What?

FB Resistance is a research initiative and hands-on workshop series to rethink and change the frame that Facebook is setting for us.

Facebook is defining our identity and social interactions in digital space. The code is the law (A quote by Lawrence Lessig). What would you do if you could change it? This workshop shows you how. Let's inspire each other and work on concepts to alter Facebook.com!!

Workshops

• Unlike Us Conference, Amsterdam
  February 23rd, 2013
• School of the Arts, Amsterdam
  June 2012
• Meetinghub Conference, Denmark, Aalborg
  September 10th, 2011
• Mediamatic, Amsterdam
  April 22nd, 2011
• CIS India, Bangalore
  April 2nd, 2011
• Kitsch Digital Exhibit, Barcelona
  February 19th, 2011
• Transmediale Festival, Berlin
  February 4th, 2011

The Workshop

FB Resistance’s workshops are both conceptual and concrete. On the one hand freedom is explored through the re-imagination of Facebook and on the other hand ideas are actualized into prototypes, mock-ups and functional user scripts. Critical, subversive and fun ideas emerge out of the workshops. Moreover, the participants are also given the opportunity to experiment with browser hacks that are inherent to the initiative, actualized inspiring ideas that might be elaborated on. Furthermore, ideas of the participants, relevant available hacks, software projects and artworks are ironically shared on an open Facebook Group: FB Resistance Artists.

Here are some links to write-ups of past workshop: [1], [2]