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commonplaces.bsky.social
Commonplaces
@commonplaces.bsky.social
A project about commonplacing: a practice of collecting, recording and extracting meaningful fragments and keeping them in a book, which thinks about materiality, time and living resistant lives.
Most recently, we ran a workshop with participants at the @qubhistory.bsky.social Centre for Public History annual conference. Here are some of the results. Thanks @emmajmca.bsky.social, @alexjioannou.bsky.social and others for sharing your work.
September 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As we tunnel into autumn, time to take stock. We have held two lovely workshops this year and talked to over 30 keen commonplacers, which has given us confidence in this method of marshalling fragments of paper in fragments of time. @katecaoimhearthur.bsky.social @lizajthompson.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
@imaginebelfast.bsky.social event 'Making Meaning through the Miscellaneous' with @lizajthompson.bsky.social and @leoniehannan.bsky.social is starting in just a few minutes @crescentarts.bsky.social... Can't wait to meet our participants! #ImagineBelfast
March 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
So, today went well - many small, simply constructed booklets were produced. Next time we'll be hearing from @lizajthompson.bsky.social about different ways of understanding this fragmentary form.
January 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Getting ready to practice our commonplace book-making skills ahead of our #ImagineBelfast festival workshop @ Crescent Arts at the end of March. Check out the programme: imaginebelfast.com/about-the-fe...
January 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Hello, we are new to @bsky.app and looking for friends with interests in #writing practices, historical and contemporary. Here is a nice image of a commonplace book from times gone by to get us started!
November 26, 2024 at 3:32 PM