Autonomous Archive/hand-curated

Main questions

• Why/How is the Poortgebouw valuable to the city?
  • Who is it important for? In what ways?
  • How has this changed through the years?
  • How can our publication add to this?
• Why is the Poortgebouw worth archiving?
  • What is the situation of the PG today? Is there a sense of urgency?
  • Why is the autonomous archive important?
  • How different are the narratives inside / outside the PG?

Planning

Action Points (Content)

• Define main questions of our publication first draft done
• Make a list of the available archives, where to find them, how to visit them > Joca, finish up 28/09 done
• Make a draft list of questions we want to ask > Angeliki, finish up 02/10 done
• Make a draft list of people we want to interview (inside & outside the PG) > Tash, finish up 02/10 done
• Prepare questions for the meeting at the Poortgebouw 02/10 > Everyone, finish up 01/10 done
• City archive recon > Joca, Alex & Alice, meetup at 11:00 at the Archive (Hofdijk 651, Rotterdam) 29/09 done Pad
• Make a list of topics & search terms for our visit to both City & PG Archive (add them to this pad ) > Everyone, finish up 01/10 done
• Finalise list of questions we want to ask > 05/10 done
• Finalise list of people we want to interview (inside & outside the PG) > 05/10 done
• Visit city archive, scan more documents > 05/10 Joca, done
• Write draft emails, contact people we want to interview > Tash, 06/10 done
• Write email to Giulia about interviewing inhabitants on Saturday > Alice, 06/10 done
• Visit HNI archive Pad with items to request done
• Send email to Katia from HNI. Info archive + interview request. Mail members Feijenoord neighbourhoodcouncil -> Joca done
• Investigate the conditions and practical aspects of the interviews e.g. recording technology, email, skype (their permission to edit) > 06/10 done
• Create our own interview methodology & ethics. Pad > 06/10 done
• Contact PG inhabitants and set up interviews > 09/10 email sent to Giulia
• Research interview methods of
  • Laura (Verhalenhuis Belvedere) done
  • Siebe Thissen = specialist in "alternative" histories in Rotterdam done
  • Teana Boston-Mammah (Storytelling from the City) email sent
• Transcribe Siebe Thissen interview Interview 05/10 > Tash, Alice & Angeliki 09/10 done
• Transcribe Cesare Peeren Interview Pad done
• Transcribe Laura Verhalenhuis interview Interview 09/10 > Tash, Elisa, Angeliki done
• Transcribe Peter and Christine interview Interview 11/10 > Tash, Alice done
• Conduct & transcribe Lidewij Tummers interview Interview 13/10 > Joca, Angeliki
• Conduct & transcribe Marina Otero interview Interview 13/10 > Tash done
• Transcribe Kraakkafe interview Pad > Tash & Joca done
• Conduct & transcribe Katia from HNI Interview 13/10 > Joca, Angeliki done
• Transcribe Giulia interview Interview 14/10 done
• Transcribe Jere interview Interview 14/10 done
• Transcribe Rianne interview Interview 14/10
• Conduct & transcribe Ramon Mosterd interview Interview 18/10
• Conduct and transcribe Edward Dee interview Pad

• Make a first draft of the structure of the publication: CHAIR, TABLE, BED done
• Research glossary of terms & methodology to collect terms that are used in the different narratives
• Conduct interviews > 23/10
• Curate the information, to see what's most relevant and important
• Organize the information we collected into the different chapters
• Decide methodology on treating / photographing / copying these materials

Research Action Points (Design)

• PG online research
  • images
  • wiki
  • videos
  • social media
• PG material research
  • posterwall
  • archive
  • architecture
  • who did their graphics before?
• PG inhabitants discussion
  • do they want a visual identity?
• references to other designers
  • design & politics
• printing
  • paper
  • binding
  • printer
  • budget
  • technique
• typography

Production Action Points

• layout
• typesetting
• reviewing
• find a printing technique
• find a printer
• prototype
• actual printing

EN summaries of archive items in Dutch

Autonomous_Archive/hand-curated/Summaries_archive_documents

Design Research

Mood

Moodboard

Layout

• Overlapping elements

• Overprinting existing material

• work with (negative) space / moving / influencing spaces

Typography

• Edit an existing open source typeface?

• use an open-source typeface

Book-Object

Paper

• Ordered Samples from Antalis (Antalis Chromolux (120g)) | Link to Antalis – Samples arrived

Binding

• Glue binding easy and cheap at Publication Station • Thread Binding complicated to do on our own (time-intensive, less accurate if self-made)

How much?

Book–Binding 200 pieces thread-stiched: 900€

Scheduling Design & Production

• 9. Oct – Drafts / Concepts
• 9. Oct – Final outcome presentation: 3 concepts
• 10. Oct – 13. Oct Layout / Type drafts
• 10. Oct – 13. Oct Correction about the final outcome
• 13. Oct Decision on layout
• 16. Oct Printing request / Budget plan
• 16. Oct – 30. Oct Prototyping book + layout
• 30. Oct – Decision on object (paper, binding…)
• 30.Oct – 8. Nov Layout / Typesetting
• 4.Nov – Last Deadline: Editorial report rev.1
• 4.Nov – 5.Nov – Implementation 1
• 6.Nov – Last Deadline: Editorial report rev.2
• 6.Nov – 8.Nov – Implementation 2 / Last layout changes
• 8. Nov & 9.Nov – detail typography
• 10.Nov – Write printing data
• 10. Nov – last deadline passing for print
• 6. Dec – publication launch