Mother Tongue is an innovative online exhibition that seeks to capture the power of language - verbal and visual, formal and informal. As a fundamental form of expression.
A language can be visual - made up of complex ideas of truth deeply rooted in symbols, custom and imagery. Intended to stimulate creative dialogue, Mother Tongue offers designers a forum to respond to the position that indigenous language iconography, process and design knowledge can and should play an integral role in contemporary design.
This cross-cultural platform will honour languages at risk and encourage collaborative projects that deepen our understanding of people's culture in our visual world of this 21 century.
Mother Tongue is an open, multi-disciplinary, online exhibition. It is open to designers of all disciplines, students of design, poets and writers.
Deadline for submissions is December 1, 2010.
My Entry:
I have decided to enter. My piece will be about young people in this country using "text speech" all the time and how does this affect their spelling, grammar and ability to string a sentence together. Also I want to see if I can incorporate how this would affect the next generation of children's language. If the child's parents cant use language appropriately, how can the child learn from them?
I will post an update in a few days.
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