Here are the latest additions to our Liberatory Craft Library! Some just realised, some newly discovered or recommended, and some just remembered.
✊ Why do this? We’re guided by mutual flourishing: which means recognising that this is collective work and we’re all responsible for co-making our creative cultures and the world.
📜 Articles
👉 Ivan Pintor Iranzo’s “From Rhetoric to Archetype: Screenwriting Manuals”
“in what ways do screenwriting manuals and analytical studies complement each other and how do they exchange contributions?”
👉 Shane Agid’s “How What We Ask Shapes What We Can Imagine: De-Coupling Design and Punishment”
“I focus on what shaped these questions, and how the questions in turn shaped the possibilities for design that emerged from them, in ways that matter deeply to the imbrication of architecture, design, and punishment.”
📖 Books
👉 Lucy Ives’ Three Six Five: Prompts, Acts, Divinations
“Many exercises take the form of play, encourage collaboration with friends, strangers, and non-human beings, and operate off the page, often in the world, in the spirit of discovery rather than result.”
👉 Sarah Lynne Bowman, Kjell Hedgard Hugaas, and Simon Brind (Eds)’s Implementing Transformative Role-playing Games, Uppsala University
“This textbook explores implementation practices for running transformative analog role-playing games, such as transformative leisure, educational, and therapeutic applications.”
📺 Audio Visual
Victor Navarro Remesal’s talk “The Making of Zen and Slow Games”, Center for Digital Play, IT-Universitetet i København
🔖 Reports & Guides
👉 Kemi Alabi et al’s “Building Irresistible Movements: Best Collaboration Practices for Organizations and Visual Artists”
“How can organizers and artists best work together to harness the power of culture and create a more just world?” (through Monica trinidad’s ace Youtube video “Artists are workers | getting paid to make art for social change” https://lnkd.in/gR4KCJxB)
👉 OKRE & UKIE’s “Building a Unified Framework For UK Video Games Impacts”
“It provides research frameworks for the sector’s wide ranging impacts along with a reframed sector definition and interactive supply chain visualisation.”
👉 UNESCO‘s “Re|Shaping Policies for Creativity: we share, we act, we build”
“Digital transformation has fundamentally reshaped the creative landscape. Never has creative content been so abundant, nor the tools so widely accessible. Yet for many, stable employment and fair pay are out of reach. … These challenges urgently call for collaborative global governance.”
Explore these and more in the Liberatory Craft Library. 🙂