Emoji Tour

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During 2 weeks Hackers & Designers relocated in China to give a hands-on introduction into the world of coding to Art and Design students in Chang Sha and Beijing. Applying concepts of programming to design and design methods the students learned about simple software constructions and how to alter code with simple means. Using Emoji as material, and common ground we bridged misunderstandings and misconceptions created through language differences in ‘English – Chinese’ and/or ‘Design – Programming’. With Emoji Babble we offered fun access to coding environments and invite the students to experience and interact with the code and eventually design with code.

The terminal workshop started with everyone customising the design of their terminal. The students ended up making small questionnaires about the topic Emoji, which was used as a way to generate content for a zine. Part of the workshop was also an observation exercise where students had to go outside and take pictures of terminal commands in “real life”. The next step was to conceptualise the commands and translate them into a 3D emoji.

Learning about the Terminal with Emoji: https://wiki.hackersanddesigners.nl/mediawiki/index.php/Emojiterm Learning coding with Emojicode: https://wiki.hackersanddesigners.nl/mediawiki/index.php/Emojicode

Our collaborators were Minhong Yu (translation and coordination) and Martijn van Boven (who joined the tutor team in Beijing)