draft_project_proposal.txt

1_ What do you want to make?
Something that is poetic and maybe a bit mystical, that highlights the links between wxmen, magic, community building and the internet as an intertwined network of links.
Probably a web interface offering a non-linear browsing experience.
((hyperlink ~~ hyperfeminine))

2_ How do you plan to make it?

☼ Collecting — Through readings, for now the idea is to collect and showcase a collection of ideas and principles revolving around the concepts and ideas highlighted in this draft.

☼ Reflecting — After gathering those collections, I will add on them: connecting them and adding my own thoughts.

☼ Connecting: fiction — An idea that may or may not be implemented is to insert narration, to create a journey, guided by themes interconnecting the topics and thus creating a non-linear travel through them.

3_ What is your timetable?
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4_ Why do you want to make it?
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5_ Who can help you and how?

☼ Marloes de Valk and Lídia Pereira for broader context, writing help and references

☼ Doriane Timmermans for collaborative creation and community building

☼ Zineb Ammar, my friend, and the whole GoLibreGirls collective we are building together

☼ Rosa Schuurmans, Louisa Teichmann and Roos Groothuizen in the context of prikbord.page; and relation to XPUB as well as indie web

☼ Isabelle Cargol with conversations on reconnecting to our inner strength, the power of the Earth and the cosmos, the sacred feminine and unseen/invisible manifestations

☼ The Varia crew

6_ Relation to previous practice

☼ Since January 2023 I have been part of the maintainers at PrePostPrint and an active member of the community. As maintainers, we take care of the digital infrastructure of the community, such as the website, mailing list, matrix chat room and other digital tools we (might) use. We gather (bi-)monthly online to talk together and make decisions that may or may not be subject to the community's vote.

☼ I also have been part of various student bodies/unions and am now part of The Archipelago, the PZI student body.

☼ This past year, I have been building Lilas Prose's website. Her work is rooted in poetry, femininity, recycling and repurposing, so for her website we worked in tied collaboration, and the website is now available, in a temporary shape until I can safely transfer it into a CMS so Lilas can use and modify it by herself and thus gain full autonomy on it. So this powerful feminine collaboration is bound to last and evolve.

☼ My graduation project in 2021, Rêves Party, is a collection of texts taken from French literature, inviting to dream and wander. The texts are chosen for their relation to time, dreaming, traveling, wandering, escaping. The narration is obviously non-linear as the texts are not sorted by their publication date but by a logical way by which the texts respond to one another. Since 2021, the book has gained 4 texts, one being from Lilas Prose, and I plan on making an English version, based on British/American literature.

7_ Relation to a larger context
A lot of the different communities and collectives I have been part of are very male-driven. Men (or boys sometimes) are overly present, taking a lot of space and decision power. I am curious as to why this is a tendency and how we can shift it, take the power back and invite wxmen to be more present, or to drive their own communities. Those communities might be inclusive or exclusive, that is a choice that rests in the communities' hands. The aim here is to highlight the power of sorority, and the privileged place we should give to the sacred feminine. How does this magic we bear empower communities and digital/tech-oriented initiatives? Why is it instinctively erased? Why are wxmen driven projects so deeply buried? How can we (re)claim the space and our voices?

Previous notes on research topics that could very much end up feeding the global picture

☼ Patience | Learning. Making puzzles. Coding and debugging (links to the Handmade Web text by JR Carpenter and her praising of smallness and slowness as key points of the handmade web). Designing. Writing. Reading. Relationships. Activism. Making a change. Taking part/Taking action. Maintaining. It is all around us. Zoning out. Attention deficit. Daydreaming. How they communicate, intertwine, fail. Automation. Tricks. Hacks. Getting around the issues?

--- [About slowness - discussion on Executing Micro-Temporality] if the throbber appears I'm just closing the page, I'm not going to wait for that! and our relationship towards instantaneous against patience/taking the time

☼ Femininity and magic | something I considered researching at first was the symbols of the sacred and the invisible. This rose by reading Brigitte Pietzark's book, in which she transcribes conversations she has with entities from the invisible world. This relationship to the unseen and the realm of souls is deeply tied to magic representations such as witches, but also deeply rooted in the feminine.

8_ References/bibliography

1. Previous XPUB works

☼ Syster Papyri Magicae, Artemis Gryllaki, 2020

☼ Let's Talk About Unspeakable Things, Angeliki Diakrousi, 2019

☼ Unlearning the Rules of Collectivity, Giulia de Giovanelli, 2018

2. About non-linearity, browsing, investigating and poetic/contemplating navigation/exploration

☼ Outer Wilds

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