Autonomous Archive
Main questions
- Why is the Poortgebouw valuable to the city?
- Who is it important for? In what ways?
- How has this changed through the years?
- How can it be more valuable for more people?
- 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
Research Action Points (Content)
- Make a list of the available archives, where to find them, how to visit them > Joca, finish up 28/09
- Make a list of questions we want to ask > Angeliki, finish up 02/10
- Make a list of people we want to interview (inside & outside the PG) > Tash, finish up 02/10
- Prepare questions for the meeting at the Poortgebouw 02/10 > Everyone, finish up 01/10
- City archive recon > Joca, Alex & Alice 29/09
- Make a list of topics and search terms for our visit to both City Archive & PG Archive > Everyone, finish up 01/10
- Define main questions of our publication first draft done
- Research interview methods of
- Linda Malherbe (Verhalenhuis Belvedere) email sent
- Teana Boston-Mammah (Storytelling from the City) email sent
- Siebe Thissen = specialist in "alternative" histories in Rotterdam email sent
- From this, create our own interview methodology & ethics
- Investigate the conditions and practical aspects of the interviews e.g. recording technology, email, skype (their permission to edit)
- Research glossary of terms & methodology to collect terms that are used in the different narratives
- Find out how we can collect / photograph / copy these materials
- Organize the information we collected into the different narratives
- Make a first draft of the structure of the publication (chapters etc)
- Curate the information, to see what's most relevant and important
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
Design Research
Mood
Pad hell
- https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/p/specialissue-2017-09-18
- The Automonomous Archive (Franc, Giulia, Max discussion) https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/p/theautonomousarchive
- Project text for outreach https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/p/blurb_PG_autonomous_archive
- Glossary