Create a digital platform that enables a community of your choice to exchange information, goods, and/or services. Your community could be a group that shares a specific need or interest in a particular topic, the people in your building or city, or even this class etc. The site should be designed to accommodate a growing collection of information and allow members of the community to contribute to it.

On the back:
Originally published in 1973, the New Woman’s Survival Catalog is a seminal survey of the second-wave feminist effort across the US, mapping a vast network of feminist alternative cultural activity in the 1970s.

Due: 03/31/26

Homework for Tuesday is to decide on a community you want to design for. I would like to ask you all to write down as much as you can come up with concerning who the members are, and what they are potentially looking for when visiting your platform.

I would also like to ask you all to read Sharing as Survival, an interview with Mindy Seu.

Looking forward to talking more soon!

New Women’s Survival Catalogue
Whole Earth Catalogue
Cyberfeminism Index
Got2Go NYC
Whole Earth Catalogue
Queering the Map
One Minute Park
are.na
Spreadsheat Directories
Radio Garden

Sharing as Survival by Mindy Seu.

Identify an HTML element as your interface element, and create a website that comprises 25 instances of this interface element. Understand the semantic meaning and inherited styles, interactions, and functions of the HTML element; research its origin and common usages, and curate a content that complements, deviates, or subverts its common use. Compile all the instances you've created as components on a single page, you will then add your page to a class repository that we'll establish collectively as a component library.

On the back:
Released in 1997, Winamp was a lightweight MP3 media player for Windows known for its customizable skins, audio visualizations, and plug-ins. Thousands of user-created skins are preserved in the archives of the Winamp Skin Museum.

Once Again, the Doorknob by Olia Lialina.
Black Gooie Universe by American Artist.
I Am a Handle by Rob Giampietro.

The largest 88x31 colelction on the internet
Sketches by Susan Kare
Winamp Skin Museum
Form Art by Alexei Shulgin
Sebastian Ly Serena Homepage

Design and build a website that presents multiple texts in a non-linear reading experience. Identify meaningful cross-linking relationships within the content and develop visual strategies to represent these connections. Use tools such as sitemaps, navigation, and hyperlinks to map the web experience that allows multiple ways of exploration. Develop a cohesive visual system that unifies the texts into a digital reader with consistent, well-structured architecture.

Content: Jorges Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Circular Ruins and The Book of Sand

On the back:
Ted Nelson's lifelong project, Xanadu, was his vision of what the web could have been—a place where documents are permanently linked, sources remain visible, and content can be reused without copying.
Ted Nelson in Herzog's "Lo and Behold"

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Syllabus

Coding:
Basics of HTML, by Laurel Schwulst
Basics of CSS, by Laurel Schwulst
How to upload your site to Github Pages
CSS Typography
HTML Elements for Project 2
Simple CSS Animation