mastodon 4.6.9Tuqtuli is a communication principle where signs are lined up like words. It is useful wherever people lack a shared language and corresponding help.
Tuqtuli aims to involve as many as different people as possible as co-creators and testers of a new visual way of global communication. Like you!
The project started in 2024 and since then has been at conferences, festivals and universities in Belgium, Germany, Japan and the USA.
You are welcome to co-create and cooperate!
Signs are part of our every day life, worldwide … like these three. They look similar but have different meanings: 1) the logo of Santander, a German bank, 2) the logo of steinecke, a German bakery chain, 3) the symbol for an Onsen, a hot spring in Japan. Which sign(s) caught your attention today? #signsofthecity #signsoflife #immaterialculturalheritage #intangibleculturalheritage #tuqtuli
Also in Toulouse, France, every station on the Metro has its own icon. They are highlighting the city’s cultural and historical heritage. People with cognitive, visual or mental disabilities, as well as foreigners and illiterate people, can therefore identify metro stops more easily. https://toulousesecret.com/en/pictograms-metro-toulouse/ #signsoflife #signsofthecity
Every station on the Mexico City Metro has its own icon. When they started many of the population at the time were illeterate. Santiago de Chile had the same tradition but, sadly, it was abandoned. #signsoflife #signsofthecity
Frühe Emojis von Ludwig Wittgenstein – ein Fundstück von Christoph Drösser
Signs are part of our every day life, worldwide … like these in Berlin, Germany. Which sign(s) caught your attention today? #signsofthecity #signsoflife #immaterialculturalheritage #intangibleculturalheritage
@tickets@stefanbohacek.online Hi … are you interested in »donations«?
As communication via icons seems to be in the air one of Julis students at the Media University Berlin, Pauline Heckmann, unaware of Mexico City and Toulouse, created icons for tube stations in Berlin in one of Juli's TUQTULI workshops last autumn #signsoflife #signsofthecity
Signs are part of our every day life, worldwide … like these in Friedrichshagen, Germany. Which sign(s) caught your attention today? #signsofthecity #signsoflife #immaterialculturalheritage #intangibleculturalheritage
Signs of our every day life are part of our imaginary visual dictionaries … like these in Berlin, Germany. Which sign(s) caught your attention today? #signsofthecity #signsoflife #immaterialculturalheritage #intangibleculturalheritage
@juligudehus@typo.social' »Genesis« in dem soeben erschienenen Ausstellungskatalog »Sieben Tage – Bilder zur Schöpfung« … Auch in der Kirche geht es viel um Bildhaftes und um Symbole. Und es geht um friedvolle, friedensstiftende Kommunikation! Entsprechend wären TUQTULI-Workshops ideal für die Kirche, für kirchliche Träger, für den Kirchentag oder eine theologischen Fakultät. Wenn Ihr Menschen kennt, die dort arbeiten, gebt ihnen gerne einen Fingerzeig!
In Bardenitz in Brandenburg (Germany) people sport these symbols on their mailboxes. At carnival, the children dress up and go from house to house. They leave these pictogram-shaped stickers on the letterbox wherever they are let in and invited for juice and cake. This relatively new tradition is called »zempern« #immaterialculturalheritage #intangibleculturalheritage #signsoflife
»My London Pictogram competition« invites you to design your own pictogram representing an aspect of London that is important to you. Winning designs will be professionally refined by graphic designers from Nippon Design Center and featured in «Pictograms: Iconic Japanese Designs«, a major exhibition at Japan House London, opening on 30 July 2025. https://www.japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/pictograms-iconic-japanese-designs/#:~:text=Pictograms%20are%20everywhere.,the%20art%20of%20visual%20communication.