Project

A short introduction into our project with:

What is the assignment?

The projects is called the poetics and dynamics of text and is inspired by Ottoman calligraphy. It is the supersvisors goal to inspire us with calligraphy and with that give a starting point to the project. We have to create an interactive project inspired by calligraphy. Later on the summerschool the subject calligraphy drifted away and we were focussing on the interaction.

What are the deliverables?

In the end of the summerschool we have to give a presentation about our project. For this presentation we also need to create:

The following deliverables would be nice but are optional to produce:

What is our goal?

The goal of the University of Babel is to let students communicate in a better way by teaching them about other cultures.

In the current world not all people learn about other cultures. They grow up in their own culture, in their own country and hardly get in touch with other cultures. Because people immigrate we can see a little bit of the other culture, we think. But this way of learning is not good because it lacks the environment.

The goal of the University of Babel is about starting a conversation between cultures and students and their point of view on the world. We let students send messages to other universities to teach others about their way of living. We weave the environment back in via the teachers on the university so the messages actually have a meaning and can get understood.

In this way students will learn the multiple layers of a culture instead of only the outside of it. This knowledge is important to understand another persons point of view. With this knowledge students will be able to communicate better with people from other cultures. Thus we create an environment at the universities which supports students in reaching their goals. One of those goals might be solving the problems of the world. This is possible because people can understand each other. This is what we call love, peace and happiness, which is what we hope this will lead to.

This way we also release the stress between the different countries and cultures, native people and the immigrants inside a country get to know each other. We also build bridges between the universities and let the students of the different countries work together on projects and get to know more people.

For whom is it meant?

The University of Babel aims at setting up a network for communication, create material for universities and support the universities in setting up the project.

The main users will actually be students; they will be using the medium to communicate with others. These are people who want to be free in what they explore, what they learn. They are young and are exploring how to communicate with other people of their age.

Another group we will support are the teachers. They have knowledge about their profession and can teach that to students. The teachers need to know or to research the background -the environment- about the messages that go around in the university. We support these teachers in the same way we help the students. We let them communicate with other people of their age and interest; the teachers from other universities. Because they also learn about other cultures and get to see other point of views they can learn how to help their students in a better way.