Design: Eva Bevec
DATE: Saturday, 30 May 2026 | 10:00–16:00
LOCATION: Kino Šiška, Ljubljana
MENTOR: Marie Verdeil
PARTICIPATION: The workshop is free of charge, suitable for all skill levels and will be held in English. The number of participants is limited. Please register using the online form. Bring your own old, retired or current Android smartphone (see requirements below).
About the workshop
Nowadays, we often hear about the “cloud” as a way to describe the online services that we access daily, such as emails, social media, data storage, video-streaming, AI chat bots, etc. But what does the internet really look like behind this fog screen?
Starting from our most intimate and familiar device – the smartphone – this workshop aims to explore the material infrastructure that supports our online lives. Practically, we learn how to repurpose discarded smartphones into web servers hosting a simple webpage. This practice helps us imagine other ways of building an internet, one that places autonomy, reuse and the respect of our planetary limits as priorities.
This workshop format was initially developed by Marie Verdeil and Rein van der Woerd. The inspiration for this workshop first came from the mobile solar server developed by Rein in 2024 for composting.computer’s exhibition website at Creative Coding Utrecht
Requirements
This workshop is made for Android smartphones and tablets from the last 10 years (2015–2025), the following features are necessary:
- Android 5 or above (Android 7 or above is preferable) (check in Settings > About Phone)
- Functioning Wi-Fi
- Working charging port
In case you don’t have access to a suitable Android smartphone, check out the alternatives here or contact us at info@ljudmila.org.
Mentor
Marie Verdeil is a French designer and artist based in Brussels. Her transdisciplinary projects – websites, workshops, installations, publications, tools – advocate for an autonomous, transparent, environmentally aware and critical approach to technology. Since graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven (2022), she uses design to imagine desirable futures that are aligned with planetary limits.