- Workshop
Reimagining Illumination: Mirrors + Movable Books
On March 24, Emily Brooks, Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities in the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, will lead a workshop where we will make pop-up mirror books.
Hosted by: SIMS and Kislak Center
Reimagining Illumination is a series of workshops designed to interrogate and expand the concept of illumination (i.e., the use of light) in books and manuscripts.
How can we use light to make our books beautiful, interesting, fun, or informative? Through a series of workshops, scheduled over the 2025-2026 academic year, we will investigate this question. Over the course of the year we'll look at books from the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, and we'll make some of our own. The series will culminate in an open exhibition with manuscripts and books viewed under candlelight, and featuring our creations, too.
On March 24, Emily Brooks, Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities in the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, will lead a workshop where we will make pop-up mirror books. Inspired by technochic and the way mirrors are used in the artist's books at Kislak we explored earlier in the semester, we will learn the basic mechanisms of paper engineering to create our own “disco pop-ups” using cardstock and mirror tiles.
Reimagining Illumination is sponsored by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and will be held in the Vitale II Lab for Digital Humanities & Book History (Van Pelt Library 623)