CRIP CONNECTIONS
Making, Mapping, and Mailing Across Worlds
Dee Matthews & Philippa Bradbury · Central Saint Martins
// ABOUT THE SESSION
A collaborative, practice-led correspondence using small, handmade, mailed objects to think across distance, access, delay, materiality and care.
The postcard as research tool, printed object and carrier of relation.
// THE PROMPT
"What do you want to say across a distance?"
- ›What can be carried by a small object?
- ›What does it mean to send care across distance?
- ›What might be misread, delayed, returned or transformed?
- ›What do you want to say that does not need to be fully explained?
// POSTCARD GALLERY
CONSENT FORM
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Dee
Phil
a card of support, woven together
Dee
Phil
A visit to the doctoral school, the support of gender identity and going part-time a great reason to send a postcard
Dee
Phil
A visit to an exhibition and the love of weaving
Dee
Phil
Visual coding, focus groups and transcriptions… the work of PhD
Dee
Phil and Jenny
thank you for the collective fire breathing … it was very appreciated of to the ACM online
Dee
Phil
yes we did it! OK same time next year sounds good to me
Dee
Phil
It is an academic cartel…. Yes it is!!!
Mx.D.P
Peterborough
Phil sent this after a conversation where I said this… Phil said it stayed with her. We both want humanity to do better, despite as she says the evidence to the contrary… lets do better, we can
Dee
Peterborough
After sharing the my DD paper with Phil she sent me this. It’s good to be seen; as sometimes you think you maybe going mad, who wants to know this stuff, a PhD researcher thats who!
Dee
Belgium
A holiday postcard from Phil, even PhD students need a break! In fact we really need a break!!!
Dee
London
Phil’s process from a surfaces as archives workshop… this is practice as memory… this is the process of postcards
Dee
Peterborough
I was really moved to get a card that was a sentimental find from Phil’s late Grandma, it meant a lot.
Dee
Peterborough
Phil couldn’t get this phrase out of her head, I mentioned in the AI talk I gave, that Claude is Programmed to be Too nice…
Phil
Borth
This is by far my favourite postcard. I love the colours, the dots, and the bold statement.
Phil
Borth
Fourth postcard from Dee
Phil
Borth
Spring 2026
Phil
Borth
This is the postcard that started it all, so it is special! Love the collaged lighthouse.
// DRAFT A MESSAGE
Draft a postcard message here.
What do you want to say across a distance?