VIEWS project

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Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) is a Cambridge Uni project funded by UKRI, and host of the Endangered Writing Network. For more information please visit our websites: https://linktr.ee/viewsproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share

Wooden letters coloured red and yellow
Photo from programme reading "13th May. Pippa Steele (Cambridge), Semata and the epistemological position of early Greek alphabetic writing"
Composite image with the WAVE 2 logo at the bottom, and at the top Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back, with the words "WAVE 2 is over, but there is another... WAVE 3 coming in 2027!"
Conference programme
Palmleaf Linear B tablet in purple Play-doh, reading pi-pa MUL 1 ko-wo 1
Image of the WEWD programme (text version available online).
Children's book, The Trojan Horse
Page of book by Xu Bing with toddler playing with alphabet letters in the background
Red patterned advent calendar with a wooden bunny and copy of Mr Jelly and the Pirates on top
Small wooden elf, tree and mummy/baby polar bear figures
Red haired toddler making an abecedarium out of rainbow coloured magnet letters on a white board next to his bookshelf.
Banner for our autumn seminars 2025 showing the VIEWS logo, plus small pictures depicting an Anatolian relief scene, Linear B tablet, Greek statuette of a boy writing on a folding tablet and a Japanese warrior.
Leather cushion cover with concentric circles bearing lines of geometric patterns and a fringe around the outside.
Toddler with red hair, a blue top and pink trousers kneeling over colourful alphabet letters arranged in boustrophedon, on a blue picnic blanket with colourful check.
In bottom left, the IG 15.1 Cyprus volume, a large dark blue book with gold lettering on the cover. In top right, my laptop in the background showing part of a spreadsheet recording Cypriot inscriptions.
Wall with dark wooden slats at the edge of a playground, covered in graffiti by numerous hands in white, yellow and red spray paint.
Statuette of Thoth with an ibis coming out of his face.
Pale coloured writing board with black outline Egyptian hieroglyphs written in a naive-looking style.
Argument meme with a woman shouting at the cat at the table. The woman is shouting "Ideogram!" and the cat is shouting "Logogram!"
Pippa's family Pride photo with her partner and son wearing various rainbow coloured things and a rainbow umbrella
Two lightly browned Alphabites, O and E, stuck together like a perfect ligature.
My son Ben at 4 months old in a blue sleepsuit, lying on his tummy on his playmat with his foldout space book.
A picture of the book Chinese Characters Across Asia by Zev Handel.
Pink triangles on a beige backgrounds, the left pointing up and the right down, joined by horizontal lines at top and bottom.
Image from Suppressed Histories Archives. Detail from an Aztec codex showing a woman kneeling down writing on a flattened out page. The Spanish caption reads 'la pintora".
Screencap of a headline saying "AI reveals what ancient languages, including Greek, sounded like" - from the Greek Reporter.