User:Mania/Thesis outline

Session 4 Project proposal

1 What do you want to make? Is it clear what is being proposed? If not, what could be done to improve this?

 Nadal chcę pracować nad magazynem, albo jakąś formą publikacji/ ksiązki. Podoba mi się idea magazyn bo stanowi kontynuację, a oprócz tego zorganizowanie open call i włączneie innych do tego magazyn było by dla mnie świetnym wyzwaniem. Chcę pracować na czymś co będę mogła kontynuować po zakonczeni studiów. Nad projektem który przyblioży mnie do innych zine lovers i zine makers, nad magazynem który będzie mógł wędrować po różnych eventach zinów.  

Chciałabym stworzyc do tego stronę internetową, coś bardzo praktycznego, dzięki czemu nauczę się też pracy z css. Wyobrazam sobie ze ta strona internetowa była by zbiorem fragmentow nad którymi pracuje.

I still want to work on a magazine or some form of publication/book. I like the idea of ​​the magazine because it is a continuation, and besides, organizing an open call and including others in the magazine would be a great challenge for me. I want to work on something that I can continue after I graduate. A project that will bring me closer to other zine lovers and zine makers, a magazine that will be able to travel around various zine events. I would like to create a website for this, something very practical, thanks to which I will also learn how to work with CSS. I imagine this website would be a collection of fragments I'm working on.

2 How do you plan to make it? Do the steps proposed sound feasible? Are there any steps omitted?

Straciłam rachubę czasu w moim początkowym planie. byłam zbyt zajęta panikowaniem i płakaniem. Pierwsze 3 miesiace przewidziałam na eksperymentowanie z różnymi narzedziami do obserwowania. Zbudowalam camere obscura z mojego pokoju, kartonu i tasmy, papierowy pop -up który odsłania fragmenty miasta, intensywnie używałam lornetki jako narzedzia do czytania miasta. Dużo fotografowałam moją ulicę i fragmentowałam zebrane zdjęcia. Do public moment zamierzam skupic się na mojej ulicy i zebrac jak najwiecej fragmentow jak mogę. Bawie się kolazem, cieciem zdjec, rysowaniem po nich, reorganizowaniem zebranych elementow, zarówno zdjec jak i tekstu. Po public moment zakladam ze znajdę rózne punkty połączen i patterns that are emerging.

Mając to jako baze będę kontynowac z magazynem, zbierajac narzedzia do fragmentowania i fragmenty w całość.

Następnie open call

Chciałąbym zorganizować cos w stylu warsztatow, albo jenorazowego klubu, gdzie mieszamy fragmenty i słowa i razem kładamy w nową całość.

Design of the magazine and print

Website

I lost track of the time in my initial plan. I was too busy panicking and crying. I spent the first 3 months experimenting with various observation tools. I built a camera obscura from my room, cardboard and tape, a paper pop-up that reveals parts of the city, and I intensively used binoculars as a tool for reading the city. I photographed my street a lot and fragmented the collected photos. For now, I'm going to focus on my street and collect as many pieces as I can. He plays with collage, cutting photos, drawing on them, and reorganizing collected elements, both photos and text. After a public moment I assume that I will find various connection points and patterns that are emerging. With this as a base I will continue with the magazine, gathering the fragmentation tools and the pieces together. Then an open call I would like to organize something like a workshop or a one-time club, where we mix fragments and words and put them together into a new whole. Design of the magazine and print Website

3 What is your timetable? Does the timing of the project’s realisation sound feasible?

4 Why do you want to make it? Is the motivation for undertaking the project clear? If not, how can this be improved?

What spark me to make this connection between reading a city and fragmenting? Żaden obraz miasta nie jest skonczony, widzimy tylko częsci. Zestawiając ze sobą tak różne fragmenty, możemy uchwycic ten kontrast, zgrzyt, napiecie.

What spark me to make this connection between reading a city and fragmenting? No image of the city is complete, we only see parts. By juxtaposing such different fragments, we can capture the contrast, the friction, the tension.

5 Who can help you and how? Are there people in your network that might be of help in developing this project?

De Boog - kochani ludzie którzy kochaja robic rzeczy wspolnie i sa tez print enthusiasts.

6 Relation to previous practice: Is it clear how this project builds upon work done before

7 Relation to a larger context: Is it clear how the work is embedded in a broader context of art works, theory, etc.? 8 References/bibliography: Are there any references or sources you feel are connected to this project? Thesis 1 Intro aka WHAT do you want to research: Is it clear what this text is about, what is its central research question? 2 For each proposed chapter: Is it clear what this chapter will look into and is it clear how it relates and works towards answering the central research question? 3 Method aka HOW will you go about answering your research question: Is there a choice of research method and if so, is it a good fit with the central research question? 4 Mode of address aka HOW you want to tell your story.: Is there a choice for a mode of address and if so, does it fit the topic and method of the thesis?

3 Key Texts

• Any recommendations of related works of art, publications, games, literature, theory, etc. are most welcome :)

Related works / inspiration - https://www.kellianderson.com/books/planetarium.html - Bruno Munari's books

French new wave cinema (especially Agnes Varda) • hand cameras • Techniques included fragmented, discontinuous editing, and long takes that allowed actors to explore a scene. • The combination of realism, subjectivity, and commentary

LOT-EK https://lot-ek.com/33496733

Rapid Prototypes Do you see the connection between the gestures towards the project, the proposed project and the thesis outline? Any feedback here is welcome, from spontaneous and intuitive associations, to feedback on strengths in the sketches and potential synthesis between the three (prototype, thesis, proposal).

deconstrction reconstrction in both text

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 to fragment and mannuals for building a narrative from fragments / modules to embrace multiple perspectives.

Play with deconstructing and reconstructing from fragments embracing multiple perspectives, cinematic references, demands for another possible form of urban life.

book

that

is

not

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:

Seeing, moving, relating, grabbing, fragmenting, publishing

- interlinked elements - collection -context and audience -element of surprise (observational cinema) - fragmenting - tools - Relational - Conversational

- Non-linear

- 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.

 d e c o n s t r u c t i o n  and r e c o n s t r u c t i o n 

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?