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We have something great to announce! 🔥 Together with a bunch of cool people, we developed www.prikbord.page: A collective web calendar for underground venues & creative spaces in Rotterdam. It all started with a sunny afternoon in 2025: 15 small and niche venues met up in Rotterdam to find the answer to a burning question: How do we collectively get ourselves off Instagram? prikbord.page offers an alternative, automized information route. This website is accessible to all, built by and for venues, and both the code and the server are within our reach in Rotterdam. Want to join with your venue? That's possible!! The official launch is at @roodkapje_rotterdam West on May 29. Check (or prikbord...) for more info. Shout out to the core team: @_._a_._l_._i_._c_._i_._a_._ , Artemis, Enrique, Kiara, Louisa, Luke, @nikvandermeulen , Roos & Rosa And shout out to @stimuleringsfonds for financially supporting this project.

At our next Playground session we will playtest Torn History with Pearse Anderson (@pearseanderson ) FREE [RSVP at [email protected] 18:00 -21:00 (dinner included) Play a game to make a game, with a few twists. Torn History is a new take on a Lost & Found game, a system developed by @mouseholepress for games like Artefact or Skeletons. Lost & Found games center the lifespan of objects and inanimate concepts, from recipes to a nation’s borders, as they grow and change through long stretches of history. As a solo, nonviolent, journaling game, this subgenre becomes a great medium for guided storytelling and dynamic worldbuilding that blooms through millennia in minutes. In Torn History, designer Pearse Anderson will teach workshop participants how to build their own version of a Lost & Found game and then how to quilt these simulated histories together, creating an interconnected collage of game mechanics and stories throughout the room. After playing this game as a group, participants will leave with their own set of rules for a new solo game they’ve created on an A3 sheet. Torn History plays with the physicality of rules through the very paper those rules are printed on—the paper itself can be scribbled on, origamied, and torn. It has also never been tested before, and is ready for curious players and criticism. Duration approximately 2 hours. Dinner will be served at 20:00 with a feedback session on the game’s design. Access and content notes: The workshop will be in English and require participants to write in English. As players bring their own rules and themes into the game, the content will vary. Safety mechanisms will be introduced at the start. >>> Pearse Anderson is an analog game designer, food journalist, speculative fiction author, and baker. His previous games about developing fictional histories include Recipe on Kmiydish Paper, Likeness Machines, and Your True Name, all available at pearseanderson.itch.io. He specializes in games that let people come together at a table to explore topics of food culture, climate change, community-building, and nonviolent resistance. You can read his gaming writing in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and WIRED.

Neocities is back next week on Tuesday night, May 19! Join us at .zip (Rotterdam) or at @sickhouse.nl (Enschede) to work on your personal site. No more brainrot or SLOP, let's handcode websites again and join the community of the Indie Web! May 19 - 6-10 pm Free entrance. Come whenever you want, but if you need some introduction and help, please come at 6! Bring your own laptop, food and drinks. More info: zipspace.nl/agenda

Last Neocities Coding Night on Tuesday was a blast! Thank you all for joining irl and online. And thank you Kiara Jouhanneau for co-hosting. From now on, Sickhouse will join through video portal in the upcoming coding nights! See you at the next one? Again, making a website is not hard if you're doing it together! ✨ Next dates are: May 19 - 6-10pm June 16 - 6-10pm

Join us for a very special edition of Neocities Coding Night on Tuesday April 21! We are teaming up with @sickhouse.nl in Enschede to turn our web coding night into a hybrid event: Join us live at .zip or via video portal at Sickhouse! ✨ Next to that, special guest Kiara Jouhanneau will talk about her ongoing research and the connection between magical thinking, web craft and rabbit holing — and how they can counter online fascism and homogenisation. Neocities Coding Night is a monthly event where we get together and work on our personal websites. To hell with doom scrolling and brainrot, let's make the web fun again by crafting with HTML and CSS! Newbies and pros welcome, bring your own laptop and food. Free entrance. Programme: 18:00: Introduction to Neocities and the Indie Web by Roos 18:30: The web as craft & magical thinking by Kiara 19:00: Let’s work on our websites! Introduction to documentation and sketching tips. 19:15 – 22:00: Work on your website More info: zipspace.nl/agenda

DATA WALK 🛰 (Testing) CameraSpotter Hosted by Centre for BOLD Cities @.zip 13 April 14:00 – 16:00 23 April 13:00 – 15:00 Our friends at Centre of BOLD Cities are developing an app to map surveillance cameras in public space. 🌐 Sign up for one of the two test moments by sending an email to Arthur De Jaeger at [email protected] We invite you to join us in mapping cameras in Rotterdam North. These mapping activities not only help us to identify CCTV cameras but also invite participants to reflect on the mapping app we developed for creating a public camera register for Rotterdam. We see camera mapping as a way to spark conversation, reflection, and contestation around surveillance in public space, rather than simply counting devices. During the meetup, we will also introduce several connected side projects that are woven into our work across Rotterdam. This event is for anyone interested in exploring questions, concerns, and lived experiences related to surveillance technologies in the city.

Upcoming at .zip Tuesday night, March 17. Neocities Coding Night! Never have time for your personal website? You want to bring back the old web? Build one at .zip ✨ During the coding night, we'll help each other out with HTML and CSS issues and have a great time. Free entrance. More info: zipspace.nl/agenda

~--ghost hardware--~ will be a *full day team challenge* to rethink our local digital infrastructure >> Friday, 27 February 2026 from 10:00 - 17:30 To join, choose a team and RSVP before the 25th February via email to [email protected]. Hosted by: .zipper Louisa Teichmann in collaboration with Anouk Geenen, Julieta Matos Castano and Esmeralde Marsman. How can we re-use existing public soft- and hardware to better connect local communities? Participants will work in small teams to rapidly prototype 'ghost hardware': speculative, low-threshold technologies that intervene in public spaces. All prototypes will be presented at the Speculative Futures Evening on 2 April at the Municipality of Rotterdam. During this follow-up event, each prototype will form the basis of a speculative fiction scenario or use case. Participants join one of three teams: ִׄ˚ • 🖥 ࣪˖ ⭑ Team One: Sensor Network to Communication Mesh ₊ ⭒ *ೃ༄ Explore how environmental sensors can form a local messaging network focused on neighbourhood safety. When someone feels unsafe, they can input information into a close by sensor to alert others nearby. Tech suggestions: LoRa, Reticulum, Sensors, Arduino. ִׄ˚ • 🖥 ࣪˖ ⭑ Team Two: Poetic Archives ₊ ⭒ *ೃ༄ Reclaim public spaces as shared archives by combining physical interventions with digital mapping. Add objects, markers or prompts to public spaces to allow people to share knowledge and experiences. Tech suggestions: OpenStreetMap or Google Maps as a gateway to alternative mapping. Pole-mounts, geocaches for physical placement. ִׄ˚ • 🖥 ࣪˖ ⭑ Team Three: Connection Game ₊ ⭒ *ೃ༄ Make invisible questions visible. When entering a public or liminal space, such as a tram, you will see anonymous, asynchronous questions left by others, inviting gentle connection and reducing loneliness. Tech suggestions: Wi-Fi hotspot archives, geofencing, NFC/RFID cards, LED screens.

Let's make the web whimsical again by building our own personal sites! In this monthly meet-up, we'll build "digital gardens" on Neocities. New to HTML or well-seasoned veteran? Everyone is welcome between 6 - 10pm on Tuesday Feb 17. Roos tackles your craziest HTML/CSS problems. And she'll kiss your site on the forehead. BYOF / BYOD and bring your laptop! More info: https://zipspace.nl/neocities6

The collective @zipspace.nl is going to professionalise their artistic workspace with the project 'Artistieke werkplaats .zip' 🎨 Selected for support through our Open Call Professionalisation and Practice Development, this Rotterdam-based artists' collective works on digital culture, queer futures and alternative art forms. The eight members (@roos.gr , @cyannevdh , Louisa Teichmann, @e_ptrs , Charlotte Brand, @allerding.s , @ginevraarvenig and @remcoakkerman ) are using this grant to take their workspace to the next level 🔥 The collective focuses on developing their public programme, improving communication and using their physical space more effectively. They're also strengthening their financial strategy and bringing structure to the organisation's role and task division. This project exemplifies how creative communities can strengthen their organisational capacity while maintaining their artistic vision. #artistiekewerkplaats #digitalculture #queerfutures #collectivepractice #professionalisation #dutchdesign