Issue 8: Finding Beauty in the Imperfect
Spring 2024
Welcome!
As we put the individual articles of this issue together and stepped back, we realised that the theme of “finding beauty in the imperfect” can be viewed not only as a mindset, but also as a loose journey guiding us on how to build a just, sustainable and more humane web. The grouping of these articles reflects that, which we explain in more detail in our editor’s letter.
Editor’s letter
Hannah Smith and Marketa Benisek
10 people share what finding beauty in the imperfect means to them
Issue 8 community-assembled playlist
Hannah Smith and Lima Dastgeer
Meaningful connection
Talking it out: Restoring information ecosystems through authentic human connections
Bárbara Paes and Olivia Johnson
One Movement, Four Wings: Connecting climate strategies
Melissa Hsiung
Connectivity, infrastructure and the defence of the Amazon’s socio-biodiverse ecosystems
Hemanuel Veras
What can digital sustainability learn from accessibility?
Mike Masey
Solarpunk and speculative features
Pause
Jo Lindsay Walton
Care for life, care for the chips: the future is re-used, recycled and permacomputing
Alistair Alexander
Toward a Pragmatic Future: Accepting Imperfect Systems whilst Striving for Regeneration
Oliver Cronk
Solarpunk Meets Better Business: Reimagining a Sustainable Digital Future
Simon Blackler
Ministry of Imagination Manifesto
Rob Hopkins
Octavia’s Future is Here, Now What
Mica Le John
Design philosophy
Designing Friction
Marketa Benisek, Luna Maurer, Roel Wouters
The Wabi Sabi Web
Tom Greenwood
Echoes of electronic waste
Joanna Murzyn
Imperfect design for a better future
Thorsten Jonas
Alternative networks: Consciously designing from within earthly dynamics
Jesse Thompson
Perfection is the enemy of progress
The perfect site doesn’t exist
Michelle Barker
Rabbit holes of perfection
Mary Pitt
From bytes to carbon savings: Immediate’s sustainable transformation of Good Food
Tommy Ferry, Marketa Benisek, Michelle Whitehead, Linzi Ricketts, Filippa Furniss, Graham Martin
Small steps, big goals: Building sustainable change
Kim Lea Rothe
The perfect data paradox
Rory Brown