Archive Media: Local Independent Bookstores

The Archive Media of Platform P(Co-Station) focuses on local independent bookstores across the community, including Mapo-gu area. Recommended books curated by bookstores show the identity and direction of them. Currently, there are 15 bookstores, 940 books, and a data management system has been established that allows the media to continue to expand.

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.

Photographs: Jaemoo Jo(tabial studio), Platform-P (Co-station)