Curators: Prof Johan Vandebosch, Prof Ann Bessemans (PXL-MAD), Prof Katerina Antonaki (TEI of Athens), 

Prof Ewa Satalecka (PJATK).

The objective of this course is to provide a platform for communication to different audiences and highlight how design influences a social campaign and visual communication on a national level. The artworks done by the participants became a part of international exhibition (Belgium, Greece, Poland, UK). The guests had a chance to take brochures with the works published as well as postcards. The future step is the development of a web-based platform to continue the communication.

The participants are expected to be confronted in a formal way with a familiar script (Latin) and will enrich it with the visual language of an unfamiliar non-latin script. Starting from stencils composition posters will be designed whereby letter characteristic communicates the immigration. 

My font of choice was a grotesk sans serif font that is often present in activism / propaganda posters. The unfamiliar script is Georgian. As it has elements of letterforms that remind Latin script speakers of some intricate ascenders and descenders, which in fact are not in Georgian script (the reason is the alignment to an x-axis). Those parts and oblique forms were attached to the Latin script that created a fusion, mutually intelligible to both Latin and Georgian speakers. Thus, as the experiment shows, in the melting pot of cultures and languages, there is a demand for dialogue to gain understanding.

The letters forming a word 'migration' were cut out as stencils and drawn on the paper with ink and sponges. The composition is abstract by intention to depict the crowdedness not only of letters but of messages, opinions, beliefs derived from diverse cultures.