Cambridge · estabLiShed . 2025 · Documentation OF Individual's Thoughts on to Paper

Each zine comes from weeks of conversation with a resident at Ditchburn Place. The words are theirs. The illustrations are drawn in the room, reviewed together, and published only when the resident is happy with them. Names are pseudonyms.

Patient is key in the documentation process taking time, sitting with the individual or group listening, drawing ,talking , and turn what they say into something they can hold.

An equal conversation between two people.

We use technology to put the individual words on the page — voice transcription, drawing tablets, whatever fits the person — so the work belongs to them, in their own language.

The Garvald Globe was the first version of this: eight pages, made with residents and staff, twenty years ago.

Ditchburn Place is the current one.

This isn't a one-afternoon workshop handing out with crayons to colour by numbers in. We work with real memories, over time, with people whose stories matter to them. The outcome is not measure in formatted piece of paper. It may be a conversation that is follow up with in a group .Patient, slow, on a level

No false deadlines.