An initiative to encourage people to learn why and how to build their own website through engaging and creative workshops.
Digital Garden @ F.A.T. Studio
Workshop, 23.11.19
On Wednesday 20 Nov, Jack Wild brought together me, Rifke, Dan and Kristian to run a workshop at F.A.T. Studio, a newly-formed community space in Peckham.
The focus was on trying to come up with playful ideas that might belong in a Digital Garden and then working together to build them. The results of the session were really impressive and you can check them out here.
3.0
Update, 23.08.19
Initially this workshop was built with and for fellow students at Kingston School of Art, now it seeks to move beyond and find new participants from a variety of backgrounds. Stay tuned for new workshop formats, locations and teachers too!
Also, a little website revamp. Still keeping it simple and focussing on this log section to document goings on.
WWWorkshop mentioned on Lecture In Progress
Misc, 01.07.19
A really great guide to website building by super coder Rifke Sadleir, she kindly mentions this project in there amongst a bunch of other great websites and resources.
Have a read here.
2.1 @ Kingston School of Art
Workshop, 16.10.18
Phenomena Fanpage
For the first workshop of the year, the format was mixed up a bit. The taught content was more or less the same but the output was to be an actual webpage based upon a theme surrounding internet phenomena.
Arthur by Sheona T
Grumpy Cat by Lucy M-T
Whilst the session was enjoyable and everyone made some fun sites, I felt that something was missing in terms of the structure and coherance of the workshop – I have some ideas for pushing this next time though!
Participants — Hannah C, Toby K, Anna B, Rose A, Joe M, Linda H, Sophie L, Ollie S, Emily C, Sheona T, Lucy MT, Joe A.
2.0
Update, 11.09.18
This is really the first instance of this site being in use (it was more of a placeholder before) but as the workshop format evolves with the new University year, so should this site.
What's new?
LOG: This section is a place for regular updates, workshop documentation and other content.
RESOURCES: An Arena channel with useful links for both workshop participants and others.
SOURCE: The code for this site is available to you.
1.2 @ Kingston School of Art
Workshop, 23.04.18
Digital Business Card
Following the success of the first workshop, it made sense to run another in quick succession.
Once again, the aim was to create a digital business card using HTML and CSS. Here's a selection of some of the work created.
Participants — Megan B, Lucy G, George D, Tilda R, Simon F, Katie R, Rose A, Mike W, Toby K.
1.1 @ Kingston School of Art
Workshop, 11.04.18
Digital Business Card
The first official run of the workshop. The idea was to teach the basics of the HTML and CSS languages by building a digital business card that they could then show off to their friends as a token of their new knowledge in code.
The response was overwhelmingly positive, it was clear that these were skills that a lot of people were interested in acquiring.
Participants — Phemie F, Eddie S, Will R, Holly M, Alex H, Jonny P, Jack F, James D, Paulius D, Sam M.