Across Time & Space 23


My thesis explores how reliable pictograms are as a “universal” language across different cultural contexts. Through speculative and real cases — from messages sent into space to nuclear-waste marking. It questions the idea of a single, unambiguous visual translation.

References: Pioneer plaque, Arecibo message, Voyager Golden Record и Nuclear semiotics.
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