Last year Proboscis collaborated with a group of local people and a community run centre (PAG) in Pallion, Sunderland to co-create and co-design a sustainable ‘knowledge network’ that could help people respond to the bewildering array of changes taking place in the benefits system. Our project became the Pallion Ideas Exchange (PAGPIE) – weekly meetings and [...]
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Workbooks for community knowledge networks
February 4th, 2013 No Comments
Tags: collaboration · community · eNotebooks · Pallion
City As Material Set
March 18th, 2011 No Comments
We’ve just received the complete set of 10 City As Material books back from the printers and next week we’ll be designing and making the special slipcases to hold them together and collect them into their limited edition (50 copies). The set will go on sale from the 31st March 2011 via the proboscis online [...]
Tags: city as material · collaboration · eBooks · inspiring uses · pitch in & publish · print on demand
CCI’s Library of Traces
February 21st, 2011 No Comments
Back in September Frederik posted a case study of Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination‘s use of bookleteer. They’ve continued using it as a creative and documentary resource, and in doing so have created a Library of Traces – a series of eBooks which enable both participants in their professional development workshops, and others, to follow the [...]
Tags: collaboration · education · examples · inspiration · inspiring uses · learning · making · workshop
Holiday memories in your back pocket
February 17th, 2011 No Comments
Hi, I’m Radhika, the Marketing Assistant at Proboscis. You’ll see me pop up weekly, as I’ll be writing posts on ideas and suggestions for using Bookleteer in new and inventive ways. Take a look at my first idea… Going away this summer?? It’s a great feeling, once you’ve booked that holiday and start counting down [...]
Tags: bookleteering · examples · inspiration · suggestions
Some Recent PPOD books
October 8th, 2010 1 Comment
September was a busy month here at Proboscis and on bookleteer: we sent seven books to be printed via the PPOD service as well as 10 different StoryCubes. The range of publications was very broad, from books about exhibitions and art projects to a book in Arabic about a major archaeological excavation in Sudan and [...]
Tags: bookleteering · eBooks · eNotebooks · examples · inspiring uses · ppod · print on demand · StoryCubes
Tangled Threads eBook
September 24th, 2010 No Comments
Proboscis have been invited to make a film that will be presented as part of a Leonardo/MIT mobile digital exhibition curated by Jeremy Hight. The film will provide an abstracted overview of Proboscis’ themes and projects over the past few years and will be made and illustrated by Alice. However, the process of making the [...]
Tags: eBook · inspiration · making
eBooks at Inspiring Digital Engagement Festival
September 21st, 2010 No Comments
As I wrote last week, I have been co-organising the Inspiring Digital Engagement Festival in Sheffield and I wanted to make an eBook for it to try to capture participants feelings and views around digital technologies, digital inclusion, engagement and the festival itself. Thanks to Giles, these eBooks were printed through bookleteer’s PPOD service and ready [...]
Tags: eBooks · eNotebooks · evaluation · examples · feedback · inspiring uses
Case Study – Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination
September 1st, 2010 3 Comments
My first encounter as part of this research was with Ruth Sapsed in early July in Cambridge to chat about her work with the eBooks. Ruth is the director of Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination (CCI). She was trained as a psychologist and researcher. According to the CCI website, their approach is to “place the people [...]
Tags: education · inspiration · inspiring uses · learning
ScrapBooks as Tangible Souvenirs
August 31st, 2010 No Comments
… And ways to document events and projects A few days ago we published a ScrapBook made at the Vintage Festival for a project Proboscis is participating in called Graffito – a collaborative iPhone/iPad app that lets people draw on a shared canvas. It was used in the Warehouse tent (which had a 1980s theme) [...]
Tags: drawing · eNotebooks · examples · experiments · inspiration · making
Excavations in the Temple Precinct of Dangeil, Sudan
August 5th, 2010 No Comments
This recently published eBook by Julie Anderson and Salah Mohamed Ahmed describes the progress of the Berber-Abidiya Archaeological Project in Dangeil, Sudan. Julie is Assistant Keeper of Sudanese and Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum and Salah works for the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Sudan and the eBook was written for a conference [...]
Tags: bookleteer · eBooks · examples · ppod · print on demand
Cosmo china
August 3rd, 2010 No Comments
Last week Proboscis got back a delivery of PPOD books commissioned by Cosmo China in Bloomsbury, London. The book commemorates 20 years of Cosmo China and its artists. The shop was begun by Josie Firmin and Christopher Stangeways and produces handpainted ceramics. During it’s lifetime three of Josie’s sisters have painted china for Cosmo (and [...]
James Bridle: Bookcubes and bookleteer API
July 26th, 2010 2 Comments
A set of Bookcubes generated using the bookleteer API James Bridle of booktwo.org was one of the participants at the Pitch Up and Publish: Augmented Reading a couple of weeks ago, and he talked a little about the idea of books as symbols and the related BookCube project he’d done using the bookleteer API. Here, [...]
Tags: API · augmented · book · bookleteer · cube · electronic · examples · inspiration
Bev Carter: Umulogho -> Watford
July 14th, 2010 1 Comment
Schoolchildren in Umulogho; Schoolchildren in Watford Writing yesterday about the importance of the tangible paper form of bookleteer reminded me of the ‘A Little Something About Me‘ project by Bev Carter carried out in 2007 – 2009 as part of Proboscis’ Generator Case Studies Residency Programme. Bev wanted to make connections between her local school [...]
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Printed Ethnographic Notebooks
June 25th, 2010 1 Comment
Last summer I collaborated with James Leach (Anthropology Dept, University of Aberdeen), Lissant Bolton and Liz Bonshek (Ethnographic Dept, British Museum) to help document the visit to London of two people from Reite village, Papua New Guinea – Porer Nombo and Pinbin Sisau. Porer and Pinbin had been invited to come to the British Museum to [...]
Tags: eNotebooks · examples · inspiration · ppod · print on demand
Introducing Karen
May 17th, 2010 No Comments
Hi, Karen here*. Recently, Giles invited me to take some time and explore the potential of bookleteer. And I’m very happy to do so. I’ve known bookleteer for a while now and have made my share of eBooks and storycubes while I was working with Proboscis . Anyway, I have a confession. In Proboscis studio [...]
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