Storytelling for the Service and Repair of Code
with the London Permacomputing Club
13 December 2025, 11:00 CET @osmo/za

Workshop Introduction & Goals
“Repair, after all, is a social activity.” – Shannon Mattern
This workshop explores code as a medium for communicating methodology to human readers. Through practices of Literate Programming and explanatory storytelling, we will examine the “repair manual” as a form and the relationships we develop with our functional digital possessions.

Participants will look at the history of home-repair manuals and consider the boundaries of traditional code documentation. We will work together through an example piece of code or a digital project and develop a literate manual that explains its theory of operation. Attendees will produce similar resources using whatever literary or artistic methods best clarify their chosen piece, contributing to a collective anthology.

What Participants Will Be Doing

• Discuss the role of code as a communicative tool.
• Study examples of manuals and documentation practices.
• Create a literate, story-driven explanation of a code sample or digital artefact.
• Collaborate in groups to produce materials for a compiled anthology on software repair and understanding.

Tehnične zahteve:
Udeleženci naj seboj prinesejo vsaj en primer delujoče kode ali kreativnega tehnološkega projekta (svojega ali tujega). Izberete lahko projekt, ki vam je posebej blizu in ga želite delit z ostalimi, ali pa nekaj, kar bi radi bolj podrobno raziskali.

Practical Requirements
Participants should bring at least one sample of working code or a creative tech project (their own or someone else’s) to include in the compendium. This could be a project you enjoy explaining or something you want to explore more deeply.
The literate programming tools demonstrated will require:

• A computer capable of running Python 3
• Any text or code editor of your choice

Feel free to bring additional artistic tools if they help you tell the story of your chosen piece—we will assist in integrating these into the final work.

How to register?
The workshop will be held in English and is free of charge. Registration will open soon! For more information, please write to delavnice@projekt-atol.si.