Building a More Sustainable and Accessible Internet: Lightweight Web Design with HTML and CSS

While the internet has great potential to bring people together, if the internet was a country, it would be the 7th largest energy consumer on the planet. This is set to increase in years to come moving the internet even higher on this list to become the 4th largest energy consumer if it were to be a country. So, as artists and digital citizens it is imperative that we understand how to create and display the content we produce online in ways that are sustainable and accessible. This assignment, while slated for Art 109, may be slotted into an earlier course in the Digital Media Art BFA as we reassess when and how students should learn about these technologies. As an assignment that engages students in 2 programming languages (HTML and CSS), it would take place over the course of 3 - 4 weeks. Finally, in an increasingly networked world (and in particular an increasingly networked art world) empowering students with the both the technical skills to build websites and the critical thinking context to understand how and why they should do so in a sustainable and accessible way will play an essential role in helping them discover and define how they fit into this context.https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sustainable-futures-prompts/1004/thumbnail.jp