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Speaker: Dr Irmi Wachendorff (University of Reading)
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This research seminar is free & open to all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join us in person in the University of Reading\u2019s Department of Typography, Room T4.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To join via MS Teams, please register\u00a0here<\/a>.
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Dr Irmi Wachendorff\u2019s presentation will analyse a dataset of 5500 tagged and geo-referenced stickers in public space from the\u00a0Signs of the Metropolis<\/em>\u00a0research project (Ziegler et al. 2022) which explored visual multilingualism in the Ruhr area in Germany. She will focus on typographic and semiotic visual analysis, discuss stickers in comparison to other signs in urban space, and examine the publicised themes.<\/p>\n

Stickers are one of the smallest and yet \u2013 on looking closer \u2013 one of the most visually expressive and liberated forms of signs in urban space (Wachendorff 2021). Clustered on dedicated canvases such as lampposts, road signs and electricity boxes, they are placed by various stakeholders with different goals: supporters of political parties, protest movements, members of football clubs, music fans, sticker artists, and commercial actors. Stickering is an act of democratisation and place-making in which citizens as authors negotiate their social and cultural positions through visual signs in the urban environment (Vasileva 2021).<\/p>\n

Dr Wachendorff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. She is a graphic designer and design historian with specialisations in typography and sociolinguistics. Her PhD focussed on \u2018Typographic Landscapes \u2013 Letters in Cities as Social Artefacts\u2019 at the University of Duisburg-Essen and was funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. Irmi is passionate about design education, the practice, theory and history of graphic communication, typography and visual culture, lettering in urban space, the relationship of typography and language, and the bridge between graphic design and sociolinguistic disciplines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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