Tutorial Notes 290126
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– Victoria looking forward to execution through Riso, it will converse well with guilloche patterns. Wondering about playful quality, interactivity, stamps, stickers, excited to see how that will work. How could that fit with commercial printing if it gets to that? (Victoria)
– Could this be a ‘pack’ of stamps, stickers, map, publication, as an activity for parents and kids to us together.
– Dual narrative – kids, informal, funny, base it on how I speak to my daughter. Include stamp device or equivalent for adults facts etc. Perhaps record myself talking to my daughter as reference? A bit fun, a bit serious, digestible tone.
Tomi…
– Age range? 9-12 discussed. Refer to professional contact. Year 7, primary age.
– Text works, explains things quite nicely, particularly where it talks about acknowledging harm of Empire.
– As we’re using familiar objects, how then am I able to open up a world or thinking? Tamarind example mentioned good, stamp communicates to adults but needs simplifying. Rephrase it. Do that thing like it kids’ movies where adults’ jokes above the kids’ heads. Text will need to have a balance between those two things, particularly the phrasing of it.
– Aesthetic will be fun and textured, engaging colours. A workbook would be a good idea, so things happening. Illustrations works well but there could be space for drawing, adding in information.
– Not sure that this passport format works in the same way that it did initially. Because it’s so loaded, it kind of limits what you can do with it (?). There was something about the foldout that wasn’t contained. If it’s on the table and we’re engaging with it, is it something about looking at scale, magnitude. So could there be a map in there? Being able to grasp the idea of vast histories, passport feels contained to meet that. Does the book therefore accompany other things, it’s one component of it, so when you travel places this is helping you understand? Through engaging with objects, clothes etc, that passport metaphor needs to feel more connected.
– Could it be an instruction book? A tipped-in map, sticker items plotting a journey where these things come from.
– Passports are permission, visually there’s so much going on. Is there a way of stripping back some stuff and focussing on other things.
– Communicating to children – different types of kids and families, white English, Indian etc. Does these need to be universal? Something to research. How to that inform how I approach it.
– What to these mixed conversations look like?
– In what way can I make this universal? Fictional?
– Play can be used to communicate complexity to the kids, to facilitate understanding without being reductive.
– It would be good to make sure that it’s not phrased as something from the past, as it’s still going on today. When the Queen die for example?
– Play and seriousness need to interlink. References have clear position. How radical or sanitized is it going to be? Do you want to be provocative about it? Decide, and then adjust the tone accordingly.
– This could work quite well as a workshop. As you’re profiting and making, what would this look like as a workshop? Is it just parents and kids or is it wider? Additional contexts?
– Clearly articulated annotated bibliography, woven into your practice which is great.
– References given – The Black Curriculum, Lit in Colour (Penguin Books)
– Not a GAME an ACTIVITY.
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Action points:
– Iterate an activity pack of sorts
– Organise research, approach a bunch of people too see who will talk to me
– Prepare a paragraph to explain the project
– Think about audience. Does this need to attempt to be universal or can it circle back to white British kids and their parents? If the way to improve attitudes adjusting the curriculum as well as something straight on.
– Uncomfortable Books? Like Uncomfortable Art Tours ref from Unit 2?
References I found:
https://www.thisisbooklove.com/shop
https://www.facebook.com/crdcFrome/?locale=en_GB
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THOUGHTS AFTER RISO EXPERIMENT
– Lovely light paper
– Nice imperfections
– Easy enough to execute
– 1.5 hours to make a 4 colour separation
– 1.5 hours to print with technician help
– Results are nice, but not as distressed as I would have liked. Why do I want it to be rough, is that appropriate? A question for later.
– Shelve this method for now until you have a more integrated prototype to play with. Large format printing for a map, for example?
– Consider Oakfield School, Avanti School, Frome Multicultural society. Is there something about keeping it local in terms of findings and knowledge? Is there something about keeping it local with audience as well? Lots of other sources look to change things on a grand scale. I just want to get parents and kids realizing this legacy like I did.
– Next stage should focus on primary research, but iterate format in the background. Perhaps push on the illustration as well.
