OPEN WEB STUDIO
Open Web Studio is a series of recurring workshops designed for collaborative learning about the web. It is a resource for Artists learning about the medium of the web, and how to leverage it in their work.
UPCOMING OPEN WEB STUDIO EVENTS:
NOVEMBER 2011: Digital Catalogs with Treesaver
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The workshop is structured on the model of ‘Learn One, Do One, Teach One’ in which teaching is meant to be iterative. The learner builds their skill set through practice, and becomes the teacher for a new learner in the group.
Here’s how it works:
- You come to Open Web Studio with an idea for a web project, but little or no knowledge of how to get it implemented.
- We ask you to describe your project, and we pair you with a geek who can help.
- You collaborate during the workshop, and hopefully get a good start on the project.
- You take away what you learned and spend the next month doing i.e. building your project.
- You come back to the next Open Web Studio with some progress, perhaps more questions.
- After a few workshops, you will have done your project, and will now be in a position of knowledge.
- You then become a teacher for a new learner in the group, and/or a new learner for a more advanced task.
Open Web Studio participants will build a network of shared learning about the web. It is our hope that this collaborative productive energy will propel an emergence of the medium in Philadelphia’s Visual Arts Community.
If you are interested in partnering with us on these workshop events, or volunteering your time to tech, please contact us!
What to Expect:
At Open Web Studio we have no agenda or lesson, other than helping to fuel your idea for a web project. When you attend, you will be paired one-on-one or in a small group with teachers who can share their expertise to help get your idea off the ground.
What to Bring:
We ask that participants bring a laptop if they have one. We’d like to encourage active hacking during the Open Web Studio, so the more machines we have the better! If you do not have a laptop, no worries, simply come with your idea and some questions.
