfortable with it) can change using different structures.
-Gibson researches on the impact of industrialisation and mass production on the development of self and how the current interest in making shouldn’t be seen as anti-modern and nostalgic but instead, focussing on how, even through the use of the Internet, makers are always trying to gather, whatever the medium. Another point that I feel like touches my practice is how making and learning are subversive practices that make us able to control the narrative ourselves, undermining the dominant social operating system we live in: “through experimentation and experience, an individual edits amplifies and amends the socially prescribed world” says Korn (2013). In a way, they describe “how to change the world through craft”.
+Lori Emerson in the book ''Reading Writing Interfaces'' describes how in recent years design is getting every day more invisible and users are becoming less and less aware of the processes underneath the devices they use: in the same way as with digital interfaces, humans think less and less about what they use or what they do or why or how. We live in an era where we can decide to continuously fulfill our desires, without even understanding or asking ourselves what we really need or want. I assume that many people buy notebooks because they are attracted by the idea around the object, but then they never start or finish them because, still my assumptions, they do not really know what is their need from this object. I would like the meetings to be '''''experiences of discovery'',''' moments where to play with this object, all together, and explore, experiment and discover the possibilities of notebooks, also as part of a research about themselves and their participation in the world. I would like participants to explore their inner self and discover what they need from a notebook, and then, if they are up for it, to discover how they are made and how accessible it can be for everyone to create/edit their own, based on what they're actually looking for. Like ''Notebooks Therapy''.
-At the end, the author describes how learning is a “transformative learning process” and how developing communities of practice encourages social and cognitive transformation. A way to reconnect process and product, to make learning a moment of sharing and not only taking something from someone else’s knowledge.
+In addition, consumerism, capitalism and new technologies "promote efficiency and productivity more than happiness and creativity" (Sanders E. B.-N. and Stappers P. J., 2014), but at the same time the desire of people towards creation and expression of self is emerging again (see social media DIY or etsy.com). Therefore, I feel that using an object that, in a way, is the emblem of productivity, and trying to transform it into a self thought and subversive one is the right direction I want to give to my project.
-'''All the problems will be solved by the masses By Simon Yuill (2008)'''
+== <span style="font-family: Futura; font-size: 21px; color: #23868F;">5 Who can help you and how? </span>==
+Anyone interested in the use of notebooks, anyone that thought at least once about something related to their use of note taking methods and structures; contributors and participants to my workshops; anyone who knows people that would be interested in participate to my sessions as well as who knows locations or organisations that would like to collaborate. Experts in workshops or generative design research would also be of great help.
-''<nowiki>https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/all-problems-notation-will-be-solved-masses</nowiki>''
+== <span style="font-family: Futura; font-size: 21px; color: #23868F;"> 6 Relation to previous practice </span>==
+In the past year as an XPUB student I analysed patterns and disrupted common structures to create new versions of texts. I created a prototype of linguistic patterns and the [https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/theimpossibleprocess/ impossible project website], a tool for vernacular translations. Plus, I used the annotation system created for Special Issue 16 to gather translations from users.
-The part of this article that interests me is the one regarding ''Nature Study Notes'' (1969), a text made out of instructional pieces written by the Scratch Orchestra. Some of them talks about ways of making sound but most of them focus on social interactions and games between the performers: “many of the scores in Nature Study Notes set up small scale ‘operating systems', simple organisational structures that enable other works to be produced within them.”.
+I always tried to involve a public, to explain more than what seems like needed, had in mind the idea that our public should understand and it has been underlined my intent of translating one form of research into an activity/event. One of the results of this has been the crosswords game, both for the launch day and for the publication. I like the idea that an audience can interact with what is shown to them: everyone has different learning methodologies, and it’s our job to put everyone in a situation where they can get the best out of the experience.
-This is something I would like to include in my work, in a way or another. I would like to create a set of instructions that can be used to go through the discovery of self, through the act of making notebooks for individual or collective use.
+In the last trimester, we worked with notation systems, annotation methods and distributive practices, that grasped my interest quite a lot. Miriam and I, for the [https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/SI18/02/recordings/your%20personal%20guide%20to%20making%20sound.mp3 week02 release], produced an instructional piece on “how to make sound”. The proposals I have been part of are also significant: [https://issue.xpub.nl/18/05/ week5 release] was about collective writing and the idea of distributive practice.
-'''Sennett, Richard. The Craftsman. Yale University Press, (2008)'''
+At a certain point during the last trimester, I started to shape my focus seeing a particular interest that I developed since the first day but never kept into account: [[User:FLEM/Notebook|my notebook.]] I started making notebooks a few years ago and has always found the process of creation really interesting. Last year, I have been taking notes on different notebooks throughout the year, made by myself. I then started questioning myself,, my needs and the notebooks I was using. I wanted 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 digital tools, we could also create our personal paper tools.
-“Making is a basic human instinct”
+== <span style="font-family: Futura; font-size: 21px; color: #23868F;"> 7 Relation to a larger context </span>==
+This research is basically based on organising sessions to create a space where to analyse notebooks and to slow down lives, take the time to explore our inner selves and build our version of the object that becomes the expression of ourselves in the world.
-“Making is thinking”
+The first concept can be seen in https://www.notebookstories.com/ (Anon, n.d.), a blog where the owner gathers analysis and advice on every type of notebook on the market.
-A discussion on craftsmanship. Still haven’t found a part that interests me.
+The "Hipster PDA" is "a vastly superior, greatly simplified device for capturing and sharing information" by Merlin Mann (Mann, 2007). The project underlines a bit what I am doing with my own notebooks: finding solutions to make the object more functional for myself and the use I want to give to it. In this case, the author invites people to use his way to solve their problems and this is where my research instead diverts and pushes users to create their own.
-'''THE USE OF PERSONALIZED NOTEBOOK AMONG FIRST SEMESTER STUDENTS OF UiTM ( 2016)'''
+An example of the last concept that I‌ found really inspiring is the work by Kealy-Morris (Kealy-Morris, 2015) where the author created a space for design students to create a personalised surface (paper books) to showcase their artworks. And the research on students of UiTM creating personalised notebooks to help them in their studies (Hamzah et al., 2016).
-Describes how the use of personalised notebooks among students can improve learning process. The authors describe how “The quality of students’ satisfaction and experience depend on the effectiveness of using notebook.”. This paper is basically for educators, but it can be applied also from the point of view of the student itself: students have different learning styles and intelligence strengths that a personalised notebook could accommodate. Notebooks are the place where to insert the information and where to analyse it, helping the “brain making connections between what is experienced (learned) and what that experience (information) means to the learner” (Caine & Klimek, 2005).
+I really enjoyed "the book of notebooks" of Dan Perjovschi (Serban, 2018) because it makes visible how much the use of notebooks becomes part of a practice and a way of thinking and working.
-The text then analyses student-entered learning approach, already present in Malaysian Education since more than 20 years. Personalised notebooks offer similar characteristics and purposes: to promote self-learning process.
+Finally, as an example of beautiful "instructional" publications, I really enjoyed "How to shoplift books" (Horvitz 2019) and "140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth" (Ulrich and Stasinopoulos 2014) that invite users to produce/act as a reaction to the content of the books.
+== <span style="font-family: Futura; font-size: 21px; color: #23868F;">8 References/bibliography </span> ==
+Anon, (n.d.). ''Notebook Stories | Notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, diaries: in search of the perfect page…''. [online] Available at: <nowiki>https://www.notebookstories.com/</nowiki>.
-The authors conclude saying that “Creating a personalised notebook with students could improve students’ note-taking skills as well as help them to organise, review, and reflect on the information in the classroom”. This reconnects to my research as this is what I am discussing about: how personalised notebooks can improve learning. The difference is that they talk from the point of view of the educators and my approach would be even more “self-learning”: students or participants would physically and concretely create their own personalised notebooks.
+Gibson, M. (2019). ''Crafting communities of practice: the relationship between making and learning.'' Int J Technol Des Educ 29, 25–35
-'''Introduction to communities of practice by Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner  (2015)'''
+Hamzah, F., Sharifudin, S., Kamarudin, A. and Azlan, M. (2016). ''The use of personalized notebook among first semester students of UiTM''. National Conference of Research on Language Education 2016.
-In this text, the authors give a general description of the term “communities of practice”. “Communities of practice” are a useful approach to knowing and learning, formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared environment. I am reading about this because I find really fascinating the idea of “learning” together, discovering and sharing each other’s knowledge.
+Horvitz, D. (2019). ''How to Shoplift Books''. Printed Matter Inc., New York.
-“Communities of practice” are composed by the shared domain of interest, the community that engages in discussions and activities, and the practice. Members share experiences, tools, stories, recurring problems etc and try to go through them together. This concept is part of a research on learning theory and learning models, that can reconnect with my own research on how we can shape our learning methodologies. After reading, I understood that “communities of practice” are not something that casually appears because one person is interested, but there is the need of a mutual connection between the participants. I found it interesting and I hope in some way collective learning will be part of my discussion.
+Illich, I.D. (1985). ''Tools for conviviality''. London: Marion Boyars.
-This text also brought me to know the authors that research about social learning and practice, something that sounds like what I am interested about.
+‌Kealy-Morris, E. (2015). ''The bookbinding workshop: Making as collaborative pedagogic practice.'' Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, [online] 14(2), p.119.
-'''Why We Make Things and Why it Matters by Peter Korn (2015)'''
+Korn, P. (2015). ''Why We Make Things and Why It Matters''. David R. Godine Publisher.
-The author gives an outline of his connection with the manual activity and profession of wood furniture maker, but this is not why the book is important to my research.
+Mann, M. (2007). ''Introducing the Hipster PDA''. [online] Available at: https://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-pda.
-What matters is the way the author discusses craftsmanship as engagement with the actions, objects and relationships of ordinary experience, caring about what you do. In the sense that, if you choose to use a notebook for example, you should take care of making it yourself, to repair it yourself and feed it yourself, as you would do with a bike or your last night’s dinner. He provides definitions of the term ''craft,'' born thanks to Morris and Ruskin and the Arts and Crafts Movement. He underlines how “The increase in sophistication has not resulted from any biological evolution of our species; instead, it illustrates the evolution of culture. “.
+Sanders E. B.-N. and Stappers P. J. (2014). ''Convivial design toolbox: generative research for the front end of design''. Amsterdam: Bis.
-The authors at some point says that “work has been stripped of its potential to provide meaning and fulfillment” and I feel the same happened to learning: I feel like this could be changed with social and collective learning, with self-learning and a research inside our heads to understand and listen inside a bit more.
+Șerban, A. (2018). ''MOTTO DISTRIBUTION» Dan Perjovschi: The Book of Notebooks''. [online] Available at: https://www.mottodistribution.com/site/?tag=dan-perjovschi-the-book-of-notebooks.
-Then, the author describes that his “experience has been that the effort to bring something new and meaningful into the world – whether in the arts, the kitchen, or the marketplace – is exactly what generates the sense of meaning and fulfillment for which so many of us yearn so deeply. “ This tells me how much and why the act of making gives the user that sense of meaning that sometimes we lack in contemporary society.
+Wenger-Trayner, E. and Wenger-Trayner, B. (2015) ''An introduction to communities of practice: a brief overview of the concept and its uses.'' [online] Available at: <nowiki>https://www.wenger-trayner.com/introduction-to-communities-of-practice/</nowiki>.
-The author argues how the power to provide spiritual sustenance resides in the object itself, not in its ownership, how it becomes a memory device where the process of creation is inscribed and how objects are important for humans as they “confirm the owners’ narratives of personal identity”: “objects ultimately possess meaning to the extent that they affect or confirm the stories through which a respondent constructs his identity and orders his world. The more central those narratives are, the more meaning the object has. “. I am wondering how much meaning objects can have if the owner creates the object by themselves, so that not only the part of the discovery and acquisition of the object becomes important to the owner and has a reconnection to their life, but also the evolving ideas and beliefs that come along during the process of creation of the object.
+Ulrich H. and Stasinopoulos K. (2021). ''140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth''. Penguin UK.
-To conclude, the author believes that “making is a lifelong project of self-construction and self-determination. “ and that objects “are conduits through which we construct our selves and our world.”
+Yuill, S. (2008). ''All Problems of Notation Will Be Solved By the Masses.'' [online] Mute. Available at: <nowiki>https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/all-problems-notation-will-be-solved-masses</nowiki>.