On saturday mornings at the Somerset House Exchange from 9am-1pm we invite you to skip brunch and bring your website to our repair cafe & coffee bar. Our webmasters will teach you how to build, repair, troubleshoot and debug, or otherwise maintain your own website by yourself and to better surf the hyperlinks. Bottomless coffee & tea will be provided.
Here we're all 'techy people' and we welcome complete beginners. You can drop in anytime between 9am and 1pm and with a working laptop. Each session will be up to 10 participants with one experienced technician. We won't be fixing things on your behalf however we will walk you through the process of repairing your own website. We aim to better your relationship with the web (and with tech) by empowering you to modify it for youself by yourself!
What we can help you with:
- Setting up a website host
- Buying a domain name
- Connecting your host to your domain name
- Installing Wordpress
- Uploading files with an FTP
- Changing a font or colour (CSS)
- Embedding a subscribe form
- Adding a hyperlink
- and more!
Technicians - Emil Woudenberg
I design under the name Strike Design Studio (SDS) from Toronto but currently working in London. My clients include, not limited to, Wetransfer, Autodesk and Roots. My work has been exhibited at Sam Fox School, The Bentway, MOCA Toronto and Printed Matter's Art Book Fair. I have completed residencies with UKAI, Montez Press, SuperHi, Trinity Square Video, Digital Justice League, MOCA Toronto, and Whippersnapper Gallery. My transdisciplinary practice focuses on independent, queer, do-it-yourself, de-platformed, open-source urgent digital publishing. In my practice-led research, I explore these not-so-new alternative radical online space(s), their technicality, the communities that occupy them and their politics.
Recent Projects: https://www.makingroom.online , https://memory-work.com/ , https://longhousetohighrise.github.io/, https://www.workplace.show/
