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=Tentative Title= | ===Tentative Title=== | ||
literature, literacy, illiteracy | |||
===Introduction=== | |||
=Introduction= | |||
There is a lot of research in the occidental world that is involved with innovative technology, (which is great!) trying to make it shinier, faster, smaller, slicker, and generally to improve our lives. | There is a lot of research in the occidental world that is involved with innovative technology, (which is great!) trying to make it shinier, faster, smaller, slicker, and generally to improve our lives. | ||
If we were to take this technology to sub-saharan Africa, innovation will be necessary, not in the sense of recreating already existing technologies, but by adapting them to different realities, in order to produce useful solutions for local development. But all this is oriented toward urban areas and literate communities. | If we were to take this technology to sub-saharan Africa, innovation will be necessary, not in the sense of recreating already existing technologies, but by adapting them to different realities, in order to produce useful solutions for local development. But all this is oriented toward urban areas and literate communities. | ||
How can we apply this to rural zones and illiterate citizens? | How can we apply this to rural zones and illiterate citizens? | ||
using basics (primitive/simplified) technology | using basics (primitive/simplified) technology | ||
=What are you working on now?= | ===What are you working on now?=== | ||
Before even attempting to do something in the aim to ‘help’ or ‘improve’ I would like to research, inside out, what it is to be able to read, what does it mean not to read? all the possibilities of reading, reading is decoding, is reading also understanding? | |||
related to the thematic week books were talked about a lot, publishing, something is published in order to be read by a public. | |||
= | ===What do you want it to be?=== | ||
===How do you plan to make it?=== | |||
=Why do you want to make it?= | ===Why do you want to make it?=== | ||
===Who can help you and how?=== | |||
===Relation to previous practice=== | |||
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=Relation to previous practice= | |||
I took the idea of hyperlinks to its very primitive state, to get a better understanding with reference to Vannevar Bush | I took the idea of hyperlinks to its very primitive state, to get a better understanding with reference to Vannevar Bush | ||
'''PHYL''' | '''PHYL''' | ||
what - PHYL (Personal Hyper Linker) is a personal reference library in the form of a mechanical machine. The user must select the data he would like to store in it, based on his interests. The data is stored on microfilm which is then inserted into a roll underneath one of the four screens and can be interchangeable. The information is linked from one screen to another in numerical order. | what - PHYL (Personal Hyper Linker) is a personal reference library in the form of a mechanical machine. The user must select the data he would like to store in it, based on his interests. The data is stored on microfilm which is then inserted into a roll underneath one of the four screens and can be interchangeable. The information is linked from one screen to another in numerical order. | ||
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why - Contrary to the internet, where data gateways are open to all, this machine allows data to be input solely by the user, to be able to control and select ones content. It becomes a personal library rather than a collective one. It explores the evolution of reading printed material, taking the idea of hyperlinks back to basics. | why - Contrary to the internet, where data gateways are open to all, this machine allows data to be input solely by the user, to be able to control and select ones content. It becomes a personal library rather than a collective one. It explores the evolution of reading printed material, taking the idea of hyperlinks back to basics. | ||
===Relation to a larger context=== | |||
= | ===References=== | ||
=References= | |||
INNOVATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA | INNOVATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA | ||
http://www.digitalmcd.com/mcd71-digitale-afrique-les-versions-francaise-et-anglaise-au-format-e-book-sont-disponibles/ | http://www.digitalmcd.com/mcd71-digitale-afrique-les-versions-francaise-et-anglaise-au-format-e-book-sont-disponibles/ | ||
A History of Reading - Alberto Manguel | |||
How to talk about books you haven’t read - Pierre Bayard | |||
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X41aZlw503U | |||
Revision as of 12:19, 16 November 2015
Tentative Title
literature, literacy, illiteracy
Introduction
There is a lot of research in the occidental world that is involved with innovative technology, (which is great!) trying to make it shinier, faster, smaller, slicker, and generally to improve our lives. If we were to take this technology to sub-saharan Africa, innovation will be necessary, not in the sense of recreating already existing technologies, but by adapting them to different realities, in order to produce useful solutions for local development. But all this is oriented toward urban areas and literate communities. How can we apply this to rural zones and illiterate citizens? using basics (primitive/simplified) technology
What are you working on now?
Before even attempting to do something in the aim to ‘help’ or ‘improve’ I would like to research, inside out, what it is to be able to read, what does it mean not to read? all the possibilities of reading, reading is decoding, is reading also understanding? related to the thematic week books were talked about a lot, publishing, something is published in order to be read by a public.
What do you want it to be?
How do you plan to make it?
Why do you want to make it?
Who can help you and how?
Relation to previous practice
I took the idea of hyperlinks to its very primitive state, to get a better understanding with reference to Vannevar Bush PHYL what - PHYL (Personal Hyper Linker) is a personal reference library in the form of a mechanical machine. The user must select the data he would like to store in it, based on his interests. The data is stored on microfilm which is then inserted into a roll underneath one of the four screens and can be interchangeable. The information is linked from one screen to another in numerical order. how - Influenced from Vannevar Bush’s Memmex, one of the first ideas of accessing links with code (hyperlinks) and seeing them through screens. I built the machine from wood, plexiglass and vinyl for the screens, a bit of 3D printing for the rolling mechanism and LED lights. why - Contrary to the internet, where data gateways are open to all, this machine allows data to be input solely by the user, to be able to control and select ones content. It becomes a personal library rather than a collective one. It explores the evolution of reading printed material, taking the idea of hyperlinks back to basics.
Relation to a larger context
References
INNOVATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA http://www.digitalmcd.com/mcd71-digitale-afrique-les-versions-francaise-et-anglaise-au-format-e-book-sont-disponibles/ A History of Reading - Alberto Manguel How to talk about books you haven’t read - Pierre Bayard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X41aZlw503U