Programme Symbol’26

9:00 Welcome

9:10 Günther Sander: KEYNOTE

9:40 María del Mar Navarro: Otto Neurath’s Visual Theory of Well Being: Felicitology and the International Picture Language

10:10 Enrico Bravi: International Graphic Code: Julius Klinger and the Promise of Visual Universality

10:20 Eliyahu Elad Yana: The Mosaic of Equality – Neurath's Visual Solution to Vienna's Babel

10:30 Sue Perks: How different were Otto Neurath’s and Henry Dreyfuss’s dreams of an “International Picture language?”

11:20 Gabi Schaffzin: Face-based pain scales are tools for evaluating patients’ self-reported physical pain

11:50 Haya Sheffer: The legacy of the Vienna Circle’s positivist philosophy as articulated by Otto Neurath and materialised through his pioneering ISOTYPE system 

12:20 Geanina Turcanu: How is the data in sustainability app interfaces visualised to power behavioral impact? Case Study: Too Good to Go (food saving app)

12:30 Karel van der Waarde & Mandar Rane & Juli Gudehus: The ibuproject – translating medicine information from text to visual signs

13:50 Pia Pedersen: The Human Body in Pictograms

14:20 José Allard: Reflecting on Neurath’s legacy through the results of a one-week academic workshop

14:50 Sibylle Schlaich: Neutral is not neutral

15:00 Hisayasu Ihara & Mao Kudo: Two Problems in Representing Genders in Pictograms After Isotype

15:20 Rodrigo Ramirez: Beyond Universalism: Exploring Interpretations of Icons during and after COVID Crisis

15:50 Mike Zender: How access and inclusion relate to current icon customization and standardization

16:20 Holger Ziemann: The Goal of “Adaptive Semiotics” is to explore the possibilities of adapting systems to the users graphical literacy.

17:00 Yoav Lorch: Zlango: a unique effort to build the language and the technical StructureItem description

17:15 GK VanPatter: Making Sense of Innovation: Roots of inclusion: Neurath meets Guilford

17:30 Nigel Holmes: The artist who brought humanity to Isotype

17:40 End of conference