--- 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 [dialogue workshop](https://wdc2026.org/en/events/tuqtuli-oder-dialogwerkstatt) at the [Museum Angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Arts)](https://www.museumangewandtekunst.de/) recently 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’. In a first fullday workshop, students from the Hochschule für öffentliches Management und Sicherheit (HöMS) (Hessian University of Applied Sciences for Public Management and SecurityS), studying police and administration, learned to communicate using the tuqtuli principle. Building on the idea of the later workshop on the »[Frankfurt Jacket](https://wdc2026.org/de/events/die-demokratische-frankfurter-jacke-oder-dialogwerkstatt)«, the second fullday »[Frankfurt Message](https://www.juligudehus.net/img/entries/tuqtuli/TUQTULI-Workshop-Frankfurter-Botschaft-WDC-Campus-MAK.mov)« workshop focussed on a message in tuqtuli, which will be incorporated into the political garment. Your democratic attitude could find expression here as a greeting, a personal statement or a reminder to yourself. In addition to these, Juli gave a talk on the tuqtuli project, followed by a panel discussion about its potential and future prospects. Guests included Dr Eliane Ettmüller / Frankfurt / scholar of Islamic and political studies, active in the field of educational work; Dr Tobias Gantner / Cologne / doctor, now a consultant in health literacy; and Andreas Knauf / Darmstadt / lawyer specialising in copyright and trademark law. On 3 July, from 2 pm, Juli will once again be running the »Frankfurter Botschaft« 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 is 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 is pictographic communication. Specifically, it involves translating instructions for various medicines into tuqtuli. To this end, the students may 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. The resulting works will be exhibited in various locations as part of 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/). ## 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, ibuproject member [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 April, in Berlin, Juli spoke about the tuqtuli project at [SoireeXD](https://www.soiree-xd.com/?utm_source=luma). Also in Kathrin Kunze’s MedTalk podcast Juli talked about the tuqtuli project. You can watch the whole conversation [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZzvrH54ldk) on YouTube. On 10 June she presented the ibuproject there. At the monthly meetings of [Pharmacists for Future](https://pharmacistsforfuture.org) she presented it for the first time. You can watch the talk [here](https://youtu.be/_eUffcTAB-Q) (in German). For the audience, the talks at all of the venues were a real eye-opener! 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. [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. ## team One of the ibuproject team members, [Alicia Link](https://alicialink.de/), has joined tuqtuli as a temporary team member. \\o/ She is currently working on a book edition of the results of phase 1 of the ibuproject. You will be able to order this documentation via this website.