Time To Reboot: Beginners Guide For Divesting The World Wide Web

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On a worldwide web dominated by a few consolidated social media platforms and governed by super secret algorithms, self-publishing a website is a haven to protect your copyright, your data and your mind. This workshop, led by Strike Design Studio founder Em Woudenberg (@em1webmaster), will guide you to hack together your own website by deplatforming, rebooting and reforging the web.

The workshop is tailored to support Wix users in boycotting the platform. However, it is also useful for anyone looking to engage with the online world with more care - practicing queer publishing, trans hacking and subverting big-tech platforms. We aim to build stronger hyperlinks through the web <3

Zero coding knowledge is required. However, participants must bring their own laptops and download free software: a basic text editor, and an FTP client to upload files onto the server and onto each of their respective devices.

Strike Design Studio (@studioonstrike) designs brands, websites, and printed matter. Their transdisciplinary practice focuses on independent, queer, do-it-yourself, de-platformed, open-source urgent digital publishing. By publishing a blog or website on an autonomous domain, you are occupying space outside the control of centralized social media platforms. In their practice-led research, they explore these not-so-new alternative radical online space(s), their technicalities, the communities that occupy them and their politics.

Accessibility
The Glitch is a queer-friendly space, with a gender-neutral and wheelchair-accessible toilet on the ground floor.

Our workshops take place in the basement space, which is only accessible via stairs. The stairs have 15 steps down and a solid handrail, and the door to the stairway is approx. 75cm wide. When possible, we live-stream our workshops on Discord and make captioned recordings available afterwards.

Full details of the physical and sensory characteristics of The Glitch can be found on Sociability.
Policy
London Pattern Club operates a no-one turned away due to lack of funds policy. If you'd like to attend this workshop, but are unable to afford a ticket, please contact us and we will ensure you can still participate.
Graphic design: Strike Design Studio

Host or Publisher London Pattern Club