--- title: "now & soon" date: 2025-08-13T18:23:00+02:00 author: admin canonical_url: "https://tuqtuli.com/now-soon" section: Einträge --- # now & soon ## part of this year’s World Design Capital Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is this year’s [World Design Capital 2026](https://wdc2026.org/en), WDC. As part of this, [Juli](https://tuqtuli.com/who-initiated-tuqtuli) was invited to host a one day [dialogue workshop](https://wdc2026.org/en/events/tuqtuli-oder-dialogwerkstatt) at the [Museum Angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Arts)](https://www.museumangewandtekunst.de/) in May and to set up a WDC campus project in the run-up to this event. The tuqtuli project is definitely a perfect fit for their motto ​‘design for democracy’. On 3 July, Juli once again ran the »[Frankfurt Message](https://www.juligudehus.net/img/entries/tuqtuli/TUQTULI-Workshop-Frankfurter-Botschaft-WDC-Campus-MAK.mov)« workshop at the Museum Angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Arts), this time at the opening of the WDC Campus exhibition »[dreams, ideas & prototypes](https://wdc2026.org/en/frames/wdc-campus-exhibition)«. ## teaching In the summer semester of 2026, Juli was standing in for Prof. Daniel Utz with a seminar on the topic of ​‘visual thinking’ in the master’s programme strategic design at the [Hochschule für Gestaltung (University of Design) in Schwäbisch Gmünd](https://signup.hfg-gmuend.de/laborwoche-25/workshops/tuqtuli), Germany. The subject of this seminar was pictographic communication. Specifically, it involved translating instructions for various medicines into tuqtuli. To this end, the students could draw on the expertise of [the ibuproject](https://tuqtuli.com/the-ibuproject) member and pharmacologist [Muna Khalil](https://www.linkedin.com/in/munakhalil/) and engage in discussions with students of linguistics professor [Bettina Bock](https://idsl2.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/institut/personen/lehrendenseiten/prof-dr-bettina-m-bock) at the University of Cologne, Germany. The resulting works will be exhibited in various locations as part of [the milulayu project](https://tuqtuli.com/the-milulayu-project). At the same time, this seminar forms part of the contribution to Frankfurt’s programme as World Design Capital. In the summer, the students’ tuqtuli translations will be featured in the WDC Campus exhibition at the [Museum Angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Arts)](https://www.museumangewandtekunst.de/). In the winter semester, Juli will continue working on the milulayu project with students in the International Master in Integrated Design (MAID), a branch of the Department of Design in the [Bauhaus University](https://www.hs-anhalt.de/en/start-page.html) in Dessau, Germany. ## cooperation Meanwhile, phase 2 of [the ibuproject](https://tuqtuli.com/the-ibuproject) has been completed. During this phase of the first international tuqtuli collaboration, we merged 11 preliminary concepts into 4 optimized versions. We will now test these in phase 3. Our aim is to develop pictorial instructions for a simple painkiller, ibuprofen. Recently, [Adam Yeo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-yeo/), assistant professor of graphic design, and lecturer-researcher at the [University of Bondoukou](https://www.ubkou.edu.ci), Côte d’Ivoire, had his students translate the medical instructions for ibuprofen into tuqtuli – and so did [Loïc Marleix](https://design-brouhaha.com/) with his students at [Strate Lyon](https://www.strate.design/en), France! ## talks and workshops In May in Vienna, Austria, the ibuproject was part of [The Symbol Group conference](https://www.visionplus.iiid.net/symbol26conference) about »examining inclusivity, diversity and universality in visual languages« and Juli ran a full-day, open tuqtuli workshop at the [IIID Vision+ Conference](https://www.visionplus.iiid.net/programme-vp26), which was held in conjunction with The Symbol Group conference. From 24 to 28 August in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Juli will give a five-day open tuqtuli workshop at the [»Word, Image and Social Dynamics« conference](https://iaswis2026amsterdam.framer.website) of IAWIS, International Association of Word and Image Studies. [Vienna Design Week](https://www.viennadesignweek.at/en/) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. As part of the celebrations, it is staging an anniversary symposium to examine the current state of discourse and the socio-cultural position of the design sector. It examines the current state of the design world through the lens of the »Five Stages of Grief«: »Denial«, »Anger« & »Bargaining«, »Depression« & »Nostalgia« and »Acceptance«. Juli will be hosting the »Acceptance« session. Also as part of Vienna Design Week, Juli will be running a one-day tuqtuli workshop at the [New Design University](https://www.ndu.ac.at/en) in St. Pölten on 25 September. For next year, the [Liepāja Central Scientific library](http://www.liepajasczb.lv) has invited tuqtuli with a workshop from 5 to 9 May. As 9 May is [Europe Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe_Day), the workshop’s theme will be Europe’s motto »[united in diversity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motto_of_the_European_Union)«. This fits the city wonderfully, as a third of its residents – much like in the rest of Latvia – speak Russian or are of Russian origin. Additionally, there are widespread differences in wealth and age. As Juli speaks neither Russian nor Latvian, we plan to bring in other team members who can interpret and are more familiar with the issues affecting local people.