Title: Climoji
Artist(s): Viniyata Pany, Marina Zurkow and Manuja Waldia
Source: Neural Magazine
Sense(s): visual, tactile/haptic (texting)
Issue(s): communicating climate change
While not visibilising environmental data, this conceptual project, which designs a set of emoji pertinent to the issue of climate change, is an example of visibilising the entirety of the climate issue. Furthermore, if actualised through acceptance by the Unicode Consortium, which decides on new emoji 1, it potentially empowers publics affected by climate change in a vernacular way, and allows those affected by, for example, extreme weather events, to communicate these issues. For that reason, it is an important work to include.
The work ‘is meant to put the climate change discourse at the centre of our personal and public communication, infiltrating one of the most used media’. 2 The emoji have been released as a poster, and as a sticker pack.