Archives of the Mundane

This workshop will guide you through the making of your own booklet from concept, through layout, to binding. We will explore the many ways we experience the world around us through poetic observation of the mundane, the overlooked, the oft-forgotten. We will discuss the concept of valuable memory and push it to its boundaries: what do we choose to forget and why? Our inspiration will be drawn from the seemingly simple nouns and verbs in our environment to [hyperfocus? and] document the minutiae that fuels our creative power. By the end of this workshop, you will have created a living archive of your daily adventures, open to be fed records continuously as you roll through the days. STRUCTURE Our first encounter will focus on initial discussions and exercises, examples of booklet/zine conceptualising and binding, and project prep. Our second encounter will be an intro to page layout both in an analog way and with free-access software (Affinity). Lastly, our third encounter will be a binding workshop including the possibility to introduce your project to the group. No previous experience needed! I look forward to you :)