The tuqtuli project started in 2024. Since then it has been at festivals, conferences, events and universities in nine cities in five countries on three continents.
Belgium
- Brussels ……… 2 days tuqtuli workshop at the New European Bauhaus Festival at the Musée Art et Histoire together with 12 team members. 9 of them were Juli’s students from the ecosign Akademie, Cologne, Germany. Additional team members were the designer and design researcher Dr. Karel van der Waarde from Brussels, Belgium, teaching in Luzern, Switzerland, Juli and her husband Jörg Gudehus, a computer scientist. The participants were aged between 4 and 72. They spoke 27 different languages including Catalan, Albanian, Montenegrin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Suomi, Japanese, Dutch, Esperanto, and Greek. They had very different professional backgrounds like therapist, journalist, patent attorney, physicist, social media manager, urban planner, acoustic engineer.
France
- Clermont-Ferrand ……… tuquli talk at the Pendant l’apéro design event at the co-working space Le Portemine and 2 hours curated tuquli workshop the other day. Afterwards, Juli traveled with her host Loïc Marleix to Paris, where they met up with Olivier Morin, Edgar Walthert and several other people who, like them, are working on and researching pictographic languages.
Germany
- Berlin ……… 2 days open workshop in cooperation with Luisella Ströbele and her former fashion label icke, Berlin (now luis ella) as part of the 48 h Neukölln Festival. A distinctly international audience was invited to transfer their individual pictographic messages onto T‑shirts, have their photo taken wearing them and take them home with them.
- Berlin ……… 8 days curated tuqtuli workshop at the Media University of Applied Sciences with 17 students from the field of visual communication and game design aged between 20 and 23. They came from 9 countries and spoke 12 different languages – Bulgarian, Catalan, English, Farsi, German, Hindi, Norwegian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, and Vietnamese.
- Berlin ……… 3 hours curated tuqtuli workshop at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library). This renowned research institution usually offers fascinating insights into the past through its collections and programme. This time, it opened its doors to an excursion into the fusence of communication based on sequences of signs.
- Cologne ……… tuqtuli teaching assignment at the ecosign Akademie with 12 students from the field of visual communication aged between 21 and 31
- Krumbach ……… 3 hours curated tuqtuli workshop at the TypoSalon of the Forum Typografie with 16 participants, one of them from Ukraine, all of them from the field of visual communication
- Oberau ……… talk plus 2 hours open tuqtuli workshop at the »Interdisziplinäre Pfingsttagung« (Interdisciplinary Whitsun Conference) 22 participants from very different professional backgrounds like journalist, architect, IT specialist, personnel manager, tailor, illustrator, educator, art historian. The participants spoke 8 different languages including German, Russian, Spanish, English, Italian, French, Polish, and Dutch.
Internet
- »Symbol ’24: Icons for Society: Past, Present & Future«, a virtual conference supported by the British Academy and The Wellcome Trust, organised by The Symbol Group ……… talk
Japan
- Kyoto ……… 4 days curated tuqtuli workshop at the Doshisha joshi daigaku with 16 students aged between 19 and 23 studying graphic design, screenplay, media creation, sound design, and film
- Kyoto ……… talk and 1 hour open tuqtuli workshop at the »from now on« conference together with 6 of Juli’s students from the 4 days workshop at the Doshisha joshi daigaku as team members next to a presentation of the results of the previous student workshop
USA
- Palo Alto ……… 3 hours curated tuqtuli workshop at the Henry M. Gunn High School with 12 students speaking 7 different languages aged between 15 and 17 together with Claudia Schröppel, their teacher, as a team member
- San Francisco ……… 1 day open tuqtuli workshop together with the Goethe Institute at the first EU festival in the Golden Gate Park. An additional team member was Juli’s husband Jörg. The participants spoke 13 different languages including Croatian, Farsi, French, Hindi, Malagasy, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Tagalog. They had professional backgrounds like baker, chemist, consultant, designer, florist, geologist, physicist, teacher, trainer, translator