ShiftSpace: Online Unitary Urbanism Workshop

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Artist: Mushon Zer-Aviv + Dan Phiffer
Website: www.ShiftSpace.org

A workshop using the ShiftSpace platform to explore the web as a continuous public space. PLEASE BRING A LAPTOP TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS WORKSHOP.

While the Internet’s design is widely understood to be open and distributed, control over how users interact online has given us largely centralized and closed systems. The web has followed the physical transformation of the city’s social center from the (public) town square to the (private) mall. ShiftSpace attempts to subvert this trend by providing a new public space on the web.

By pressing the [Shift]+[Space] keys, a ShiftSpace user can invoke a new meta layer above any web page to browse and create additional interpretations, contextualizations and interventions by using various authoring tools.

For Conflux 2007, ShiftSpace invite participants from all technical background to a collaborative web-based derive, in which we will attempt to challenge the segregation and privatization of the world wide web.