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What is Zineography?

Zineography is an unfolding exhibit that highlights how collaborative zine making can operate as a participatory design process that retains the plurality of individual expressions while facilitating the co-construction of shared narratives through editorial design practices.

Zines (as in magazines) are self-published publications that are often created, produced, and distributed by their author(s). When members of a community of interest co-create a zine together, they construct narratives through their editorial juxtaposition and styling of individual contributions on a given topic – co-creating a new story based on how individual contributions are positioned, presented, and framed together in one artefact.

Zineography puts a spotlight on this editorial design process, and invites PDC 2022 attendees to collaboratively make a zine together on personal experiences that relate to a conference theme.

Kiersten Hay (she/her)

Kiersten Hay is a designer-researcher at the University of Edinburgh. Drawing on her background in Communication Design, Kiersten’s design research praxis focuses on using participatory design methods and approaches to co-create meaningful artefacts, tools, and services with others. Her previous work includes working with HIV social support service providers in the UK to evaluate and design community-based digital social support tools and services with women living with HIV and their social support service providers.