Emerji

Emoji for climate change

Date
2017 - ongoing

Team
Sara Dean
Beth Ferguson

Emerji is a set of emoji for climate change and emergency response. This project is directly informed by insights gained in Jakarta and with the global response community. Language barriers are a infrastructural hindrance to effective use of social media for emergency response. This project designs the missing link between the ubiquity of mobile phones and social media for communication after disaster events and language barriers to effective use of these tools in global response efforts.

While working to design and implement these emoji, we have worked to develop the images through many formats, and to give access to the idea of climate change emoji. We have made physical stickers, a sticker app, interactive prompts, and shown them in exhibition contexts.

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Husselmann, Carla.“Free Speech,” Khuluma Magazine 2019

Halton, Mary. “Could an emoji save your life?,” BBC News 2018

Bonfranceschi, Anna Lisa. “Di quali altre emoji avremmo bisogno?” (“What other emoji do we need?”) Wired Italy. 2018

Cosimi, Simone. “Un’emoji può salvarti la vita? La battaglia per quella sul terremoto,” (“Can an emoji save your life? The battle for the one on the earthquake”) la Repubblica. 2018

Cheney, Catherine. “What could emojis bring to disaster response?” Devex. 2017. https://www.devex.com/news/what-could-emojis-bring-to-disaster-response-89565

“What could emojis bring to disaster response?,“ SEARCA Knowledge Center on Climate Change (KC3). Reprint from Devex. 2017. https://climatechange.searca.org/news/harvested/indonesia/what-could-emojis-bring-to-disaster-response

Landes, Nora. “Why Emoji Matters,” Artsy. 2016

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