Queering our keyboard workshop - Revision history

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			== how to continue ==
			-> Flask app to exchange the poem pad for an html form on the workshop website! [[Flask]]

	== process ==		== process ==

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	https://vvvvvvaria.org/curriculum/In-the-Beginning-...-Was-the-Commandline/		https://vvvvvvaria.org/curriculum/In-the-Beginning-...-Was-the-Commandline/

			Arabic Script base glyphs and character representation -> glyphs app forum

			https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/arabic-script-base-glyphs-and-character-representation/25213/3

			Ama foundry Falak typeface project

			https://www.amafoundry.com/stories/the-falak-aceotl-project-part-1

			Hilal's bachelor's thesis

			https://kabk.github.io/go-theses-23-hilal-mutluel/

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	https://boutique.arte.tv/detail/l_odyssee_de_l_ecriture?source=PLURIMEDIA		https://boutique.arte.tv/detail/l_odyssee_de_l_ecriture?source=PLURIMEDIA

			ByeByeBinary QUNI tutorials

			https://typotheque.genderfluid.space/

	What is a Queer Typography		What is a Queer Typography

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	https://snelting.domainepublic.net/wp-content/uploads/QueeringDamage.pdf		https://snelting.domainepublic.net/wp-content/uploads/QueeringDamage.pdf

			Acting Ethically in an Imperfect world

			http://raw.writings.hongminhee.org/2026/02/acting-materialistically-in-an-imperfect-world/

	Varia command line workshop		Varia command line workshop

	https://vvvvvvaria.org/curriculum/In-the-Beginning-...-Was-the-Commandline/		https://vvvvvvaria.org/curriculum/In-the-Beginning-...-Was-the-Commandline/

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIFE7h3m40U
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 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t20kjjo8favlu6azg9m9q/WIQT1.pdf?rlkey=i3m46wjbvyu5bvojmg6j2jmmb&e=1&dl=0

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	=== sources ===		=== sources ===
			unicode

			https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MijmeoH9LT4

			https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCoed5Oo_J4

			https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIFE7h3m40U

			SIL

			https://www.instagram.com/p/C8M7MR5RNgS/

			keyboard

			https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAVV4kAYlI8

			type / history of writing

			https://boutique.arte.tv/detail/l_odyssee_de_l_ecriture?source=PLURIMEDIA

			What is a Queer Typography

			https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t20kjjo8favlu6azg9m9q/WIQT1.pdf?rlkey=i3m46wjbvyu5bvojmg6j2jmmb&e=1&dl=0

Robin at 11:51, 2 April 2026

2026-04-02T11:51:09Z

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	I was super happy people would interrupt my talk to add their own experiences as well, and I would love to somehow be more intentional about that. Because for now, I let people talk and then went back to my story because I felt we were already behind. But they were also the most important parts because there everyone made the story their own. So maybe there could be more focus on this instead of making the font.		I was super happy people would interrupt my talk to add their own experiences as well, and I would love to somehow be more intentional about that. Because for now, I let people talk and then went back to my story because I felt we were already behind. But they were also the most important parts because there everyone made the story their own. So maybe there could be more focus on this instead of making the font.

	But in the end it was clear that this was a workshop for people who are already interested in type / coding / language, and have some per-knowledge of it. The terminologies were not the problem, but to stay engaged with the topic and to connect the dots between certain concepts did require this a little bit. And, it was also very clear that we still had too little time to do everything. It is just too much information to fit in 3 hours, even if it's made more accessible. It might be more of a full-day workshop, or one that's split in two parts.		But in the end it was clear that this was a workshop for people who are already interested in type / coding / language, and have some per-knowledge of it. The terminologies were not the problem, but to stay engaged with the topic and to connect the dots between certain concepts did require this a little bit. And, it was also very clear that we still had too little time to do everything. It is just too much information to fit in 3 hours, even if it's made more accessible. It might be more of a full-day workshop, or one that's split in two parts. [[File:Queeringourkeyboard workshop announcement.png\|thumb\|212x212px\|the workshop announcement I sent out :)\|left]]









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	* the 3 episode on the ARTE of the invention of the alphabet are MEGA WORTH WATCHING, it goes from the first writing, to the printing press and guttenberg and how in many other culture they were other tihngs, and then it goes to typing today with technology, it's in fucking french lol but im sure we can find a subtitled version https://boutique.arte.tv/detail/l_odyssee_de_l_ecriture?source=PLURIMEDIA		* the 3 episode on the ARTE of the invention of the alphabet are MEGA WORTH WATCHING, it goes from the first writing, to the printing press and guttenberg and how in many other culture they were other tihngs, and then it goes to typing today with technology, it's in fucking french lol but im sure we can find a subtitled version https://boutique.arte.tv/detail/l_odyssee_de_l_ecriture?source=PLURIMEDIA
	* totally other references that you might be interested in but it's the text of Paul Soulelis that's firstly titled "what is a queer typography" and then reads "there is no queer typography only acts of queer writing and reading" https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t20kjjo8favlu6azg9m9q/WIQT1.pdf?rlkey=i3m46wjbvyu5bvojmg6j2jmmb&e=1&dl=0		* totally other references that you might be interested in but it's the text of Paul Soulelis that's firstly titled "what is a queer typography" and then reads "there is no queer typography only acts of queer writing and reading" https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t20kjjo8favlu6azg9m9q/WIQT1.pdf?rlkey=i3m46wjbvyu5bvojmg6j2jmmb&e=1&dl=0
	~~[[File:Queeringourkeyboard workshop announcement.png\|thumb\|355x355px\|the workshop announcement I sent out :)]]~~
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Robin: /* lil reflection */

2026-04-01T13:52:07Z

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	Overall, it could make the stamp exercise more meaningful to have a good prompt that connects all the 'letters'. It's a fine balance between still finding meaning in the shape, but staying away from making the exercise about making a new system of meaning. But it could help to have a more personal takeaway from the workshop and to make the poem a more meaningful conclusion of the day.		Overall, it could make the stamp exercise more meaningful to have a good prompt that connects all the 'letters'. It's a fine balance between still finding meaning in the shape, but staying away from making the exercise about making a new system of meaning. But it could help to have a more personal takeaway from the workshop and to make the poem a more meaningful conclusion of the day.

			For the Unicode part, I could find a way to really visualize the library using the erasers. To show why its different form the binary codes. ( and it is definitely fine to stick with this and not go into utf-8 vs. 16 and ASCII and stuff. But it could also help here to do a bit more research myself, to be able to explain better how that information moves, where they live as files and where not, and which are exchanged over the internet, and when and how.

	On a technical level, the set-up with the website as presentation on a bigger screen worked super well. And the diagram helped to connect the presentation to the exercise. I would have loved to make the website a more interactive part of the workshop. Because we ran out of time, we didn't manage to go through the fontforge steps, but I also realized it would not really have worked if we tried. There was an issue with downloading fontforge on Mac. The stamps everyone made were too complex to retrace in vectors quickly, so we decided to image trace a few just to show the idea. But if we would have done it, it would have taken a very long time to do. I thought I would let everyone replace a few letters each in a separate fontfile, and I would merge the files into one at the end. But that would have been really complicated to organize. I either have to make that step way simpler and do it myself on one computer, or I somehow leave it out even.		On a technical level, the set-up with the website as presentation on a bigger screen worked super well. And the diagram helped to connect the presentation to the exercise. I would have loved to make the website a more interactive part of the workshop. Because we ran out of time, we didn't manage to go through the fontforge steps, but I also realized it would not really have worked if we tried. There was an issue with downloading fontforge on Mac. The stamps everyone made were too complex to retrace in vectors quickly, so we decided to image trace a few just to show the idea. But if we would have done it, it would have taken a very long time to do. I thought I would let everyone replace a few letters each in a separate fontfile, and I would merge the files into one at the end. But that would have been really complicated to organize. I either have to make that step way simpler and do it myself on one computer, or I somehow leave it out even.

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 [[File:Qok-stamps-09.jpg|thumb|unicode private use area + fontfile, BBB hack]]
 [[File:Qok-stamps-08.jpg|center|thumb|unicode latin vs. unicode private use area]]
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Robin: /* letter stamps */

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 And then, I prepared some eraser stamps to tell the story with.
-So during the talk, I related back to those four different categories: mark, system, code, standard. To be able to say, 'we're now here'.[[File:Qok-stamps-01.jpg|left|thumb|letter stamps used to explain character encoding process|275x275px]]
+So during the talk, I related back to those four different categories: mark, system, code, standard. To be able to say, 'we're now here'. I started by introducing the letterpress as systematized way of reproducing written language. Showing that it was build around the logic of Latin as separate 'blocks', with every block representing one letter. And then used Arabic as an example of why those 'blocks' don't make sense for using non-latin scripts. And that system forces that other script to 'act like' its latin (imitate it), so to work in it's logic in order to be representable in the first place.
 [[File:Qok-stamps-04.jpg|thumb|latin vs. arabic encoding]]