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CUMULUS
LISBON 2005 programme
Workshop LisbonDIAGONALLIES City Bytes - The Urban Script Chairs: Erik Adigard ; Max Bruinsma ; Rob Schröder
Each city, and especially age-old towns like Lisbon, has its own
characteristic 'script'. Its streets and alleys are like the lines of a hand,
like a fingerprint. And at the same time these lines are the lines along
which the city is 'written'. Each quarter, each neighborhood has its own
handwriting, its own visual style in which it is expressed and expresses
itself. Bairo Alto has a different script than Baixa. From old calligraphy to
today's graffiti, from azuleija's to sprayed tags, small images and
words characterize each neighborhood, each block, each street. That's what we'll do: make new tags for the city, based on the old ones, on the existing visual signs we have found. Whether as a means of identifying parts of the city on street signage, or as identification along a locality's confines, or as a markers on street corners or on houses, or just as a mysterious script for passers-by to decipherŠ What we are going to see is if we can find an argued visual language based on, not merely abstract theories of information design, but on our own living experience of a city's expressions.
PROGRAMME 23 May - Palácio Pombal 10h00 - 12h30: Presentation 24 May - Palácio Pombal 16h00 - 18h00: Progress Meeting 25 May - Palácio Pombal 16h00 - 18h00: Progress Meeting 27 May – Lisboa Welcome Centre 16h15 - 18h00: Final results presentation
Links: http://www.flickr.com/photos/search/tags:graffiti,lisboa/tagmode:all/
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