{"id":36,"date":"2014-01-02T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T10:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2014\/01\/logographic-script-for-europe.html"},"modified":"2015-10-13T23:56:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T21:56:31","slug":"logographic-script-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2014\/01\/logographic-script-for-europe.html","title":{"rendered":"A Logographic Script for Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like Europe, China has many languages \u200b\u200band cultures. In contrast to Europe, everyone in China communicate with each other through a common script: Hanzi. A text drawn up in Chinese characters for every literate Chinese to understand, even if they don\u2019t share a common language. Europe has tried to forge unity through a common currency, the market, regulation and parliament. These elements have so far not delivered a broad common identity. Europe is separated by language.<\/p>\n

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Babel is a project initiated by Monnik<\/em> and Studio Rooiejas<\/em> in which they design and develop\u00a0a logographic script for Europe. With a logographic writing we could read (and write) each other\u2019s newspapers even if we can not understand each other. A design solution through which one could instantly create a truly European public space. In a logographic writing each word or concept is represented by\u00a0a separate symbol, called a logogram. Because these characters have a symbolic and not a phonetic value they can be used universally, even by people who do not speak each other\u2019s languages.<\/p>\n

A logographic language as a solution to Europe\u2019s \u201cconfusion of tongues\u201d sounds far-fetched and obvious at the same time. It would be practical if it existed, completely impractical to implement, and most of all insightful and evocative food for thought.<\/p>\n

See and read more at Monnik<\/a> and Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like Europe, China has many languages \u200b\u200band cultures. In contrast to Europe, everyone in China communicate with each other through a common script: Hanzi. A text drawn up in Chinese characters for every literate Chinese to understand, even if they don\u2019t share a common language. Europe has tried to forge unity through a common currency, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,32,33,315,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}