An edited volume of intersectional feminist perspectives on teaching and learning code.

About

The Critical Coding Cookbook assembles perspectives on coding that diverge from the concept of "good" code as efficient code, with optimization and performance as core aspirational values. Assembled from an open call, the recipes represent a wide range of contributors whose work is organized thematically by "breakfast", "lunch", and "dinner", as well as by specific programming language where applicable.

Each entry includes a brief Q&A with the contributor, providing context and clarity regarding the author's understanding of the relationship between their work and intersectional feminism.

Process

The site was built with Kirby as the CMS, and Codepen to generate graphics for the splash page. Visual identity, website design, and implementation by Kevin Cadena. Munus Shih designed the Critical Coding Cookbook Reader and social media assets. Taylor Paydos worked on previous visual identity and web design for the initial call for contributions.

Considerations

Credits

The Critical Code Cookbook is led and edited by Xin Xin and Katherine Moriwaki. Financial support in the form of a School Based Fund award was provided by the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design, The New School University.

Though contributions to the Critical Coding Cookbook come from around the world, we pay our respects to the Lenape people, and their unceded sovereign land, upon which this currently New York based team live and work.

License & Copyright

The Creative Code Cookbook has been published digitally under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License. Some specific recipes have been released by their author under different agreements. Unless otherwise noted, recipes and the zine fall under this agreement for adaptations of work to be shared with attribution, as long as others share alike, and are engaged in non-commercial (not-for-profit) use of the work.