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MAPPING IDENTITY

Ways of designing national narratives

Language

Identity is numb without a language. Just like individuals need a means of communication to be heard, nations rely on language and text as the foundation of their existence. Spoken, written, or visual, this section shows different ways in which language conveys identity.

Text

Language and text are inseparable; text conveys the heritage of the visual culture and, at the same time, maps the phonetics and structure of the language. Explore the references one can turn to in search of Ukrainian letterforms.

Story

"If you face the South, Moscow will be far behind," wrote Yuri Leiderman in 1983. This perspective shift is still needed in the stories about Ukrainian identity. Here are listed the cases that facilitate this decolonial process.

Map

Maps combine the elements of visual language and text to tell a story of identity, sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly, in a dynamic or a static form, through a personal or communal perspective.