This Saturday, the 10th of September, we’ll be running a book-making workshop at the New Cross People’s Library, now reopened after its closure by the council in May, and currently staffed by local volunteers, aided by Bold Vision. We’re asking participants to bring lists and photos of their favourite books, to create a set of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'collaboration'
Book-Making Workshop at New Cross People’s Library – 10th September
September 7th, 2011 No Comments
Tags: bookleteer · collaboration · eBooks · events · library · workshop
Diffusion Archive Highlight – City As Material: An Overview
August 3rd, 2011 No Comments
A document of the five City As Material events we ran in London last year, this eBook collects the blog posts penned after each event, a selection of photographs taken, as well as an introduction to the project and our motives for undertaking it. Created in place of an individual eBook for Sonic Geographies, due [...]
Tags: bookleteer · bookreader · city as material · collaboration · diffusion · eBooks · inspiration · inspiring uses · pitch in & publish
Diffusion Archive Highlight: Ancient Lights, City Shadows
June 17th, 2011 No Comments
A collaborative eBook produced as a result of our City As Material: Skyline event, Ancient Lights, City Shadows features mixed media collected on the day and material we were inspired to create after our wander through the city. Adorning the cover is one of Martin Fidler’s intricate skyline drawings, opposed with an ambiguous photograph of [...]
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Diffusion Archive Highlight: Deep City
May 10th, 2011 No Comments
As part of the City As Material series, after being our special guest for the Underside event and helping to co-ordinate the resulting collaborative eBook, Layered, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino was asked to produce an individual effort. She created Deep City, an attempt to “extract the individual elements we see in cities over and over again, to [...]
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City as Material: Norwich
April 7th, 2011 No Comments
Tim Wright joined Giles and I for our second City As Material outside of London on Tuesday, as we took a trip to Norwich, where Tim spent his early years. The train from London seemed distinctly commuter-free compared to our journey to Bristol, with only a handful of people in our carriage. We bagged table [...]
Tags: bookleteer · city as material · collaboration · diffusion · eBooks · inspiration · making · norwich · StoryCubes
City As Material: Bristol
March 30th, 2011 1 Comment
Yesterday, Giles and I took a trip to Bristol to meet Andrew Hunter from Dodolab, for our first City As Material event outside of London. Rising early to jostle with commuters, gazing out the windows as London slipped away, we found ourselves wishing the grey clouds starting to form would soon depart. Giles recounted some [...]
Tags: bookleteer · bristol · city as material · collaboration · inspiration
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 [...]
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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
Two new eBooks for City As Material
February 11th, 2011 No Comments
This week we’ve published the last two of four commissioned eBooks from our guests at the City As Material events : Tim Wight’s The 2nd book of Urizen and Simon Pope’s Skylines and Sightlines. These add to the other two already published by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Deep City and Ben Eastop, River Gap. Haz and I [...]
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Commission a local City As Material event
January 10th, 2011 1 Comment
Reflecting back on the 5 City As Material events of last Autumn, we’re really pleased both with the reception of the events themselves by participants and that of the resulting publications with friends and colleagues. Over the next few weeks we’ll be publishing the personal contributions of the guests (Tim Wright, Ben Eastop and Simon [...]
Tags: bookleteering · collaboration · making · pitch in & publish · workshop
Bookleteer and the Museum of Childhood
December 14th, 2010 1 Comment
Hi! My name is Christina Wanambwa and I joined the Proboscis team last month as an Education Assistant. I’ll be involved in a range of projects linked to bookleteer, but I will be working mostly on Education Projects, namely our new partnership with Soho Parish Primary School. Part of my role also includes going on regular [...]
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City As Material: Skyline
November 15th, 2010 1 Comment
Last Friday we held our third Pitch In & Publish: City As Material event; the topic -”Skyline”. Taking part was our special guest, Simon Pope, as well as Giles Lane, Martin Fidler, Katharine Willis, plus our new addition to the Proboscis team, Radhika Patel, and myself. Meeting at Leadenhall Market, we listened as Simon explained [...]
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City As Material : River
November 4th, 2010 2 Comments
Last Friday we held our second Pitch In & Publish: City As Material event on the topic of River. We met at Hermitage Moorings in Wapping (where one of the participants is a founder member) and spent a short time introducing ourselves and our interests in the topic. Taking part were Anne Lydiat, Aleaxandra McGlynn, [...]
Tags: bookleteering · collaboration · pitch in & publish · river · sharing · walking
Case Study – Gillian Cowell
September 15th, 2010 2 Comments
This week’s eBook case study involves the work of researcher and community education worker Gillian Cowell. Gillian first encountered the eBooks online while doing research for her masters degree. She was interested in finding online tools help her to “capture data in a more interesting way for local people.” She was also hoping to turn [...]
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Case Study – Michelle Kasprzak
September 8th, 2010 No Comments
Last week, I posted the first case study as part of my research on how Proboscis’ design for eBooks is being used. For me, CCI was a great example of how the eBooks are appropriated and used as part of a cultural organisation’s activities. Although Trail of Imagination and Curiosity was only one example of [...]
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