[Reader-list] A book of suggestions

shveta shveta at sarai.net
Wed Apr 7 12:36:24 IST 2004


Dear All,

Please see
http://www.sarai.net/cybermohalla/works/scratch_book/scratchbook.htm
for the Cybermohalla Scratch Book, a work in progress which begins documenting 
the last thirty three months of processes at the Cybermohalla labs 
(http://www.sarai.net/cybermohalla/cybermohalla.htm). This book is also in 
the process of being translated into German, Italian and Spanish for use by 
different groups.

ABOUT THE SCRATCH BOOK

Scratch:
(verb) Mark the surface of (something).
(noun) The line from which a start is made.
(adj) Assembled or made from available resources.
(verb) Initiate the search for something.

This is a book of suggestions. It contains a set of inscriptions that map the
journeys and lines of flight of different people who have been working
collaboratively in media labs for over thirty-two months. It embodies
their process of work, experimentation, inventiveness and play.

It is a register of notes, annals, journals, manuals, annotations,
commentaries, conversations, suggestions, reflections, indexes and scrap
books. It is a map of different projects undertaken, without defining final
destinations. Instead it offers suggestions for alternative routes, and
considerations on the possibilities that might lie in roads 'not yet taken'.

It details everyday practical experiences, while creating something new in
the process. It is an invitation to inscribe, and so to participate in this
process of creating.

Scratch and Plug In 

Produced at the Sarai Media Lab, March 2004
Published by Ankur+Sarai

Looking forward to feedback, comments and inscriptions.

best,
Shveta
Cybermohalla/Sarai




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