A Website Is a Room
6 days ago
- #web-design
- #digital-culture
- #community
- Previous entries were recovered via Wayback Machine and re-added.
- Live form and feed functionality restored after a school-wide data wipe.
- Reflection on the beauty of lost information and starting anew.
- Project aims to spark wonder in our networked world, focusing on web spaces that offer shelter and rest.
- A live feed of shared websites that embody qualities like smallness, quietness, and gathering.
- Encouragement to contribute personal, meaningful web spaces.
- Capstone project for UCLA's Design Media Arts program, emphasizing communal, romantic, and introspective web spaces.
- Exploration of the virtual space as a home, highlighting the impact of web environments on wellbeing.
- Advocacy for web spaces valuing smallness, quietness, and slowness over profit and efficiency.
- Discussion on the importance of individual creators in web space development.
- Interviews with Mindy Seu and Laurel Schwulst on gathering, web design, and the importance of personal, accessible web spaces.
- Exploration of peer-to-peer web, handmade web qualities, and the challenges of making web creation accessible.
- Reflection on the corporate nature of the internet and the struggle to maintain personal, meaningful spaces online.
- Design philosophies emphasizing pacing, withholding, and mystery to foster curiosity and community online.