You’ve heard of MLA, APA, and Chicago…. here comes RCS ~ Relational Citation Style.
Co-authorship as a method of relational practices is the forefront of a lot of the work and thinking I make. The question of attribution began to come up in my practice, in part because I was attempting to keep track of all my conversations to properly cite those who helped in any way along my process, and in part because of my perception that all I make has never been made by only me. We are constantly recycling, reproducing, remixing ideas, and personally claiming any one thing as entirely my own has always felt icky to me.
Relational Citation Style is a system that grew out of exactly that—many many dialogues and people who I crossed paths with. I took an open-source academic font, EB Garamond, and developed custom glyphs to act as symbolic notation to go along with superscript in footnotes. The glyphs introduce other forms of knowledge that can be cited alongside published & copyrighted sources, to legitimize them within existing systems. It learns from both feminist and indigenous citation practices, with an emphasis on generosity and care, and the importance of tracing lineage. RCS treats oral transmission and collaborative thinking as legitimate and valuable scholarly sources that should be properly credited and traced along its lineage.
- Designer
- Deborah Khodanovich
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