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Writing and Pseudo-Scripts - NEW webinar

2026-05-18
Architectural contexts and script-image phenomena

Webinar dates: 18 and 19 September, 2026
Abstract (seminar) until the end of June 2026.
Full paper (publishing) until the end of September 2026.

Submissions should be made through the EGI journal publishing platform.
Publication of the Issue: December 2026.

The 1st Seminar on Writing and Pseudo-Scripts: Architectural contexts and script-image phenomena brings together two distinct research tracks from the Epigraphy, Graffiti, Iconography (EGI) journal to explore the frontiers of graphic expression in human culture. By bridging the study of "Pseudo-Scripts" and "Writing, Place-Making, and Architecture" this seminar investigates how graphic signs mutate between legible communication, pure visual phenomena, and structural spatial anchors.

All updates and info:
https://journals.wisethorough.com/index.php/EGI/WPS

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Current Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Graffiti, heritage and context: the act and significance of writing
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Inspired by the panel “Graffiti, heritage and context: the act and significance of writing” presented at the Urban Creativity Conference, this issue brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on graffiti as a situated practice of mark-making across time, cultures, and material contexts. Moving beyond graffiti as mere inscription or visual artifact, the contributions explore writing as an embodied, relational, and meaning-producing act—one that negotiates memory, identity, power, and presence in public and sacred spaces.

Spanning case studies from ancient sanctuaries and rock art sites to modern urban walls and politically charged environments, the issue examines how acts of writing mediate between the personal and the collective, the ephemeral and the permanent, the illicit and the institutional. Through lenses such as epigraphy, semiotics, phenomenology, heritage studies, and contemporary graffiti practice, the articles collectively foreground writing as an action that shapes space, asserts belonging, and inscribes continuity across generations.

Together, these contributions position graffiti not as marginal or ancillary, but as a fundamental cultural practice through which societies articulate meaning, negotiate authority, and leave traces of lived experience in the material world.

Published: 2025-12-18

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