Given the importance of the creation of space to hypermedia design, these readings are the most crucial part of the pedagogy and should probably be spread throughout the term and discussed heavily.

• Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space (Selected readings)
• Jay Bolter, Writing Spaces: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print (Selected Readings)

The key to creation of the new hypertext spaces is going to be meta-commentary. Including a meta-critical portion in the assignment (along the lines of Gregory Ulmer's student-generated rulesets and rubrics) makes explicit the process of new space creation.

• Work on a web project assimilating both author and a topic related to social justice work. How does the political nature of the conversation between the two change in the medium? Use local resistances to global problems and be sure to build a porous space.