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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.