What if the web truly becomes a public space, and websites become walls where everyone can draw, and see everyone else's drawings?



World Wide Walls is a tool to experience web pages as if they were city walls in a real street: everyone can draw something for anyone else to see. Users can leave a mark, write, sketch or doodle some nonsense, or simply explore the web with a new public layer on top.
THE PROCESS
the web
is your
wall
World Wide Walls is a browser extension that creates a drawable area over web pages and stores them in a database. The extension is compatible with all the Chromium-based browsers, such as Chrome, Brave and Opera.
A web page is generally a read-only container that we consume in an
unalterable form. For a lot of reasons like security, we cannot change
what's written inside a newspaper, nor add elements in a form we are
compiling. The flow of actions and information is predetermined and the
only places for an intervention as a user is delimited inside prebuilt
forms and buttons.
Obviously the internet would be quite a messy place without effective web design
and development. However, what seems to miss from our point of view is the
freedom of the user to express themselves, to communicate with others, or simply
to write something next to a text they find interesting.



Writing in the physical public space has different meanings - a signature or a tag is a way to manifest the passage or existence of a person. Messages (political or not) are left on walls as a way for others to see. Street art and graffiti are public displays of an artist's work. What wall you choose, its position and prominence is also a decision itself that people make in the physical realm.