Looking at the type of content I want to engage with (from earlier project brief – iterating)
Author and Reader (intent)
- to Describe / to Imagine
- to Inform / to Learn
- to Instruct / to Follow
- to Persuade / to Decide
Long-form and short-form content
https://www.readingrockets.org/classroom/choosing-and-using-classroom-texts/understanding-text-types#:~:text=Procedural or instructional text explains how to,to persuade the reader to agree with
Next stage of enquiry:
I’m exploring the interactions/ act of reading through narrative texts set in 3D space.
“Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of sight or touch.”
“Other types of reading and writing, such as pictograms (e.g., a hazard symbol and an emoji), are not based on speech-based writing systems.[7] The common link is the interpretation of symbols to extract the meaning from the visual notations or tactile signals (as in the case of braille).”
Reading —> the act of interpreting symbols to extract meaning through sight and touch.
Can sound also be a part of reading? are audiobooks reading?
“In her ( Muriel Cooper ) experiments, readers navigate textual displays through spatial paradigms that represent depth. This vein of enquiry replaces the small-to-large hierarchy of traditional print media with a near-to-far spatial and temporal dynamic— an eloquent transposition that maps neatly onto our sense of reading as a process of moving deeper and deeper into the document. This direction in dimensional typography investigates the spatial disposition of ‘flat’ letterforms: depth is represented through the layering of successive planar surfaces.”
Narrative Architecture – Cruz Garcia/ Nathalie Frankowski
Kynical Architecture – narrative provocations and practice as subversion
Architecture in narrative form
Every episode in a careful narrative is a premonition – Jorge Luis Borges
From Week 1 :
- Defining 3D using grids – looking at the space from the lens of architecture
What if we use architectural elements to construct text layout in 3d spaces like a window or a doorway or a hall of contents ?
Proposes different principles of typographic composition
—> Foreground and background
—> Points, lines and planes
—> Volume
—> Time
—> Motion / Physics
- I can use the layouts to elicit the sense of the text by activating different human senses or intuition.
—> Adding sound as another layer to reading experience
—> Building of information/ knowledge/ ideas
—> Text walls and Idea windows
Chapter Books
Now you see me – S.J.Bolton
Short story / Play / Poetry
Sosobonga – Ram Dayal Munda & Ratan Singh Manki