Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard and its visual-political-cultural echoes on design-artistic practices and our daily lives. Declarations is a love letter to the crafts of designing with language.
At the edge of declarations is writing: it contains everything we do on the web as it is made of text. The following piece of writing circulate around and slide in between the text that makes the web, emerging from collective moment or individual reflexions, or hybrid attempt at documentation.
Through 2 years of research, collective worksessions, workshop and talks, the way Doriane present Declarations has changed and accumulated other stories. This is a page that tries to be synthetic while being rich. It was started on march 2024, the last update is from october 2025.
In Tactical Design, Nolwenn Maudet talks about web extensions to resist specific systems of oppression on the web. It is design that “can only be deployed in the face of something that already exists” and that “requires the ability to seize the opportunity”.
What if the web was a shared living space? An article on performing CSS and the development of the Web Jockey Protocol.
An article about an in-progess web-extension called scrapping. It collect and archive elements of a webpage (e.g a searchbar) and store it on another web page to curate collections (e.g a collection of scrollbars). Like the practice of scrapbooking, it allows us to select, "cut" and "glue" elements we see on the web.
against creates combinations of named colors based on their accessibility ratio
A currated list of alternatives ressources on learning the web in sensible ways.
Declarations is a research into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard (Cascading Style Sheets) and its echoes on design and artistic practices. Declarations is a love letter to the crafts of shaping with language.