Writing is the transforming process of spoken language through the symbolic representation of sound,which allows for the exchange and preservation of memory and information. Writing systems are a human creation, part of an artificial and human-conceived code which makes sense only when interpreted under the light of a cultural system. Like language, writing evolves with its speakers, growing and adapting to their needs and overcoming [...]

Here goes the letter.        

Letters are symbols. Language is sound. Letters are space. Language is time. Letters are patterns. Language is organic. Letters paint pictures. Language explain concepts.

The research.        

Writing is the transforming process of spoken language through the symbolic representation of sound,which allows for the exchange and preservation of memory and information. Writing systems are a human creation, part of an artificial and human-conceived code which makes sense only when interpreted under the light of a cultural system. Like language, writing evolves with its speakers, growing and adapting to their needs and overcoming [...]

The starting point for this project was to explore writing as a Human construction, simultaneously artificial yet inseparable from the nature of culture. While dialects change with speakers, sign systems are easily appropriated by them. Alphabets are in that sense malleable to different perspectives. While still evolving, the elementary units by which they are composed – the letter – claim no ownership. We therefore reflect on the importance [...]