How can constructed language be used to increase inclusiveness in our society?

• Initial - break down invisible borders in our societies.
• I’ve chosen to look at Esperanto in particular, which is a stateless language
• At the moment the goal of my project is to increase the amount of people who speak Esperanto
• I read a lot about the language, and one of the claimed issues that I found, was an opinion that Esperanto will never succeed at becoming a universal language because it doesn’t have a culture
• I don’t necessarily agree with that, but I thought that in order to expand and manifest the culture, I could develop a global culture building tool
• At the moment I’m planning on making a visual identity for Esperanto, which will be informed by digital making, done by users
• They will be able to write small texts or poems, and they will be able to make visuals
• I’ve started testing the visual making brushes → wanted to be organic and human

Worries

• I’m not sure if the making needs to be even more conceptual
  • I’ve thought about merging works from different users, to symbolise how Esperanto is kind of a hybridization between lots of cultures

• Summary → research question

How can constructed language be used to increase inclusiveness in our society?

• Focusing on Esperanto, which is a stateless language originally meant to gather humankind