2025-03-15
new a/r (art and research) database
Database architecture for the a/r initiative
those.tools is a software development and design studio for research, editorial and publishing practices in the arts and social sciences. We develop free and open source tools for writing, archiving, mapping, designing and publishing research.
We activate and adapt each tool to the context of every project we collaborate on. Wether for self-initiated projects or commissioned work, our aim is to explore new ways of doing things, recognizing the epistemological function of tools with a strong focus on collective creative processes.
These processes can produce a variety of objects: books, web platforms, sound installations… They may also, we hope, produce new ideas, new perspectives, new relations.
Open to collaborations, those.tools welcomes fellow designers, developpers, artists with an interest in these topics.
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Chemins a data archiving and mapping tool. Built on top of the Processwire CMS, it enables one or more users to build up a database of documents, specifying object typologies and relationships, while graphically visualizing these documents within a map. The resulting database can be used to produce a website, with each node and link in the graph constituting a web page.
source code: https://gitlab.com/those.tools/chemins
programming languages : PHP / JS
built on top of Processwire
Chemins: firstwaves.be (2024) Chemins: simbambili.org (2024) Chemins: reconnecting objects (2024) Chemins: alcool.medor.coop (2018) Chemins: alcool.medor.coop (2018) -
Marginalia a writing tool for creating relationships between several columns of text. It can be used to write linear text containing calls for notes, as well as multi-voice dialogues. It includes an export module for designing a printed publication from the encoded content.