A workshop about giving new themes to specific wikipedia articles in collaborative way using etherpad.
Declarations is an ongoing artistic research into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard.
A workshop about giving new themes to specific wikipedia articles in collaborative way using etherpad.
A workshop about giving new themes to specific articles of wikipedia in collaborative way using etherpad, through a firefox web-extension.
The themes of this workshop are
As we know, each CSS “sentence” is called a declaration. Like the choice of words we decide to use to tell a story, these statements can speak to our intentions and the narrative we place on the things we make on the web. A historical example of CSS storytelling through writing is CSS-Zen garden.
“Hundreds of designers have made their mark -- and sometimes their reputations -- by creating Zen Garden layouts, and tens of thousands all over the world have learned to love CSS because of it.”
Later came initiatives such as Stylus, a browser extension that lets you add CSS to the web page you choose. Similar to CSS-zen garden, but the alterations are only visible to the user. On userstyles.world, you can download hundreds of alternative stylesheets for a large number of mainstream websites. Each of these styles are personal fictions of a web that exists only for oneself (and a few friends).
In design tactique, Nolwenn Maudet talks about web extensions or parasitic software to resist specific systems of oppression on the web.
This is design that “can only be deployed in the face of something that already exists” and that “requires the ability to seize the opportunity”.
