Thursday 19 Sept 2024
Session 1 - Icons for Society – Past, Present and Future
Chair: Jason Forrest
Prof Scott E Fahlman: Happy 42nd birthday to the Smiley emoticon!
Jason Forrest: Isotype and graphic language
Dr Wibo Bakker: Almanac to Smartphone: half a millennium of symbol systems facilitating information access
15-minute panel discussion
Dr María del Mar Navarro: Expanding Horizons: The Intersection of the ‘Atlas of Society and Economy’ and ‘Seis Años de Gobierno al Servicio de México’
Dr Sue Perks: Thoughts on universal language in Henry Dreyfuss’s Symbol Sourcebook
Dr Emily M Orr: Our Search for Symbols at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Dr Olivier Morin: On the Puzzle of Ideography
15-minute panel discussion
Session 2 - Icons in Healthcare
Chair: Dr Karel van der Waarde
Dr Karel van der Waarde: Icons and information about medicines
Shuhan He, co-authors - Deborah Lai, Dr Kendrick Davis: Emoji for the medical community
Prof Mandar Rane: Exploring the role of healthcare pictograms in the context of people living with ALS
15-minute panel discussion
Sibylle Schlaich: Accessibility, identity and innovation in wayfinding
Paul Mijksenaar: Too many symbols? Limitations, misunderstandings and challenges
15-minute panel discussion
Friday 20 Sept 2024
Session 1 - Icons for Society Now
Chair: Rodrigo Ramirez
Prof Scott E Fahlman: The Birth, Evolution and Spread of the Emoticon
Prof Daniel Utz: Beyond Unicode – Emoji and other signs
15-minute panel discussion
Marina Zurkow: Climate communication: how to fight the doom we ignore
Jennifer 8. Lee: Representation on the Small Screen (vs Big Screen)
Rodrigo Ramirez: Symbols + Narratives for Activating Emergencies
15-minute panel discussion
Session 2 - The Future of Communication Through Icons
Chair: Dr Wibo Bakker
Xu Bing: Thinking and Creating Way Outside the Box: Xu Bing, China’s Most Contemporary Artist
Edgar Walthert, Maxim Weirich: Society of Signs – An Assembly of Visual Language
Juli Gudehus: Icon Spell – boosting a global visual language by collaborative intelligence
15-minute panel discussion
Loïc Marleix: The rediscovery of the Lovers Communication Language
Cesco Reale, Aiman Amine, co authors Laura Meloni and Phimolporn Hitmeangsong: IKON, language of icons: linguistic, semiotic and graphic aspects
Dr Haytham Nawar: Generative Pictographic Language
Plenary session