Since my draft wasn’t long enough to get a good sense of where it is going to head, the peer feedback I got surrounded the questions of whether there is an open-ended question and how this writing links to my “Triangulate 1“. By this point the writing wasn’t exploring image-based communication yet and listed general historic events that happened and started to hint at the topic of “finding a common ground“ in communication.
Tutor feedback involved that the enquiry is implicit in the form of writing I chose and the way historical and theoretical evidence was woven into the writing was seen as good. To address the unknown directly forced me to write in an accessible way. Maybe the structure of the writing could reflect one of my references more, which is Hans Freudenthal and the „universal language“, called Lincos (lingua cosmica) he created to send messages to a higher intelligence. The logograms are arranged in the message to explain mathematics and physics. This allows a higher intelligence to decipher the logograms and their meaning if they know mathematics and physics. The key of deciphering is inherent in the message. I was struggling to incorporate this structure within the writing and decided to use the writing as a tool to explore the different directions I am interested in.
Also, I got feedback on the way the writing could be presented. I haven’t thought about this yet but might have and idea. I was told that it would already help to have some images included that show the references and outline the writing.
Dumas, S.: The 1999 and 2003 Messages explained, https://www.plover.com/misc/Dumas- Dutil/messages.pdf, last accessed 20.Nov.2021