Editing Publisher:Refugee Phrasebook (section)

== How did students get involved? ==
The project appealed to us in WdKA publication station, as besides being important voice in this time of humanitarian crisis and European amnesia and arrogance, it was a project that require a '''hybrid publishing workflow''' and '''collaboration''' between many participants - two aspect we have been exploring for the past year in the Publication Station from the Willem de Kooning Academy. [[[[File:hybrid-workflow.png|thumb|right| Hybrid Publishing workflow]]


Just like the tutors or volunteers from the outside, by receiving an email about the project asking if anyone would be interested in collaborating.  
A few of them joined, for different moments in the process and different modes of collaborations - designing the phrasebook, folding it, or distributing. But it all happened very organically. Students and staff members were deciding by themselves what they could or could not do.

After the team has gathered the phrases, agreed on the essential languages, the format of the phrasebook, and it's structure, the design team - that consisted mostly of 2nd year BA Graphic Design students - organized itself to complete the layout. That involved having someone doing illustrations, others making the layout, and assembling it together. Tutors worked with them, like equals, mostly fine-tuning some rough edges.

Folding was the most fun part where many friends from the outside came to give a hang. We folded 2000 booklets so far.

And currently are in the process of distributing them, but the lack of information of shelters, and Dutch government strategy, where refugees are moved around the country in buses staying in temporary shelters for around 3 days, is making distribution and other grass-roots support difficult.

[[File:wdka_00-rpb.jpg|600px| Design team working ]]




[[File:wdka_03_RPB.jpg|600px| Folding party at the Publication Station ]]

[[File:wdka_04_RPB.jpg|600px| Folding party at the Publication Station ]]


[[File:pubStudio_01_RPB.jpg|600px| Folding party at the Publishing Studio Rotterdam]]

[[File:pubStudio_03_RPB.jpg|600px| Folding party at the Publishing Studio Rotterdam]]

[[File:pubStudio_02_RPB.jpg|600px| Folding party at the Publishing Studio Rotterdam]]