Tuqtuli is a communication principle where signs are lined up like words. It is useful wherever people lack a shared language, an interpreter and translation apps – when travelling, with refugees, in connection with humanitarian aid.
Tuqtuli can be used as a language teaching tool and as a method to enhance understanding where a shared language turns out to be unsatisfactory.
And it’s great fun!
Tuqtuli aims to involve as many as different people as possible as co-creators and testers of a new visual way of global communication. It brings together popular culture of our days with the visual heritage of communities and the creativity of individuals in order to bridge divides and enhance cross-cultural understanding.
The project started last year and since then has been at conferences, festivals and universities in Belgium, Germany, Japan and the USA.
»I can’t draw!« some people might think. »Yes, you can!« they soon discover. Actually, we all know how to tuqtuli – provided we are open to other people’s ways of seeing things.
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