Autonomous Archive/hand-curated

From XPUB & Lens-Based wiki

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)

Printing-test

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