Digital platform — DAE Studio Technogeographies

School: Design Academy Eindhoven

Department: Studio Technogeographies

Course: Second- and third-year students

Tutor: Domitille Debret

Complete assignment available on dpst-teaching.f451.faith

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In order to collectively build and think about an online publishing platform, the 3 studio sessions will be designed to explore the various stages involved in collective website production. The aim is to question the challenges and opportunities of digital publishing from content gathering to storage, and from classification to presentation.

You will engage in discussions, research and experimentations centering around 3 phases: Defining, Gathering and Sharing. Each session will include technical or critical input lectures such as: online publishing tools, web sustainability, open source movements, content management systems, image compression …

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Session 1

Session 1Defining

10.10.2023Year 2
- 20.10.2023 Year 3
- 10:00 Lecture: Introduction to the platform
- 10:15 Group presentation: Introduce yourself by answering one or two of the following questions:
  What web browser are you using, and why? (1)
  What's your favorite (non-social media) app? (2)
  What is your last open tab (desktop/mobile)? (3)
  What is the first website you remember? (4)
  What shows up on your TikTok For You page? (5)
- 10:30 Lecture: What does it mean to publish something online?
- 11:O0 Reading: Chapter: ‘The Designer as Hacker’
- 11:20 Group talk:
  What is a Hacker? (1)
  Who Owns the Network? (2)
  The Network Society (3)
  Merchants of Data (4)
  Pixel Engineers and Time Thieves (5)
  The Hacker Ethic (6)
  Open Source (7)
  Ethical Digital Design (8)
  Document: Takeaways
- 12:00 Group Talk:Why a platform for Studio Technogeographies?
- 14:00 Lecture: Exploring Ethical Guidelines for the World Wide Web
- 14:20 Assignment: In a group of 4 to 5 students, select one of the following startegy, and lists methods that can be implemented to make a website more sustainable:
  Design (1)
  Programming (2)
  Hosting (3)
  Content (4)
  Document: Sustainable Web Design
- 15:00 Group talk: Takeaways
- 16:00 Lecture: What is image compression?
For next time
Explore various digital compression methods on this image set or with your own images, to enhance visual appeal while minimizing file size.
(5 to 10 images)

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Session 2

Session 2Gathering

04.12.2023Year 3 • Day 1
- 10:00 Lecture: Workshop Introduction
- 10:20 Assignment: Research Phase
  In a small group or alone, explore a specific topic or field of interest and find compelling stories, investigations on the topic of URLs. This can range from technical viewpoints, fun facts, geopolitical analyses... Discover an angle that interests you and would contribute to a coherent collective online publication
  
  Use the following Google Sheet to input 2 or 3 angles per group/person (Fill raw C to F).
- 11:30 Group Talk:Presentation of Angles
- Briefly present 2 or 3 angles per group/person. In order to collectively decide what would make a more coherent series url stories
- 12:00 Assignement:Structure
  Each group/person will use an Etherpad page to serve as the platform for conducting and documenting their research.
  
  Group A url_story_1 (1)
  url_story_2 (2)
  url_story_3 (3)
  url_story_4 (4)
  url_story_5 (5)
  url_story_6 (6)
  url_story_7 (7)
  url_story_8 (8)
  url_story_9 (9)
  url_story_10 (10)
  url_story_11 (11)
  url_story_12 (12)
  url_story_13 (13)
  url_story_14 (14)
  url_story_15 (15)
  
  Group B url_story_16 (16)
  url_story_17 (17)
  url_story_18 (18)
  url_story_19 (19)
  url_story_20 (20)
  url_story_21 (21)
  url_story_22 (22)
  url_story_23 (23)
  
  About Page (16)
  References (17)
  
  All of the pages will be collected in a collective online publication
- 13:15 Assignment:Investigation Phase
- 16:30 Gathering:Image compression tests
  Instructions: TBA
05.12.2023Year 3 • Day 2
- 10:00 Group Talk: Story Presentations
  Each group presents their selected stories and angles.
- 13:00 Assignment:Finalisation and standardisation
  Edit and unify content, designs, tags, text levels.

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Resources and References

On online tools

Silicon Valley’s Sixty-Year Love Affair with the Word “Tool”, by Moira Weigel, 2018
Available at: newyorker.com
The CMS, by Rob Giampietro, 2014
Available at: linedandunlined.com

On online publishing

Sharing as Survival: Mindy Seu on the Cyberfeminism Index, by Marie Hoejlund, 2020
Available at: walkerart.org
How to archive your work digitally, by Cedar Pasori, 2019
Available at: thecreativeindependent.com
Publish Something Online, by Jake Dow-Smith
Available at: publishsomethingonline.com

On web ethics

Sharing as Survival: Mindy Seu on the Cyberfeminism Index, By Marie Hoejlund, 2020
Available at: walkerart.org
My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be, by Laurel Schwulst, 2018
Available at: thecreativeindependent.com
The Growth of HCI and User Interface/Experience Design, by Ben Shneiderman, 2018
Available at: medium.com
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, by Aaron Swartz, 2008
Available at: archive.org
HTML Energy, by Laurel Schwulst and Elliott Cost, 2019
Available at: html.energy

On web sustainability

LOW←TECH MAGAZINE, by Kris De Decker, 2007
Available at: lowtechmagazine.com
‘Do the 1990s hold the key to sustainable websites?’, 2021
Available at: cnn.com

On web images

What Gets Lost in the Crop? How Aspect Ratios Shape the Way We See the World, by Nika Simovich Fisher, 2021
Available at: superhi.com
Creative Compression, by Random Studio, 2021
Available at: medium.com
“Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering”, by Surma, 2021
Available at: surma.dev
Stylistic Image Compression, by Max Tomren, 2021
Available at: tomren.design
TexTuring, by Ivan Murit, 2015
Available at: ivan-murit.fr
Jim Janossy,'.jpg Compression vs. Digital Image Quality', 2011,
Available at: youtube.com

This web page is a work in progress and will continue to evolve throughout the creation of the platform and after each studio session. New references and takeaways will be added regularly to present the process as it evolves.

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