Squares
What is a square?
A square is a component of a pamphlet. You know how if you look at a newspaper and blur your eyes, you would see lots of boxes? When someone writes for a newspaper, they write text in a word document, but when an editor puts together a newspaper they see all the bits of text as little blocks that must be put together on the page.
When someone makes a square, it is a part of a pamphlet, that can be put alongside other squares. But the nicest thing about squares, is that they can be re-used over and over again. Someone who lives in Barcelona can make a square, and the square will appear alongside a square that someone else made in Panama City.
And once a square has been made, it is available to be used. You will see that we have put lots of squares here on this website, in case you want to make your own pamphlet.
There is one other important aspect about a square in this style of pamphlet which we call a Cumbernauld Pamphlet. And that is that the squares must be able to be interacted with in some way. The square should start a conversation between the person who made it and the person who picks up the pamphlet.
It should have space in it, for the reader to write or draw or ask questions, and it should start the reader off on a process of learning. Most of all, it should never tell the reader facts, or ask the reader a rhetorical question.
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