This workshop was aimed at troubling the idea of an index.
• Example: Imperfect Index, where the index is at the front and not set up traditionally, that viability giving it authority as ‘para text’ or the main text, organised as a map to move you around in different ways
• To consider when making an index: western knowledge frameworks, ignoring marginalised groups, local knowledge often considered as secondary, language
• Language and colonial power dynamics, latin alphabet dominates
• Queer Arab Glossary example, collects slang, organised by sound, theme, image, illustration
• Coral Dictionary
• Hives / Aladin Boriolo
Parallel Encyclopaedia / Suter – a NOT book, non-sequential
• Decoding Dictatorial Statues / Yoon
• LATCH theory / Wurman
• Snowglobes / Nancy Duarte
As a group we combined our BT Archives choices, mine wad a rotary phone from my childhood, into an offline visual index that included manual/tactile use, phone box window designs and other unexpected factors, we rendered it in the form of a large phonebox.