StoryCubes

playful cubes for storytelling, brainstorming ideas or playing games in three dimensions

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Diffusion engaging with the community, online and out in the world.

Residencies

an ongoing programme enabling residents at Proboscis studio to create eBooks and StoryCubes for their own projects.

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eBooks & StoryCubes created for learning and educational purposes

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Browse the collection of Diffusion Shareables: eBooks & StoryCubes

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Articles by Giles Lane

Giles Lane is founder and co-director of Proboscis. He conceived of and developed the Diffusion eBook format with Paul Farrington and designed the Proboscis StoryCube.

An Accidental Menagerie 1 by Andrew & Maggie Hunter
November 27, 2007 – 2:54 am | Comments Off on An Accidental Menagerie 1 by Andrew & Maggie Hunter
An Accidental Menagerie 1 by Andrew & Maggie Hunter

Download A4 | US Letter PDF 3.1Mb About : Part 1 of a series of eBooks created as part of […]

eNotebooks: learning diaries, field notebooks and evaluation tools
November 22, 2007 – 5:36 pm | Comments Off on eNotebooks: learning diaries, field notebooks and evaluation tools
eNotebooks: learning diaries, field notebooks and evaluation tools

In addition to using the Diffusion eBook format to publish essays and artists books, Proboscis has also been using it […]

A video guide to making up your eBook
November 19, 2007 – 2:52 pm | Comments Off on A video guide to making up your eBook

James Bridle of booktwo.org has created a lovely video of how to make up a Diffusion eBook: Diffusion eBooks from […]

StoryCubes as an evaluation tool
November 16, 2007 – 7:33 pm | Comments Off on StoryCubes as an evaluation tool
StoryCubes as an evaluation tool

Dan Sutch of Futurelab writes on flux about using the StoryCubes at their recent Why Don’t You… conference, During my […]

A brief history of Diffusion
November 10, 2007 – 1:10 am | One Comment

Diffusion began life back in 1999 as a response to the increasing difficulty that I was having in distributing the […]

Bibliography v.01 by Tony White
November 9, 2007 – 4:29 pm | Comments Off on Bibliography v.01 by Tony White
Bibliography v.01 by Tony White

Download A4 | US Letter PDF 160Kb About : Bibliography v.01. This bibliography gathers together all of the sources used […]

The Scene by Tony White
November 9, 2007 – 4:14 pm | Comments Off on The Scene by Tony White
The Scene by Tony White

Download A4 | US Letter PDF 168Kb About : The Scene is part of the Balkanising Bloomsbury project for the […]

Hyde Park by Tony White
November 9, 2007 – 4:09 pm | One Comment
Hyde Park by Tony White

Download A4 | US Letter PDF 160Kb About : Hyde Park is part of the Balkanising Bloomsbury project for the […]

Do You Hear That? by Tony White
November 9, 2007 – 4:04 pm | One Comment
Do You Hear That? by Tony White

Download A4 | US Letter PDF 160Kb About : Do You Hear That? is part of the Balkanising Bloomsbury project […]

Bottle Orchestra by Tony White
November 9, 2007 – 3:57 pm | 2 Comments
Bottle Orchestra by Tony White

Download A4 | US Letter PDF 172Kb About : Bottle Orchestra is part of the Balkanising Bloomsbury project for the […]

Ahead in the Line by Tony White
November 9, 2007 – 3:51 pm | Comments Off on Ahead in the Line by Tony White
Ahead in the Line by Tony White

Download A4 | US Letter PDF 160Kb About : Ahead in the Line is part of the Balkanising Bloomsbury project […]

Gobbledegook by Tony White
November 8, 2007 – 3:06 pm | One Comment
Gobbledegook by Tony White

Download A4 | US Letter PDF 248Kb About : Gobbledegook is part of the Balkanising Bloomsbury project for the Case […]

StoryCube Design Services
November 7, 2007 – 1:38 am | One Comment

Proboscis is developing new design services for StoryCubes: StoryCube Packs for Conferences & Workshops: for organisers to distribute to delegates […]

How Can StoryCubes Be Used?
November 7, 2007 – 1:34 am | Comments Off on How Can StoryCubes Be Used?

At Proboscis we use StoryCubes as poetic and playful devices for exploring ideas in three dimensions, allowing us to reveal […]

Kensington Walk by Kevin Flude
October 26, 2007 – 8:51 pm | One Comment
Kensington Walk by Kevin Flude

Download A4 | US Letter PDF 136Kb About : a short walk on Kensington. Published October 2007 Kevin Flude‘s main […]

Making sharing easier?
October 23, 2007 – 10:17 pm | One Comment
Making sharing easier?

Proboscis has been looking at additional ways to share eBooks and StoryCubes that use mobile phones as the medium. In […]

Author Biogs: Urban & Social Tapestries
October 19, 2007 – 12:28 am | Comments Off on Author Biogs: Urban & Social Tapestries

Alice Angus, co-director of Proboscis, is an artist inspired by rethinking concepts and perceptions of landscape and human relationships to […]

Author Biogs: Case Study Residencies 2007
October 18, 2007 – 4:24 pm | Comments Off on Author Biogs: Case Study Residencies 2007

Bev Carter has been developing an arts and communication project with students in Umologho village, Nigeria since December 2006. “I’m excited […]

Deep_’n_Dark Mo(u)rning Rises by Eloise Mitchell
October 17, 2007 – 12:55 am | Comments Off on Deep_’n_Dark Mo(u)rning Rises by Eloise Mitchell
Deep_’n_Dark Mo(u)rning Rises by Eloise Mitchell

Download A4 | US Letter PDF 340Kb About : Eloise took part in a Writing Workshop for young writers run […]

Deep_’n_Dark Dusk Descends by Eloise Mitchell
October 17, 2007 – 12:52 am | Comments Off on Deep_’n_Dark Dusk Descends by Eloise Mitchell
Deep_’n_Dark Dusk Descends by Eloise Mitchell

Download A4 | US Letter PDF 296Kb About : Eloise took part in a Writing Workshop for young writers run […]

Generator Case Study Residencies
October 11, 2007 – 3:55 pm | 8 Comments

During 2007 Proboscis is hosting a programme of short residencies enabling artists and writers to spend up to five days […]

Peckham Rising by Paul Goodwin
October 11, 2007 – 12:41 pm | Comments Off on Peckham Rising by Paul Goodwin
Peckham Rising by Paul Goodwin

Download A4 | US Letter PDF 1.6Mb About : the first in a series of eBooks created by Paul Goodwin […]

Curating.info Conversations: Alissa Firth-Eagland by Michelle Kasprzak
October 11, 2007 – 12:38 pm | One Comment
Curating.info Conversations: Alissa Firth-Eagland by Michelle Kasprzak

Download A4 | US Letter PDF 308Kb Abstract: the first of a series of eBooks created by Michelle Kasprzak as […]

Author Biogs: Liquid Geography
October 10, 2007 – 2:33 am | Comments Off on Author Biogs: Liquid Geography

Andy C Pratt is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the LSE. He is Director of the MSc Cities, […]

Author Biogs: CODE
October 10, 2007 – 2:27 am | Comments Off on Author Biogs: CODE

Michael Atavar (www.atavar.com) is an artist who works with the unconscious, using methodologies of chance and process to make performances […]

Author Biogs: Species of Spaces
October 10, 2007 – 2:25 am | Comments Off on Author Biogs: Species of Spaces

Caroline Bassett researches and writes about new technology. She is currently working on the Arc and the Machine, a book […]

Author Biogs: Performance Notations
October 10, 2007 – 2:22 am | Comments Off on Author Biogs: Performance Notations

Johnny de Philo [Sue Golding] is working philosopher and working artist. head of theory at the jan van eyck akaademie, […]

Performance Notations (2000)
September 6, 2007 – 6:05 pm | Comments Off on Performance Notations (2000)

DIFFUSION is a new publishing series which aims to utilise the specific advantages of digital media to create a new […]

Species of Spaces (2002-2006)
September 5, 2007 – 4:17 pm | Comments Off on Species of Spaces (2002-2006)

First published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of Georges Perec’s untimely death, Species of Spaces an ongoing series of […]

Critical Infrastructure Walking Guide by Jeff Maki
August 11, 2007 – 11:25 am | 2 Comments
Critical Infrastructure Walking Guide by Jeff Maki

Download US Letter only PDF 2.8Mb About : Critical Infrastructure is a walking/field guide intended for people who, as they move through […]