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Wendy starts Dividing the Space of the day

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Wendy starts Dividing the Space of the day

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see related post here:

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My day as a flattened image - colours, textures, spaces add meaning to the linear flow and cycles. I used a new app that I hadn't explored yet (Sketches Pro) since many sketch-noters are using iPads to create detailed graphics and images. This task and tool will extend my creativity for some time

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Tried to represent the "size" of the space I was in at the time. Ended up using squares because of Nick's rule that we shouldn't have empty space unless we really meant it! I don't like this graphic at all but am sharing in the spirit of #CLMOOC!

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Starting with the scrap paper on the desk and an unsharpened pencel - well, that's how the days usually flow.

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I wanted to communicate the change of pace and weight of each section.

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TERRY ELLIOTT12:40 PM flatlessness.tumblr.com?

Amanda O. Latz, Ed.D.12:41 PMHappy to be here! Yes, flatlessness.com flatlessness.tumblr.com

Sheri Edwards12:41 PM http://flatlessness.tumblr.com/
TERRY ELLIOTT12:44 PM Irony of unflattening (3d) into a 2d space--the comic panel?yeah, this is my key takeaway,too,
Kevin Hodgson12:46 PM Will 3d comics ever transform the comic? Or are they too limiting?
Sheri Edwards12:47 PM Little boxes made of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.... Pete Seeger
TERRY ELLIOTT12:47 PM valorization of the text
Kevin Hodgson12:47 PM That image of the classroom still lingers in my mind months after reading it
Sheri Edwards12:48 PM I see a cat Susan in the black background one
TERRY ELLIOTT12:48 P Many stance is a distorted stance? yes.
Susan Watson12:48 PM hmmm
Kevin Hodgson12:48 PM Love this image
Susan Watson12:48 PM yes Terry
Kevin Hodgson12:48 PM and of course, the dog ...
TERRY ELLIOTT12:48 PM yes, what are we missing, blindspots.
Sheri Edwards12:49 PM "any stance leaves things out" how can we make "more" more visible
Scott Glass12:49 PM We forget what is upwards. Yes. We forget to be active observers of our world. #clmooc
TERRY ELLIOTT12:49 PM reminds me of THWhite's Once and Future King where Merlin becomes a hawk
Scott Glass12:50 PM Doing something because you like doing it. Revolutionary.
Kevin Hodgson12:50 PM "amphibious writing" -- neat term
Sheri Edwards12:51 PM no longer seeing seems head-on, see from the sides
TERRY ELLIOTT12:51 PM I have always felt that if we were cephalopods we would never say on the one hand and the other hand. No binaries for squids.
Scott Glass12:51 PM Love McCleod's book.
Susan Watson12:52 PM butterflies see so many colors that we don't know even exist
Kevin Hodgson12:52 PM revolutionary book ... recently passed it along to my high school son ... along with Nick's book ... I might need it back, kid
TERRY ELLIOTT12:52 PM Have a powerful desire to annotate
Susan Watson12:52 PM Terry not surprised word for "urge to annotate"
Sheri Edwards12:53 PM aha.simultaneous recognition
Kevin Hodgson12:53 PM Sequence and Simultaneous ...Cool
TERRY ELLIOTT12:54 PM You really need to slow down to read this way.
Kevin Hodgson12:54 PM brilliant
TERRY ELLIOTT12:54 PM meta ladder the word for varied route--snookering about
Scott Glass12:55 PM Reminds of the great book Mapping Manhattan. Definitely worth checking out.
me12:55 PM visual creating a steady beat love it
Sheri Edwards12:57 PM the way thoughts unfold - really
Kevin Hodgson12:57 PM love this! Someone say, play?

TERRY ELLIOTT12:57 PM fabulous use of notes and sketching that make this a powerful combo

Scott Glass12:58 PM Love seeing artist's processes.
Susan Watson12:58 PM so awesome to hear directly from Nick
Sheri Edwards12:58 PM I'd like to hear from Amanda's work also
TERRY ELLIOTT1:00 PM I think the word is 'curator'
Scott Glass1:00 PM Where does the work come from. Yes. Fascinated by this. Has led me to focus so much more on process in Humanities.
Amanda O. Latz, Ed.D.1:01 PM Happy to share!
Scott Glass1:03 PM What does it mean to be an artist. I view Terry as an artist.
Susan Watson1:03 PM definitely
me1:03 PM So do I.
Sheri Edwards1:04 PM yes
Kevin Hodgson1:04 PM I struggle with loss of agency when I use other sites as my frame ...
me1:04 PM Can we do comics sans comics?
Kevin Hodgson1:04 PM :0
Susan Watson1:04 PM the answer has to be yes
Sheri Edwards1:04 PM sometimes other sites help us have a frame
Amanda O. Latz, Ed.D.1:05 PM The thinking is in the making. Yes!
Kevin Hodgson1:05 PM if comics are a visual medium, if we sites that have built-in art, are we missing out on what comics are really about? Maybe. But they are a starting point.
Scott Glass1:06 PM Could also turn it around. The making is in the thinking.
TERRY ELLIOTT1:06 PM Molly Bangs Picture This
Susan Watson1:06 PM define "what comics are all about"
me1:06 PM Yes, Scott.
Sheri Edwards1:06 PM in teaching writing, we use media, and sometimes others don't understand media is writing [and reading]. the process -- thinking it through and making choices--is the journey of writing
Kevin Hodgson1:06 PM Molly Bangs: http://www.amazon.com/Picture-This-How-Pictures-Work/dp/1587170302
Scott Glass1:07 PM Right on, Sheri. I have my kids do a lot of paper and glue creating. Push them to use silhouettes and templates. No drawing necessary.
Susan Watson1:08 PM analyzing visual media is in our curriculum
me1:08 PM freewriting, ah the 70s
Amanda O. Latz, Ed.D.1:08 PM Syllabus is outstanding! Such a great read for educators! It changed my approach to one of my classes.
Sheri Edwards1:08 PM awesome susan what was the author's name?
Kevin Hodgson1:08 PM One positive element of Common Core is the further inclusion of visual media and production
Sheri Edwards1:08 PM syllabus?
Scott Glass1:09 PM Good question, Susan.
Susan Watson1:09 PM thanks
me1:09 PM I think he just said successable
Sheri Edwards1:09 PM That's what I've been rethinking and Terry, I'm doing it without permission
Amanda O. Latz, Ed.D.1:09 PM https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/syllabus
Susan Watson1:09 PM yes he did
Kevin Hodgson1:09 PM Thanks, Amanda
me1:09 PM I think that is a new thing...accessible makes us successable...these days...
Susan Watson1:10 PM I am really curious about the whole concept
Sheri Edwards1:10 PM yes thanks Amanda
TERRY ELLIOTT1:10 PM I love this idea of lots of iterations in smaller projects that lead to larger projects.
Scott Glass1:11 PM Great answer to social media question. Model of how to use social media for professional, creative purposes. What my kids/students need help with.
Susan Watson1:11 PM everything used to be about ownership and control
TERRY ELLIOTT1:11 PM yeah, Nick, you have opened up a lot of adjacent possibles.Many thanks.
Sheri Edwards1:12 PM Yes, Terry -- that works well in middle school -- smaller builds to larger -- based on what students find important
Susan Watson1:13 PM interesting how many middle school teachers ended up here
Scott Glass1:13 PM Sheri, I think that works well at every level.
TERRY ELLIOTT1:13 PM Sheri and if we could add a collab element, well...
Sheri Edwards1:13 PM Yup to Scott and Terry
Susan Watson1:13 PM would love that
Susan Watson1:14 PM I gave my copy to someone at school and had to beg for it back
TERRY ELLIOTT1:15 PM also check out Steve Berg's Portal: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/steven-l-berg/2015/05/07/teachingreading-nick-sousanis-unflattening
nick sousanis1:15 PM Lynda Barry, "syllabus," "picture this", "what it is"Molly Bang - "picture this"
Sheri Edwards1:16 PM Thanks Nick
Susan Watson1:17 PM multimedia multimodal responses
me1:17 PM systems of connection Nick, looking at the time, want to get us started on an exercise that we can finish up later?
Scott Glass1:18 PM I love this. All the ways to think, reflect, respond, and communicate.
me1:18 PM a making response to reading
Kevin Hodgson1:19 PM Sounds like what we were doing in Rhizo15 with the book, too. Interesting the response that readers get
me1:19 PM yes...maybe the two can be shared?
Susan Watson1:19 PM ongoing
TERRY ELLIOTT1:19 PM Some books are evocations, Nick's is a provocation.
Susan Watson1:20 PM indeed
TERRY ELLIOTT1:20 PM Let's play
Amanda O. Latz, Ed.D.1:20 PM Woo hoo!
me1:22 PM another issue of comics machines, Terry no space to play with frame
TERRY ELLIOTT1:23 PM Anna limiting but not deadly
me1:23 PM yes
TERRY ELLIOTT1:31 PM rectangulatecompression?
nick sousanis1:34 PM good word
me1:35 PM and there's the rooster!
Kevin Hodgson1:36 PM or jaws ...
nick sousanis1:36 PM rooster!
Susan Watson1:36 PM roooooster
Monica Multer joined group chat.
TERRY ELLIOTT1:37 PM farming is damned jagged sometimes
me1:37 PM Do you have a drawing to share?
Monica Multer1:38 PM Mine turned out to be less of a comic and more stress relieverbrb
Kevin Hodgson1:39 PM like a present not yet unwrapped: make cycle 5
nick sousanis1:41 PM hold yours up Monica!
me1:41 PM process notes
Scott Glass1:41 PM Absolutely, Kevin. Same for my 11th and 12th graders. Have learned the game.
nick sousanis1:41 PM holy smokes!
Scott Glass1:42 PM Very cool, Monica
Monica Multer1:42 PM not really a comic but a process of running in circles
Sheri Edwards1:43 PM the pendulum is in the boxes and will now swing back to play
nick sousanis1:44 PM yay, sheri!
me1:44 PM grab on it, Sheri! Hold it there!
nick sousanis1:44 PM and Monica - that's cool, it doesn't have to be a comic - it has to work for your thinking...
TERRY ELLIOTT1:44 PM just tell me how to get an A
Kevin Hodgson1:44 PM 100 mookles
TERRY ELLIOTT1:44 PM big prob of strategic student
Sheri Edwards1:45 PM my students don't care about grades, so learning in the process is much better for them [not for the testers]
Monica Multer1:45 PM Thanks Nick!
me1:45 PM It is a terrible thing that has been taught in school.
me1:46 PM maybe some mapping and unflattening of learning in space(for me...inspired by what you were saying, Susan)
Kevin Hodgson1:46 PM somewhere unexpected...
nick sousanis1:46 PM led to unexpected places!that's what it should be...
Sheri Edwards1:47 PM yup. adjecent possible -- knowing it will go yest unexpected
Susan Watson1:47 PM it is a lie
nick sousanis1:47 PM overscaffold...
me1:47 PM when we pour in cement in the scaffolding
Monica Multer1:47 PM yeah for me I have spent a lot of time over the last couple of years unlearning what I was taught in order to relearn how I learn and express and create.So the unlearning is akin to unflattening to me
me1:47 PM and glue it to the building walls
Kevin Hodgson1:48 PM @monica -- origami unlearning
Kevin Hodgson1:49 PM magical mystery tours ...
Amanda O. Latz, Ed.D.1:49 PM Love it, Nick!
TERRY ELLIOTT1:49 PM Yeah well I m not a teacher either they pay me to learn
nick sousanis1:50 PM well said, Terry...ugh - "the right way"
me1:50 PM nice, terry these are things I didn't know about Monica am so glad she jumped in!You jumped inOnly talking about you in the third person because you're busy...
Kevin Hodgson1:51 PM How many others in the world could find resonance in her (our) story? More than we think ...
nick sousanis1:51 PM all wonderfully said, Monica!
TERRY ELLIOTT1:51 PM Monica, glad you are rising up from the flattened landscape
Scott Glass1:51 PM Right on, Terry. It's what I tell the students. I'm here to learn, so lets get working.
Susan Watson1:51 PM nice to have your perspective Monica.
TERRY ELLIOTT1:53 PM Rudolph Stirner called these preconceptions and learned schemas about purple elephants as wheels in the head, not good
Scott Glass1:54 PM Sounds like the English class equivalent of the 5 paragraph essay. Lord, deliver me.
TERRY ELLIOTT1:54 PM Best evah
Amanda O. Latz, Ed.D.1:54 PM Thanks, everyone!
Susan Watson1:54 PM so glad you were here Monica
TERRY ELLIOTT1:54 PM This is going on to Vialogues
Kevin Hodgson1:54 PM Thanks, Nick!
Sheri Edwards1:54 PM Yes Scott !
TERRY ELLIOTT1:54 PM Vialogues
Scott Glass1:55 PM This was great. Thanks, Nick.
Sheri Edwards1:55 PM Thanks Nick for your energy, ideas, openness, adjacent possible, and time
Monica Multer1:55 PM Thanks everyone!wish I could have joined in earlier!
nick sousanis1:56 PM http://scholarlyvoices.org/unflattening/
http://padlet.com/khodgson1/unflat

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From a live hangout for #CLMOOC with comics artist and educator Nick Sousanis (@Nsousanis) your assignment is: 1. Take a single sheet and carve it up in some grid like fashion that represents the shape of your day - the spaces in time you pass through during the course of your day 2.

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Added a figure. Broke the rules.

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Conversations and considerations, creating connections , flowing with family, friends, ideas, bumping into someone's sadness, uplifting a bouncing back, and opening possibilities of wonder, wonder...

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This is my favorite panel in Unflattening

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My day abstractly told by circles upon circles inside circles and surrounded by circles. Color, Mood, sloppy circles, and repetition pretty much describe my day :)

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Win some, lose some. In the end...

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Connections in writing, family and other

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All things Nick edited by Steve Berg

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Nick Sousanis -- Unflattening

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Unflattening, originally my comics dissertation, was published by Harvard University Press in 2015. Click here for an excerpt.

For forthcoming public talks please see here.

Unflattening is also now available in French (as Le déploiement), Korean, Portuguese (as Desaplanar in Brazil), and Serbian. Curious about using Unflattening in the classroom? See how it's being taught here.
AWARDS for Unflattening
Publishers Weekly Starred Review! "Sousanis has made a profound contribution to the field of comics studies and to semiotics, epistemology, and the burgeoning study of visible thinking. Essential reading for anyone seeking to create, critique, or consider the visual narrative form."

New Statesman Review Neel Mukherjee. "[Unflattening] is a book that is dense with the syntheses of ideas, nimble, far-reaching and impossible to summarise. It liberates itself from the standard layout of panels within frames, teaching the eye and mind to read the unfailingly intelligent black-and-white artwork in unconventional and new ways. Unflattening deserves a place as a compulsory textbook in schools."

Forbes includes Unflattening on its list of 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2015, calling it "Beautifully drawn and brilliantly conceived, Unflattening is an instant classic."

names Unflattening to it list of 25 Best Design Books of 2015! Describing it as, "the end result is, frankly, genius"

The Kenyon Review includes Unflattening on its 2015 list of Recommended Reads, calling it: "a modern day mashup of philosophy and critical theory, there is poetry at work in this contemplative comic book that offers as fresh a take on the genre as Spiegelman's Maus did when it first hit the bookracks in 1991."

The American Library Association's " Choice: Reviews" calls Unflattening "potentially revolutionary." "For more than two decades, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (1993) has been the cornerstone of nearly every syllabus for courses on comic books and graphic novels. Though nothing can usurp it, Sousanis's Unflattening now provides the answer to the question, "What next?" ... "This is a book that wants to teach, a book that will be talked about and belongs in any forward-looking library."

Massive interview with media scholar Henry Jenkins, who describes Unflattening as "not simply good comics, whatever that might mean, but transformative comics, comics that stretched the medium in all different directions, comics which made us think about comics were in new ways." See all four parts here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

Renowned UK comics critic, scholar, curator Paul Gravett names Unflattening to hislist of Top Ten Comics of 2015: "Reading this PhD entirely in comics form will alter your perceptions, of comics, of art, of how to see and process your world and your ideas. Sousanis is relentlessly innovative in his solutions to picturing his concepts and in the process provides irrefutable proof of the efficacy of the medium to explain engagingly and memorably..."

New York Times Book Review by Doug Wolk "Comics": " Sousanis 's Unflatteningis a genuine oddity, a philosophical treatise in comics form. 'Flatness,' for Sousanis's purposes, is not the quality of abstraction that Clement Greenberg lauded in modern art, but the lamentable condition of the inhabitants of Edwin A. Abbott's 'Flatland': the inability to understand that there might be more than one can immediately perceive..."

LA Review of Books review (in comics form!) by Stephen Asma: " Sousanis has achieved something powerful-a book that goes beyond just saying a thesis to actually showing one."

(comics/culture site) review:The Unflattening Moment by Rob Salkowitz,: "When history looks back on 2015 as a breakthrough year for comics in higher education, the publication of Unflattening by Nick Sousanis on Harvard University Press will surely stand out as a turning point."

writer Stephanie Amon calls Unflattening, "a delightfully profuse work on the nature of imagination itself."

Booklet Science Podcast, brilliant, insightful review, cohost Amanda Gefter describes Unflattening as using "science as a metaphor for deeper understanding" (last 15 minutes).

Quill & Quire (Canada), smart and insightful review by Ian Daffern, who calls Unflattening "terrifically ambitious, and sincere in its belief that comics can provide a parallax view to not just open our minds to innovation, but free us from the linear restrictions of what we call reality."

Der Tagesspiegel, lengthy review (in German).

Unflattening has made several comics of the year (thus far) lists! Alongside comics from established authors and publishers from DC, Marvel, Image, First Second, and more. See the rundown including Paste Magazine 20 Best Comics of 2015 (so far), Panels Favorite Comics of 2015 (so far), and The Young Folks 2015 Midyear Review.

Comics for Grownups Podcast, brilliant and rich discussion of Unflattening by Alexander Rothman & Joshua Malbin. Also made Comics for Grownups list of top 7 books of the year.

Newsarama interview by Forrest Helvieon Unflattening as changing the game within comics and academia.

The Brooklyn Rail, review by Matt Finch: "On the Shores of Word and Image"

The Comics Grid, review, "One Giant Leap" by Matt Finch: " Unflattening demonstrates the viability of a comic book as doctoral scholarship in its own right, rather than a separate work requiring some accompanying critical paratext. ... The great success of Unflattening is that the reader retires from this comics-essay feeling that to simply write about the form in prose is inadequate, and new discursive strategies are required to explore these open spaces. ... It will be thrilling to see what artist-scholars do in the comics space now that Unflattening has broached the gates of the academy from within."

BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow features Unflattening!

The Boston Globe book Discovery review by Jan Gardner: " Sousanis 's drawings are first rate and his writing style economical. To demonstrate how introducing new vantage points expands our thinking, he explores a range of philosophical concepts, calling on Plato, Copernicus, and even the 'fifth dimension' explored in the TV series The Twilight Zone."

Too Busy Thinking about Comics interview with comics critic Colin Smith Part 1 & Part 2.

New Books Network Podcast interview, with Carla Nappi who calls Unflattening: "a must-read for anyone interested in thinking or teaching about the relationships between text, image, visuality, and knowledge."

UOL ( Brazilian newspaper) interview "Teacher publishes doctoral dissertation in the form of comics in the US"

Creativity in Play Blogcast interview: live conversation with Steve Dahlberg & Mary Alice Long on creative process

The Lifted Brow (Australia), Unflattening got its first choose-your-own-adventure review! Creator Matt Finch decided since Unflattening was challenging the forms scholarship could take, shouldn't a review as well? Play here.

Comics Spectrum review by Joseph Manuel Nieves. I was particularly moved by this passage: "And the more I think about, the more in awe I am of what Sousanis has accomplished here. I've never read a scholarly work that elicited this kind of emotional response from me. To be clear, this is a truly intellectual volume, one which earned its author a PhD in education, but it's also a very stirring work of art. How many PhDs can say that about their dissertations?"
Editorial Reviews
" Nick Sousanis's Unflattening is a complex, beautiful, delirious meditation on just about everything under the sun; a unique and bracing read." -Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics and Making Comics

"An important book, Unflattening is consistently innovative, using abstraction alongside realism, using framing and the (dis)organization of the page to represent different modes of thought. The words and images speak for themselves and succeed on their own terms. I couldn't stop reading it." -Henry Jenkins, author of Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Society
From the jacket
The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge.

Unflattening is an insurrection against the fixed viewpoint. Weaving together diverse ways of seeing drawn from science, philosophy, art, literature, and mythology, it uses the collage-like capacity of comics to show that perception is always an active process of incorporating and reevaluating different vantage points. While its vibrant, constantly morphing images occasionally serve as illustrations of text, they more often connect in nonlinear fashion to other visual references throughout the book. They become allusions, allegories, and motifs, pitting realism against abstraction and making us aware that more meets the eye than is presented on the page.

In its graphic innovations and restless shape-shifting, Unflattening is meant to counteract the type of narrow, rigid thinking that Sousanis calls "flatness." Just as the two-dimensional inhabitants of Edwin A. Abbott's novella Flatland could not fathom the concept of "upwards," Sousanis says, we are often unable to see past the boundaries of our current frame of mind. Fusing words and images to produce new forms of knowledge, Unflattening teaches us how to access modes of understanding beyond what we normally apprehend. - Unflattening is available from Harvard University Press.

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Unflattening, originally my comics dissertation, was published by Harvard University Press in 2015. Click here for an excerpt. For forthcoming public talks please see here. Unflattening is also now available in French (as Le déploiement ), Korean, Portuguese (as Desaplanar in Brazil), and Serbian. Curious about using Unflattening in the classroom?