DWeb for Creators
Knowledge Base
DWeb for Creators is an online course that empowers artists, designers, archivists, gallerists, curators, and others with the knowledge and tools necessary for exploring the decentralized web. Participants in this course engage with technologies like blockchain and mesh networks; examine case studies in curation, publishing, data sovereignty, and community building; and apply decolonial approaches to world building as they envision the future of DWeb technologies.
Created as part of the DWeb for Creators course, this interactive index contains course videos, lecture notes, classroom activity guides, readings, and other references for creators interested in learning more about the decentralized web. All materials from this course are available open source under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license here and on GitHub.
The course's curriculum was created by Gray Area and a team of experienced instructors and advisors working at multiple intersections of the decentralized web: Ayana Zaire Cotton, Kelani Nichole, mai ishikawa sutton, ngọc triệu, Regina Harsanyi, Sarah Friend, Sarah Grant, and Roxi Shohadaee.
DWeb for Creators is made possible by the support of Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web.
Introduction to Decentralized Web (Dweb) and Its Cultural Foundations
Command Line for Creatives
Dweb Lexicon and Ecosystem
Data Sovereignty and Storage
The Evolution of Dweb Art, Activism and History
Critical Dweb Art Projects + Practices
Values and Philosophical Underpinnings of Dweb
Cloudbusting! Self-Hosting Your Own Web Services
Governance, Cooperative Ownership, and Cross-institutional Collaboration
Introducing Decentralized Social Media
Diversification of Storage Practices
Archiving and Preservation in DWeb
Decentralization: Sovereignty, Power, and Critical Practice in Dweb
DIY Long Range (LoRa) Meshed Networks with Meshtastic
DWeb's Social and Community Impact