World Wide Walls

A Chrome extension to make graffiti on the web

internal, 2022


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.

A www by guerrilla spam
A www by guerrilla spam
A www by guerrilla spam

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.

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