Week 5: Letter reference

After my tutorial with Nat on Tuesday, I realized that I really needed to start thinking what I wanted to do with the typography I started to create, wether I was going to still use it or not, but also decide in which context was it going to sit? What do I wanted to do with language and type? What was the purpose of my project?

When I gave it a thought in my head, and went back through my research, I clearly saw that what felt the most important to me was to establish a dialog, a conversation between homeless people and the rest of society. I wanted people to go and talk to homeless people, socialize with them. Obviously, said like that, it seem something almost utopian, hard to put in place, but I started to think of what other situations involved people being lonely or even excluded, and how was that solved, how did they got to communicate with others?

Then, an initiative that took place In Spain during the Coronavirus outbreak came to my mind, where nurses and doctors, seeing how lonely Covid pacients were in hospitals, where they couldn't get visits from their close ones, decided to ask people to write letters for those patients that were staying in hospitals , so that they could feel accompanied, they could be entertained for a little while and feel people close to the, even if it was with words. People loved the initiative and thousands of letters were sent to the hospitals, from people who had no idea who they were writing to, who didn't know who was going to read their letters. This is a proof that people would actually be willing to write letters to people they don't know, and that could be a great way to start a dialog.