12 Aleksandra Kot This workshop explores the intersection of typography and sound as a lens on belonging and longing. In a world shaped by migration, fragmentation, and hyper-connectivity, voices and signs constantly cross borders. Typography is not only visual form, but carries echoes of speech, rhythms of communities, and traces of displacement. Sound embodies both presence and absence: a familiar accent, the hum of a city, or the silence of exclusion. Together, they become tools for asking not only where we belong, but also what we long for. Participants will take part in soundwalks to investigate how acoustic environments embody familiarity and estrangement. Instead of treating recordings as data, they will translate them into typographic notations, visual scores that transform abstract sounds into letters, rhythms, or gaps. Each participant will create a sonic–typographic alphabet, a system of signs that captures listening as embodied experience and reflects personal or collective notions of being “at home.” These experimental scripts will also act as communicative tools, exposing systems of inclusion and exclusion while speculating on alternative languages of belonging. The workshop emphasizes problem-finding rather than solution-making, drawing on critical design and radical pedagogy. Students will examine whose voices are heard, whose scripts are legible, and how typographic and sonic systems can be reimagined as more open and relational. Activities will combine collective practices with individual reflection. The outcome will be a collective printed publication: a polyphonic record of soundwalks, alphabets, and speculative scores of belonging. These works are not functional solutions but open-ended explorations, resonances that expand our capacity to listen, to care, and to imagine more inclusive futures. Here, longing becomes a generative force, and belonging is understood as an ongoing process, a becoming.
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