Description
Digesting Care is an experimental publication developed with Kendal
Beynon for TAKING CARE, a European research project exploring care and
kinship within ethnographic and world cultures museums.
How can a publication make connections across a conference
without reducing its complex and sometimes unresolved conversations into
a single narrative?
We attended the conference as listeners and participants, using
drawing as a form of note-taking to capture ideas, conversations and
relationships beyond written documentation. Recurring concepts such as
contradiction, plurality, fabulation, entanglement and the unknown
became a tagging system through which papers, presentations, photographs
and workshop materials could be connected.
Rather than separating editorial work, design and development, we
built a publishing infrastructure in which these processes could inform
each other. Collaborative text files and tags were transformed through
Python into a lightweight website, while the same content and visual
system extended into a physical publication. The digital version uses
semantic HTML and dithered images, with high-resolution media available
on demand, considering accessibility, resilience and energy use as part
of the publishing process.
The website also became the blue print for the physical edition.
Fifty different states of the website were printed, producing 50 unique
versions of the publication. Rather than reproducing a single definitive
arrangement, each copy preserves one possible reading of the
material.
The result is a hybrid publication that treats publishing not as the
documentation of a finished conversation, but as a way of revealing
relationships between ideas and allowing different readings to emerge
across digital and physical forms.
My role:
- Illustration
- Publication design
- Web design & development
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