As a final project for Participatory Networks last year, I proposed a small web network called Can Do, with the following mission:

Can Do is a collection of small steps everyone can take to enact positive change in the environment, based on the belief that building a community of people interested in taking some of these small steps can a powerful motivating tool, and empower us with the knowledge of our collective impact.

Beyond a working test site, I was never able to actually build this project and see how it lives out in the real world. In the year since proposing it, I have also reconsidered the idea of this as a stand-alone site. In my explorations of the notion of place online in my thesis, I have often wondered about Facebook, and why it is that its particular blend of features and tools beat out so many others like it, and somehow transformed into the social center of the internet for so many people.

Regardless of why it happened, I would like to take Can Do and redesign it as a Facebook application, to take advantage of its strong infrastructure and the built in connection that so many people already have to it. This would involve redesigning the basic flow of interaction to fit into the Facebook architecture, as well as reconsidering the graphic language used within FB.

(Week of) Jan 5:
class proposals
Research Facebook architecture
Redraw Can Do site architecture

Jan 12:
Design sketches
Coding begins

Jan 19:
More coding

Jan 26:
Finishing up coding
Small scale testing

Feb 2:
Testing, tweaking, etc.

Feb 9:
final presentations
Show the project!
Invite people to add it