Looking at the “act of reading” as an “act of active interpretation”
Can we extend this to other forms of storytelling – like audio/ music, cinema, or movement/ dance?
Use the experiments for the purpose of archiving/ open source publishing for indigenous stories while incorporating the lively experience of it’s performative storytelling.
Can reading extend beyond just text?
How can new technologies and interfaces create more accessible forms of reading and storytelling?
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How emerging technologies can expand the possibilities of text beyond static formats,
making typography more interactive, immersive, and multi-sensory.
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How can graphic communication design facilitate new forms of storytelling or reading?
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How can oral or performative storytelling traditions, be archived and reimagined using new media?
“song as knowledge and dance as reading”
Outcome: A visual and interactive archive of storytelling medium.
Impact: This project seeks to expand the definition of reading by embracing visual, auditory, and performative elements. By questioning accessibility in publishing, it promotes inclusivity in storytelling, offering new possibilities for graphic communication design as a storytelling medium.
“akhra” used to be a gathering space which also was a way to transfer knowledge among generations.
Akhra traditionally has been an open space in the village for community meetings and entertainment; in the old days it was basically a seat of learning.
Due to migration, spaces like these are becoming redundant hence extinct.
if akhra is considered as an institution, this means there’s a need of indigenous education .Just like a lot of indigenous communities, Mundas hold and share knowledge in the form of songs and dance.
Seasonal festivals and corresponding songs holding knowledge about the practices of farming and agriculture.
naachi se baanchi – Dr ram dayal munda
will recreating it in a virtual space keep it alive even though we’re not in the same space?
a digital “akhra” space—- inspired by moniker’s dance tonite
How can graphic communication design create “space” for revival of a culture which in turn perpetuates the preservation of it.
As a designer – my intention is to preserve the culture.
As a reader – their participation is an act of perpetuation.
How do I use GCD to preserve songs and dance, a medium that is oral and led by movement?
Can GCD be a medium that is oral and led by movement?
grafik – written or drawn ————- can songs and dance be written or drawn, written songs, dance
written movement, drawn movement
reading spaces and communal engagement
stories through dance and singing?
how do you publish something intangible as dance and singing
how can you make reading a community activity?
How do you document a performance? —— Yvonne Rainer ———-written movement
Learning through reading and interpretation ——— Munari’s Books
she calls literary material / references as papyrii
hieroglyphs ——— notes of movement , verbal and visual renderings of movement, documentation, diagrams
petroglyphs —— photographs of the performances
and calls herself an archeologist