Understanding the Design Values of Baby Books:Materiality, Co-Presence and Remediation Martedì 5 dicembre 2023 alle ore 17.00 presso il Percorso Libro del MUSLI si terrà un incontro sulla storia dei libri di stoffa pubblicati in Inghilterra, Stati Uniti e Italia negli ultimi cento anni. Rebecca Rouse (University of Skövde – Sweden) e Jacqueline Reid-Walsh (Pennsylvania State University – PA, USA) dialogheranno di relazioni tra materialità, elementi di design narrativo e formale, genere e contesto nella “Remediation”. Nello specifico verranno analizzati What is this? What is that?(1905) appartenente alla serie Dean’s Rag, Pat the Bunny (1940) , I PRELIBRI (1980) e Wiggle! March! (2009) della serie Indestructibles.Pompeo Vagliani (Presidente Fondazione Tancredi di Barolo) presenterà una ricerca...

From September 28 to October 1, the Movable Book Society held its biannual conference in Cleveland USA. In a much-appreciated hybrid mode, I attended the Saturday presentations virtually. The engaging presentations provided insight into this wide-ranging group. The first three were pedagogical. Doctoral Student Jodie Coates presented her dissertation “Paper-Engineered Poetry and Pedagogy.” She organized her virtual talk by age-based government standards but with associated creative projects. She referenced a new article “The paper engineered Pumpkin King” https://academic.oup.com/adaptation/advance-article/doi/10.1093/adaptation/apad031/7281583 Next was Liz Garcia’s video-taped sharing of her book A-Z Words. Notably, she chose words and mechanisms that defined and enacted the meanings. A live...