2017 Workshop
9:00am – 12:30pm, Wednesday, 3/15, in Portland Ballroom 251
HASHTAGS: #4C17 & #MW04
SCHEDULE:
9:00am – Opening remarks and introductions
9:15 – Maker’s Faire
- Button making
- Subversive cross-stitch and yarnbombing
- Found writing
- Postcard lobbying
- Ledger art
- Circuit bending
- e-lit & web writing
10:45 – Break
11:00 – Roundtable discussion on DIY circulation and curation, including archiving, preservation, and curation
Resource: zine librarian code of ethics
- Audrey Eschright (open source advocate, and community organizer, and publisher of the feminist hacker zine The Recompiler)
- Amelia Abreu (runs UX Night School, a free skool of sorts and a self-described systems geek)
- Cathy Camper (zine librarian from PDX and all around mind-blowing writer/artist)
- Frank Farmer (University of Kansas)
- Kelly McElroy (Oregon State University)
- Patrick Williams (Syracuse University)
- Danielle Koupf (Wichita State University)
12:00pm – Pedagogy brainstorm & discussion
12:15 – Closing remarks and ideas for 4C18 in Kansas City
Optional afternoon site visit TBA
GOALS:
- To promote DIY as a powerful and relevant mode of production for local publics like Portland,
- To develop a faithfully complicated understanding of the affordances and limits of the rhetorical work of DIY,
- To use DIY/craft for composition and composition pedagogy, and
- To learn from DIYers and curators about circulating and preserving this work.
CO-CHAIRS:
- Jason Luther (Syracuse University)
- Frank Farmer (University of Kansas)
- Marilee Brooks-Gillies (Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis)
- Steven Hammer (Saint Joseph’s University)
- Danielle Koupf (Wichita State University)
- Kelly McElroy (Oregon State University)
- Chelsea Murdock (University of Kansas, Lawrence)
- Kristi Prins (Cal Poly Pomona)
- Martha Webber (California State University, Fullerton)
- Patrick Williams (Syracuse University)
2015 Workshop
9:00am – 12:30pm, Wednesday, 3/18, in Portland Ballroom 251
HASHTAGS: #4C15 & #MW02
SCHEDULE:
9-10am — Introductory remarks, Q&A with guests from the Tampa Zine Fest and Tampa Free Skool
10-11:45am — Maker’s Faire (with coffee break)
Three half-hour sessions — pick tables you’d like to join for each session (links are to handout drafts):
- guts of DIY publication (Patrick)
- html (Kristi)
- yarnbombing (Kristi)
- buttons (Martha & Frank)
- zines (Jason)
- ledger art (Chelsea)
11:45-12:30pm — Pedagogy discussion (45 min)
- Small group discussion and brainstorming on this GoogleDoc
- Full group sharing and discussion
GOALS:
- To promote an awareness of DIY and its relevance to our changing understandings of what a text is, and to reveal why any new understanding of composition must acknowledge how making and writing are inseparably linked practices;
- To show how DIY is both a critique of and an alternative to, received assumptions about what counts as legitimate publication;
- To reveal why DIY production serves a democratic function — in our classrooms and in our communities.
CO-CHAIRS:
- Frank Farmer (University of Kansas)
- Jason Luther (Syracuse University)
- Martha Webber (California State University Fullerton)
- Chelsea Murdock (University of Kansas, Lawrence)
- Kristi Prins (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
- Patrick Williams (Syracuse University)