Why make?
Over the last few weeks as I’ve been researching and writing about the pop-up books, flip books, cut-out books, electronic books and so on I’ve been wondering what it is that drives so many people to...
View ArticleOh! The Places You’ll Go!
My original time for working on bookleteer was up last week so I thought I’d write a little round-up of my highlights of that time. I set out to think about books-as-objects and explore the tangible...
View ArticleIntroducing the eBook Observer
Proboscis have commissioned me to do some research into the eBooks and how they have been used in the past by all sorts of different people and organisations. As part of the research, I created an...
View ArticleCase Study – Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination
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)....
View ArticleeBook Observer – some early thoughts
A recurring concern that has come up in the three interviews to date is the question of feedback. In all three cases I’ve presented to date, respondents told me that it was difficult to collect...
View ArticleBookleteer and the Museum of Childhood
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...
View ArticleIdea Store and bookleteer
I chose to visit the Idea Store in East London’s Chrisp Street Market and was quite surprised by how modern it looked inside – it was brightly lit with large open spaces, laptop benches, lots of...
View ArticleRecording & Sharing Traditional Ecological Knowledge
This week I’ve spent a couple of days in Scotland with James Leach, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen working on ideas for recording and sharing Traditional Ecological Knowledge...
View ArticleWorkbooks for community knowledge networks
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...
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