Fragments in Practice
Fragments in Practice is a project with an ethnographic focus that fosters (and reflects on) the encounter between the interactive potentialities of the Book of Disquiet Digital Archive and the creative subjectivity of its readers-users. At the moment, the project includes an inspirationally heterogeneous network of collaborators: it is formed by researchers mostly linked to the field of Literature and Digital Humanities; university students, graduates and post-graduates in various fields; members of the teaching community in secondary education and also in higher education; members of the artistic community, in diverse creative domains; as well as the general audience interested in the Book of Disquiet.
Our activities started in mid-2017 and are mostly presented in the form of seminars, workshops and other public activities of educational, creative and inspirational nature. In addition to disseminating the LdoD Archive, activities have been designed to feed two complementary tracks.
The first track, defined by its educational emphasis, focuses on a guided introduction to the features of the platform. To meet this challenge, in addition to the implementation of various didactic models, a step-by-step introduction, in the form of easily accessible online video-tutorials, was produced. The recording of some of our events and didactic videos can be fully accessed on our Youtube channel, Fragmentos em Prática.
The second track, with its emphasis on playfulness and creativity, encourages the subjective exploration of the platform through its specific forms of engagement with reading, editing, and rewriting. In other words, what we propose is for readers-users to elaborate new narratives of use (both during and beyond the workshops) in which they take ownership of the interactive fragments of the Book of Disquiet in order to appropriate and resignify them.
The Fragments in Practice project has developed several individual or institutional partnerships, as is the case of the LdoD Remix Workshops, in collaboration with the Operation Room project, and also through joint international collaborations with other academic communities, such as the Agostinho da Silva Chair, at the University of Brasília, and the Graduate Program in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, at the University of Salamanca. The project also offers individual consultancy and has collected individual testimonies on the uses of the LdoD Archive. For more information about the Fragments in Practice project, contact us through our Facebook https://www.facebook.com/fragmentos.pratica/ or email fragmentos.em.pratica@gmail.com.
Activities
2017
DISQUIET REMIX WORKSHOP 1
26/11/2017 – República dos Kapangas, Coimbra, Portugal
Introductory workshop to the platform aimed at producing mini-editions of the Book of Disquiet.
Coordinators: Cecília Magalhães, Manuel Portela
Virtual Editions:
José, Fátima, Robert, Andrea e João: https://ldod.uc.pt/edition/acronym/LdoD-JFRAJ
Kapangas da Fila da Frente: https://ldod.uc.pt/edition/acronym/LdoD-SKPGS
Viagem: https://ldod.uc.pt/edition/acronym/LdoD-KAPGEW
Edição Virtual LdoD Remix 2000: https://ldod.uc.pt/edition/acronym/LdoD-Kaps
Video recording: https://youtu.be/OJdpLW7NGUs
2018
DISQUIET REMIX WORKSHOP 2
07/09/2018 – Escola Secundária Cristina Torres, Figueira da Foz, Portugal
Secondary education teacher training introductory workshop to the platform aimed at producing mini-editions of the Book of Disquiet.
Coordinators: Manuel Portela, Cecília Magalhães
Virtual Editions:
Silêncio: https://ldod.uc.pt/edition/acronym/LdoD-AEFN
Luzes: https://ldod.uc.pt/edition/acronym/LdoD-LZ
Cidadania: https://ldod.uc.pt/edition/acronym/LdoD-sgraca
Mar: https://ldod.uc.pt/edition/acronym/LdoD-esct-Mar
Tejo: https://ldod.uc.pt/edition/acronym/LdoD-ag
Janela: https://ldod.uc.pt/edition/acronym/LdoD-PL
2019
FRAGMENTS IN PRACTICE WORKSHOP: A DYNAMIC INTRODUCTION TO THE LDOD ARCHIVE
13/06/2019 – FLUC, Coimbra, Portugal
Step-by-step introduction to the platform based on practical exercises involving different functionalities.
Coordinator: Cecília Magalhães; Performance: Nuno Meireles
Video recording: https://youtu.be/fkEgxAsxGlQ
LDOD ARCHIVE IN PRACTICE: DIGITAL DYNAMICS FOR READING, EDITING AND WRITING THE BOOK OF DISQUIET
26/07/2019 – FLUC, Coimbra, Portugal
Introductory workshop to the platform based on practical exercises focused on its different functionalities, given at the International Conference “Teaching Digital Literature”, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra.
Coordinators: Manuel Portela, Cecília Magalhães
FRAGMENTS IN PRACTICE SEMINAR: COLLABORATIVE REWRITING IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES
12/09/2019 – CES, Coimbra, Portugal
Seminar presented at the Summer School “CreA(c)tivar o Fazer Científico in the Social Sciences and Humanities” – Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra.
Coordinator: Cecília Magalhães
FRAGMENTS IN PRACTICE ONLINE SEMINAR: COLLABORATION AND CREATIVITY IN THE BOOK OF DISQUIET ARCHIVE
20/09/2019 – Universidade Federal Tecnológica do Paraná (UTFPR), Curitiba, Brasil
Seminar for the course “Literature in Digital Media”, Master in Language Studies, taught by Prof. Alice Matsuda.
Coordinator: Cecília Magalhães
FRAGMENTS IN PRACTICE ONLINE SEMINAR: COLLABORATION AND CREATIVITY IN THE BOOK OF DISQUIET ARCHIVE
26/09/2019 – Universidade Estadual do Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), Jardim, Brasil
Seminar presented at the I STAD (Seminar on Academic Works in Progress) and III SEDIS (Seminar on Indigenous Education and Sustainability).
Coordinator: Cecília Magalhães
READING, WRITING AND CREATIVE PRODUCTION GROUP – CREATIVE SESSIONS ON THE BOOK OF DISQUIET
09/11/2019 – Bar of Soap, Porto, Portugal
16/11/2019 – Valsa, Lisboa, Portugal
Dialogical introduction to the functionalities of the platform.
Coordinator: Cecília Magalhães
LDOD REMIX WORKSHOP: REMIXING THE BOOK OF DISQUIET
14/12/2019 – FLUC, Coimbra, Portugal
Workshop for introducing the platform and the concept of remix, focused on the creation of a collective virtual edition for the production of gif-poems.
Coordinators: Cecília Magalhães, Liliana Vasques
2020
READING GROUP – PORTO EXPATS: THE BOOK OF DISQUIET
16/01/2020 – Bar of Soap, Porto Portugal
Informal meeting with non-Portuguese speakers to discuss the English edition of the Book of Disquiet and presentation of the LdoD Archive.
Coordinator: Taylor Jipp, Collaboration: Cecília Magalhães
SEMINAR ON CREATIVE PRACTICES IN THE BOOK OF DISQUIET ARCHIVE
17/02/2020 – FLUC, Coimbra, Portugal
Seminar for the teacher training course “Creative and innovative practices in the teaching of literature” (CCPFC / ACC-106241/19 – 18 hours), coordinated by Profª Ana Maria Machado.
Coordinator: Cecília Magalhães
Video recording: https://youtu.be/ftQSh1Hlfhs
ONLINE LDOD ARCHIVE WORKSHOPS 1
13/05; 20/05; 27/05/2020 – online
Three online workshops: 1) Introduction to the LdoD Archive (05/13), 2) Soiree in the LdoD Archive (05/20), 3) LdoD Remix Workshop (05/27) which aim, respectively, to introduce the platform; to foster a collective reading and discussion of the texts (in this instance inspired by the confinement imposed by the pandemic); and to create gif poems derived from the discussion. This workshop was organized in collaboration with the Operation Room project.
Coordinators: Cecília Magalhães, Liliana Vasques
Video recordings:
Day 2 (05/20): https://youtu.be/gbvSLvG_LAU
Day 3 (05/27): https://youtu.be/mvw05dnnepI
Virtual Edition: Não tendo o que fazer https://ldod.uc.pt/edition/acronym/LdoD-Quarentena
ONLINE LDOD ARCHIVE WORKSHOPS 2
21/10; 28/10; 04/11/2020 – online
Three online workshops: 1) Introduction to the LdoD Archive (05/13), 2) Soiree in the LdoD Archive (05/20), 3) LdoD Remix Workshop (05/27) which aim, respectively, to introduce the platform; to foster a collective reading and discussion of the texts (in this instance inspired by the poetic condition of “lugar-logar”); and to create gif poems derived from the discussion. These workshops were organized in collaboration with the Operation Room project and the Agostinho da Silva Chair, at the University of Brasília.
Coordinators: Cecília Magalhães, Liliana Vasques
Video recordings:
Day 1 (21/10): https://youtu.be/-JcfMbYQqKI&t=3469s
Day 2 (28/10): https://youtu.be/S4kcLTP88zA&t=4619s
Day 3 (04/11): https://youtu.be/fPGiQh9ccRQ
Virtual Edition: Esse logar activo das sensações https://ldod.uc.pt/edition/acronym/LdoD-sarau
2021
ONLINE SEMINAR ON CREATIVE PRACTICES IN THE BOOK OF DISQUIET ARCHIVE
18/01/2021 – FLUC, Coimbra, Portugal
Seminar for the teacher training course “Creative and innovative practices in the teaching of literature”, coordinated by Profª Ana Maria Machado.
Coordinator: Cecília Magalhães
INTENSIVE ONLINE COURSE AND PERFORMANCE PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE FOR “YES, THIS IS ME, BERNARDO SOARES”
30/10/2020 – 05/05/2021 – USAL, Salamanca, Espanha
Online sessions with the actors of the student theatre group Baile Verde for the introduction of the Book of Disquiet and the LdoD Archive; leading texts; discussion and development of stage script, set design, and costumes; character development; rehearsals, and video production. This creative project is a partnership between the Fragments in Practice project and the undergraduate program in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at the University of Salamanca.
Coordinator: Cecília Magalhães; Actors: Celia Garrido, Cristina Grandes, Eduarda Pereira, Inés Puerto.
Virtual Edition: https://ldod.uc.pt/edition/acronym/LdoD-BaileVerde
