Platform P’s interactive archive brings independent bookstores across Korea, including those in Mapo-gu, into a shared cultural map. Fifteen bookstores and more than 940 books are represented in an expandable collection of recommendations that reflects each shop’s identity and curatorial perspective.
When viewers place an acrylic box with each bookstore’s printed logo on it, a list of books recommended by the independent bookstore unfolds on the screen. Designing a physical interface, such as an arcade interface, media can explore digital materials with a tactile experience of materiality. Viewers can use the media to understand independent bookstores and print information such as curation concepts, brief introduction of books, and location of independent bookstores.
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