User:Mania/Thesis outline

Making books involves collecting, selecting, linking, forming connections, highlighting analogies and patters. Can a book have a special place in a way we perceive our surroundings?  Books as shared resources that help us observe, see differently, and encourage us to question reality.

I would like to explore different approaches to storytelling. Explore hidden structures by working with tools and mannuals for building a narrative from fragments / modules to embrace multiple perspectives.

book

that

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bound,

allows for rearrangement and bringing back to the front. Imagining alternative ways of transfromation.

How rearrangement of shapes of content can result in other ways of telling stories?

Key words:

- plain text - formats - annotating documents - interlinked elements - references to other texts - collection - how it relates to positioning the publication in a certain context and audience? -element of surprise (observational cinema) - fragmenting - tools

- modules - breaking up into smaller parts. Repurposing. Reimagining

- Modularity - im intrested in the modularity as a way to look at things in a new way, allowing to repurpose a d reimagine. Observations in a public space is a big source of inspiration in that case, to see how things are combined together and change their function.

M  O  D  U  L  A  R  I  T  Y  -  This is what is at the back of my mind. This is the small element that sparks my curiosity.

Questions

How tools shape what we see and what is a role of cataloging those fragments of reality and rearranging their order? What connections and patterns can become visible?

Explore how objects can be used to challenge our perception and expose overlooked aspects.

How using everyday materials (like paper) can be used to reveal hidden aspects of the city and create new forms of engagement with the city?

How can a publishing practice allow multiple voices or perspectives to coexist celebrating unruliness?

How can publishing practices create networks of exchange, where publications are not just produced for consumption but become part of ongoing conversations and relationships?

How the element of surprise influence perception and understanding?

How meaning is constructed when traditional legibility or narrative is removed?

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A) What do you want to write about ? Think about what you want to exploreand how do you want to tell your story

pool of ideas:

- Why I want to read a city

- Places camera / tool takes you

- Changing assumptions throug observation or thanks to observation. Changing your understanding of a place. Surprices that are revealed thanks to observing

- Scripts vs non linear narrative (inspired by observational cinema - there is no objectyive truth)

- Participation

B) Outline 3 key issues you want to explore

1. Exploration of how we perceive our surroundings.

What it means to be an expert observer

2. What kind of city we accually want? Larning city - urban space as a space activating diffrent ways of knowing, learning and being together. City as a space for (un)learning practices.

3. Caring and participating through self publishing

Hierarchy and dominant norm - How knowledge production can be more horizontal? De-hierarchicalization of knowledge - cultural exchanges, more intuitive langueage, using text, images to present other narratives Collective creations

How it connects……..

One question and turn that into 3 sub topics:

How I can connect to the city by reading it with others?