cache 01: Gegen|Wissen
Open Access Tool for Research Groups
How can the social dimension of Open Access in the humanities be strengthened? What kind of stories would arise if the individual caches, the places for unfinished things in everyday research, were interconnected? cache is a series and publishing tool for research groups examining exactly that. It enables research collectives to work together on a topic, to arrange source material associatively and to publish books generatively and as open access on a website. The resulting series is a mixture of a collective essay and material collection. cache 01: Gegen|Wissen is the series’ first edition.
Basic idea of the design was to automate repetitive activities in the design process and to provide the researchers with an easy-to-use tool. Contrarily to the series’ name cache, the script-based approach is on purpose being exhibited in the layout-design. The layouts are therefore subject to many intrinsic logics in terms of vertical arrangement, column handling, and hierarchy. Therefore the projects’ backend generates various HTML- and PDF-versions based on XML data.
Its first issue Gegen|Wissen inquires the role of the sciences and knowledge in the protest movements of the 1970s and 1980s.
cache 01: Gegen|Wissen
Designers: Loraine Olalia, Reinhard Schmidt, Victoria Knabe, Michael Simic
Coding: Janis Perren
Editors: Nils Güttler, Niki Rhyner, Max Stadler
Authors: Max Stadler, Nils Güttler, Niki Rhyner, Mathias Grote, Fabian Grütter, Tobias Scheidegger, Martina Schlünder, Anna Maria Schmidt, Susanne Schmidt, Alexander von Schwerin, Monika Wulz, Nadine Zberg
Publisher: intercomverlag, Zürich
Release: October 2020
Typefaces: “cache Mono” by Atelier Mateo Broillet (custom font, 8 weights in normal and extended width), “Gerstner-Programm” by Forgotten-Shapes, “Lyon Text Regular No 2” by Commercial Type
Volume: 528 pages
Format: 16.8 × 24.5 cm
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-9524954-4-5
Price: € 25.–
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