This workshop is for exploring the potential of the web. Not the web as it is commonly thought about; not the web that creates context collapse, not the web that causes information overload, not the web thats built on scams and fraud, not the web that promotes disinformation, and not the web that is built on advertisements and data collection.
During this workshop we'll get to know the quiet, poetic, personal web. The web that is built by hand and not by machines or corporations. The web that is small and lightweight. The web that is built for self-expression. The web that is environmentally conscious and site-specific.
The Handmade Web is a space for thought, craft, and connection. To make something by hand is to know it in an embodied sense. Can the internet be a space for craft? What practices do coders share with weavers, potters, carpenters? When handling materials, you learn about the potentials and the limits of that material. The web is built from materials that quite literally stretch across the world - where are its potentials and where are its limits?
| 9:30-10:10 | Introduction + publishing on the poetic, handmade web |
| 10:10-10:30 | Round of project trajectories |
| 10:30-11:30 | imagining your project on the web (ideas and sketching) |
| 11:30–12:00 | sharing ideas for the website |
| 12:00-13:00 | lunch |
| 13:00-14:00 | basics of HTML |
| 14:00-16:00 | hand make your site |
| 16:00-16:30 | publishing whats been made to the web + collective site reading/showing |
In this workshop, we'll be using several tools that would be handy for everyone to have downloaded onto their computer already. These tools are:
I have collected a few websites in this Are.na channel that in some way deal with publishing on the handmade web.
We'll learn some basics of HTML, if you're curious before or after the workshop then these tutorials by Laurel Scwhulst are useful ways to understand HTML and CSS