🎓 📊 📃Pamphlets │ 📜

Distributed Narratives:
Navigating Multiple Views

By: ✍️F. N. van der Vlist │ On: 🕓2012, June 11 │ In: 🏢Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences)

📂Designing Distributed Narratives Thirteen distinctive pamphlets are designed as supplements to the Bachelor’s thesis Distributed Narratives: Extracting Design Methods from Nonlinear Narrative Formations (2012). Each pamphlet provides a selective reading – or view – of its contents. The contents of the thesis are abstracted and visualised as a tree with branches for sections and subsections. Each branch has a page number and its position on the front side of the pamphlet corresponds precisely with a miniature representation of the corresponding paragraph on the rear side. That is, the rear side contains the entire thesis in miniature form, much like a landscape of floating text paragraphs. While the rear sides of the pamphlets remain identical, the front sides are particular to distinctive readings. Readings are based on a number of character types: there is a ‘Collector’, a ‘Data Architect’, a ‘Data Miner’, a ‘Decoder’, a ‘Device Junkie’, an ‘Encoder’, an ‘Information Architect’, a ‘Network Administrator’, a ‘Process Coordinator’, a ‘Random Participant’, a ‘Stylist’, a ‘System Architect’, and a ‘System Informer’. Descriptions of each character type are provided in the upper left sections of these pamphlets. They thus serve as blueprints covering different – and sometimes overlapping – aspects of conceptualising, designing, engineering, and coordinating distributed narratives whilst inspiring interdisciplinary collaborations.