Responsive Web Design Syllabus
An open basket of Black feminism in and outside the browser
Seeda School has been on my spirit since 2019. I was living in Brooklyn and working full-time teaching an uninspired software engineering curriculum to a group of incredibly inspired students. I started visioning and dreaming of a transdisciplinary place where writers coded alongside software engineers and biotechnologists sculpted clay alongside ceramicists. A place where we were all bound up through the singing suffering singing suffering singing suffering of Black feminism. It wasn’t until 2020, that the story of Cykofa would emerge and I realized Seeda was an ancient-future ancestor, suspended in a parallel universe waiting for us to remember to build the world we need, with what we have, right where we are.
Why Seeda School? Why software engineering? Why biotechnology? I ask myself these questions often and imagining how Black feminists might invent new ways of being through bending, breaking, collaborating, dueting, remixing, collaging, weaving, quilting, burning, dancing, loving with code is an erotic enough daydream to keep me questioning and it’s always, always the questions that keep me going.
I believe a syllabus is a form, a vessel, an open basket holding an open question — an invitation, “Here are some seeds I gathered. How will you share your harvest, and what meals might you make with it? Who will it feed and what seeds will they share inspired by your nourishment?” An open question, an invitation, a loop of speculation — food satiating our collective imagination across time. A syllabus can take the form of an Ebony Jr. magazine, a play, or a dinner party, but here I want to offer an open question in the form of a week by week breakdown of how we might learn HTML and CSS alongside Black feminist scholars and artists.
Inside the Responsive Web Design syllabus you will find:
A guided outline for earning the freeCodeCamp Responsive Web Design certification
Five coding portfolio project ideas inspired by Black feminist research and practice
Pouches of Black feminist resources curated for each project
An abundance of extended Black feminist resources to chew on at your leisure
The organizing framework of this offering is time based. If desired, one could build 5 portfolio projects over the course of 15 weeks if devoting 15 hours each week. If time boxed learning and accountability structures work best for you, I am now offering weekly virtual coaching to provide support and guidance on your coding journey. With that said, the invitation to work at your own pace is always, always, always on the table just like this document — a warm plate, waiting for you to pick it up.
Download the digital syllabus to interact with the links inside the document.
Download the PDF syllabus designed for print.
It is my intention that this is a living document ~ infinitely changing ~ responding to the web of our needs. If time allows, please write to me with your thoughts, suggestions, and affirmations.
Would love to hear from you,
Ayana