User:FLEM/2.0

.my notebook is the place where everything is // i like to annotate in there what get stuck into my brain for one reason or another (//not all the thoughts are my exclusive property)

stuff that comes a bit from my thoughts and some from my paper notebook, but in a timeline order to keep everything organised.., my real researchlog is somewhere else...............

19.09.22

I am starting a new page on my wiki to start the new year being sure everything i'm doing will be documented and not forgotten.. my brain is like a broken sponge sometimes

We had a first prototyping class today, started to organise our thoughts around what we think we could possibly focus on for the next 10 months, this is what I summed up [from https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB2-Mondays-1]

KEYWORDS: text, translation, playfulness, the sociality of text, books, libraries, distributive practice, collectivity, text, share, tools, annotation methods, modularity, anti-standardisation, reading, writing.

What is kept/lost in the process of translation/of annotation/

Create a temporal community for temporal archives and temporal (learning-together) workshops for temporal research: 

The archive dil(emma): what happens to notebooks when they’re full? [see diaries archives]
Create a temporal archive by collecting notes that are not being used anymore, to be seen 
Can this open a new life for forgotten notes?

Collection of sample notebook prototypes + Hybrid/digital prototypes: online tools to create layouts, print instructions, but also to play with forgotten  texts

I want 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 tools online, 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. 

Someone said (Brendan Howell): our collective work is having new ideas to find better alternatives to th(e ma)instream ways that shut down every imagination chance, they offer the “best” way. Do it in a different way. + "Thus, throughout, I demonstrate how a certain thread of experimental poetry has always been engaged with questioning the media by which it is made and through which it is consumed” [Lori emerson - interfaces] —>  the medium is the message (mcluhan)

SUMUP_ what did we come up withhhhhh?????????????????????

this is what came out as a common ground between all our thoughts:

< workshops / audience participation

< prototyping platforms

< research on unknown stuff

< how to intrude commercial practices and BREAK THEM

< publishing practices

< studying the intentions of a design format

< questioning standards

M&Ms sessions - ideas

When the M&Ms sessions have been described someone has to propose something for next week 26.09.22 and I have a strong need to start sharing my ideas about notebooks and see how other human beings react to it.. I need this especially if i want to organise workshops, so in the next week I will work on how this session could function in a way that it's helpful both for participants and for me and my research development.

Here some ideas I got yesterday:

Two by two in pairs, the notebook is mutually analyzed

The participants discuss and write down the results of the conversation on individual sheets - >> write questions (at least three) and try to answer them on a piece of paper

Notebook with tape where I attach all the single sheets together of all the workshops that I will do and in the end I will have a nice folder

Experimenting is sometimes hyperbole and exacerbating a concept so it also means being able to create a notebook that is no longer functional but concretely describes the meaning of the desire or need

The result of the workshop is the analysis of what the participants want, the comparison with each other, exchange information, think imagine experimenting with the limit of paper. How can this limit be disrupted? --> kim talked about disrupting standard formats!

Thesis/Grad project - ideas

Create a temporal archive: what happens if I put everything (notebooks) together for a while? And then what to do with them?

Create an xpub notebook archive for consultation

Interpretation and comparison of annotation on the same content

20.09.22

Talked with Michael about next year and looked at old publications..

I liked: the work by Loredana Bontempi on Ddump, recycling in the digital context because it talks about what can come out from what has been erased on laptops and made me think how can I research why some notes become useless? can they be recycled? I also thought about recycled translations at some point last year

Plus, today I delivered to Supi the first notebook kit: An adjustable and editable notebook with included tape and papers for continuation

The idea is that this type of notebooks allows the user to build it up easily as their needs come over and adjusting and editing while using it and not being forced to stay in a standardised area for standardised notebook users.

M&Ms sessions - ideas

Write an example list of needs that I have, so participants can understand better what is this about: a notebook where to write my thoughts (need to be small and available at all times), a notebook with a drawing section, for uni&research notetaking, plus additional random topics like ideas or bills counts..etc --> how do i include all of this in one notebook?

Present Supi's case (ask if she's up for it)

Thesis/Grad project - ideas

The thesis will be a modular notebook where the reader can move inside [or that the reader can build by themselves] from place to place, reconnecting content.

21.09.22

Made a prototype for chae (a multicolumned notebook: could we fold it more?)

Officially opened the notebooks (temporary) archive

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M&Ms sessions - ideas

Trying to figure out M&Ms session..

As it's an explorative session, it's mostly going to be me asking them to react to my questions

I want them to start reasoning.. can we also fold paper?

ask to fold a piece of paper, or to keep it in their hands during the session and start reasoning on it

print questions on little cards?

talk in couples? or all together?

last question is about "what to do with what's left" that will lead to chae's session

to do:

<print questions on cards to be spread on the table

<selection of paper to be spread on the table to be picked at the beginning

plan:

[throw both cards and papers on the table]

Hello, this is me

.idea workshop described

.pick a piece of paper, ask to fold, or to keep it in their hands during the session and start reasoning on it, on its spaciality

.ask to pick some questions from the table and start discussing together, everyone can say their opinion on one or more questions

.last question is about "what to do with what's left" that will lead to chae's session

22.09.22

graduate seminarrrr

we're presenting each other's works