Found via Jay Springett, Nancy Wu’s thesis project, “A Website is a Room“.
I came to this conclusion sometime during quarantine when I realized that certain websites give me a sense of shelter and rest more than others.
These spaces that particularly stood out to me all had some quality of slowness, quiet, and/or gathering.
We ought to carefully examine the qualities of the living environment that each web space provides for us.
Nancy Wu
The result is a semi-curated list of websites (some blogs, some just random sites) with a little info about what sort of space that site is. I’m looking forward to exploring the (fairly lengthy) list of sites as I have time to do so.
I kind of like the metaphor – it’s not true for every site, but there are absolutely sites where it works. For whatever reason, it brings to mind the infinite rooms of the world of Piranesi (by Susanna Clarke). I’m picturing sites as rooms filled with statues, and somewhere in there is the sea.