---
post_type: "project"
link: "https://isiaurbino.net"
title: "ISIA Urbino Digital Platform"
blurb: "A publishing platform that uses Google Drive as its CMS, so people write in tools they already know and the software turns it into a website."
chapter: "Studio & client work"
tags:
    - website
    - publishing platform
year:
    - 2020

stack:
    - React
    - html/css
    - Typescript
    - Nodejs
    - GraphQl
    - Google API
order: 888
---
[isiaurbino.net](https://isiaurbino.net)

`with` [`Zero Dot Zero`](http://zerodotzero.net)

This was about six months of work with Zero Dot Zero, a continuation of an earlier project of ours in experimental and digital publishing. The platform uses Google Drive and Google Calendar as its CMS. People write and edit in GDocs, Sheets, Calendar, or whatever file they have in Drive, and the software reads that, processes it, and serves it publicly through a REST and a GraphQL API.

The point was to not make anyone learn a new tool. You keep the software you already use, and the system fits around it. Years later that idea is most of what I do — software that reads your existing data and adapts to you, rather than asking you to come to it.

Accreditation:

ISIA Urbino Identity:
ZeroDotZero


Software Architecture & Development:
Amir Houieh


Concept & Design:
Maaike Besseling, Thomas Castro, Michiel Terpelle


Identity Implementation:
Maloe Brinkman, Thomas Castro, Jurrit van der Ploeg


Coordination:
Wietske Flederus, Floor Weijs