Neighborhood Book - An experiment

This Winter 2009, I decided to experiment with the development of a short workshop to teach a concertina (or leporello) book structure. The inspiration comes from the work of Kate Farley in her "Two Sides of the Same Street" book.

I invited three students to help me "de-bug" the instructions for making a book using the interlocked concertina structure. We meet for two hours on a Saturday morning, and students created their first "Neighborhood Book" sample. At the end of the morning, we also did a swap of decorative papers.

We all worked on a "Neighborhood Book" idea and made an edition of two, and a month later we met to swap one of the books. We all kept one copy of our own original book, and collected a copy of a classmate's book.

Here we are (in order of appearance) describing our "Neighborhood Books":

Deb Anders




Chris Kading




Eduardo García




Mindy McCoy