Publication

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The book is no longer
?
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Perhaps it is a sign of our millenniums end
that we frequently wonder what will happen to
literature and books in the so-called
postindustrial era of technology. I dont much
feel like indulging in this sort of speculation.
My confidence in the future of literature
consists in the knowledge that there are things
that only literature can give us, by means
specific to it. - Italo Calvino, Six Memos for
the Next Millennium
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Narrative Design
ART 3625 Advanced Design I
or designing for a narrative experience

• Introduction - defining of terms
• What is a narrative and what does it have to do
  with this class?
• (everything)

• Narrative n
• 1. a story or an account of a sequence of
  events in the order in which they
  happened
• 2. the art or process of telling a story or
  giving an account of
• something
• 3. the part of a literary work that is
  concerned with telling the
• story

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Narrative Design
designing for a narrative sequence
More questions

• How does this form of design - these specific
  applications -
• differ from any other design scenario?
• What are the variables involved?

Focus on the details of everything.
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• Is there a relationship between designing a
  several page
• article in a
• -Magazine
• -a childrens book
• -an interactive animation?

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designing for a narrative sequence
Course Structure

• The semester will be divided between three main
  projects.
• Project 1
• Focuses on linearity and narrative design through
  digital space.
• Project 2
• Focuses on time, space, and the narrative journey
  through a non-linear design
• Project 3
• You will have the choice to create a non-linear
  or linear design and
• experiment with tools and media to share this
  narrative.
• All in all you will have a total of four
  narrative design opportunities
• in addition to a fifth(the final journal).

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designing for a narrative sequence
Course Structure

• In this course we will continually explore the
  nature of opposites
• Specifically, the six memos readings, from which
  you will create a final
• project based on these underlying polarity
  concepts.
• We will also explore the fine details of
• non-linearity vs linearity. These concepts are
  explored in the
• context of narrative formatting, structuring and
  even content.
• (What constitutes a linear vs.a non-linear
  narrative? Examples?)

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• Have the courage to use your own
• understanding.
• - Immanuel Kant, An answer to the question What
  is enlightenment?