The Cronotope is a working prototype evolved from a methodology of thinking and design research which builds upon the book experience and ecology of book culture. The project rather then replacing the physical book with intangible data, incorporates the technological advances of networked pages, shared margin spaces, and physical interaction into the experience of the printed artifact as a way to explore the space between printed material and the screen.
Reading is uniquely a singular interaction but knowledge and comprehension are communal. The Cronotope is a system and design platform that incorporates the communal aspects of reflection, knowledge, and comprehension into the experience of the individual act of reading. As a system, the Cronotope will engage the social interaction and ecology of book clubs, study clubs, and educational groups. Through giving interaction to the physical pages of a book and building shared spaces for reflection, the engagement of comprehension becomes a shared event. When the margins of books and literature are shared what does the margin become, a communication space? A passive location to challenge a social exchange? A reflection space for many? A space to engage the content deeper with in a group?
The Cronotope is an outcome of seeing print material replaced and disregarded by its technological brethren. Print material including books, magazines, periodicals, newspapers, and comics have all come under the treat of being relegated to the trash due to networked screen technologies. Technologies such as the Kindle, Nook, future tablet PC’s and smart phones have greatly diminished the market share of print material. As technologies move forward and interaction with print material becomes lessened, the question should be how did this happen? it should be why has print material not adapted and become a link between ink and screen? The Cronotope is a system that uses prototyped conductive inks along with networking capabilities to explore and engage the experience of literature and its physicality as essential to its media type.
The Cronotope is named from the concept developed by Russian philologist and literary philosopher M.M. Bakhtin who used the term to designate the spatio-temporal matrix, which governs the base condition of all narratives and other linguistic acts. The term itself can be literally translated as “time-space.” The term is developed in Bakhtin’s essay published in English as “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel.”
Knowledge is embodied in people gathered in communities and networks. The road to knowledge is via people, conversations, connections and relationships. Knowledge surfaces through dialog, all knowledge is socially mediated and access to knowledge is by connecting to people that know or know who to contact.
Denham Grey
check out thesis website : Marginalia: The Hybrid Textbook
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