VIEWS Project 🌈

The VIEWS project is based at Cambridge and run by PI Dr Pippa Steele (she/her). We are conducting new research on visual aspects of writing systems in the pre-modern world and examining relationships between writing and visual culture. Visit our website: viewsproject.wordpress.com

A 9th century poem by Rabanum Maurus. The grid is a complete poem, while the cross and body of the praying Rabanum contain stand-alone phrases. The green text on Rabanum's body reads (in Latin): 'Christ, o pious and merciful in your judgment, keep me, Rabanus, I pray, safe'.

Join us in Cambridge on Saturday for a very special workshop - follow the link to book!

@theo_nash I hope it was fun and/or productive 🙂

@theo_nash You're in Oxford!

🎵✏️ Jamigraphy: Writing as rhythm, movement, and embodiment 21 March 10am-1pm, CRASSH, CB3 9DP crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49163/ Explore rhythms of writing to music in this participatory workshop led by artist Alice Mazzilli in collab with Pippa Steele of the @crewsproject

Adam Yeo's seminar is now online if you missed it and would like to catch up. youtu.be/NSMC-JFrcy8?si…

Tomorrow, Friday 6th March, 4.30pm, hybrid seminar Adam Yeo, Writing as Image: A Comparative Visual Study of Bété and Chinese Scripts Room 1.11 Cambridge Faculty of Classics, or watch online: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

WAVE 2: Writing As Visual Engagement Conference: 26th-29th March (hybrid) and 11th April (online). Join us for 30+ presentations on writing from around the world, historical and modern! Programme and Zoom registration via the link. viewsproject.wordpress.com/writing-as-vis…

🎵✏️ Jamigraphy: Writing as rhythm, movement, and embodiment 21 March 10am-1pm, CRASSH, CB3 9DP crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49163/ Explore rhythms of writing to music in this participatory workshop led by artist Alice Mazzilli in collab with Pippa Steele of the @crewsproject

Today, Friday 27/2 16.30 GMT: Anna Bertelli "Looking at the Inscribed Temple: Reconstructing Viewer Experience at the Sanctuary of Apollo Pythios in Gortyn, Crete" A fascinating inscribed space! Zoom reg: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

I am honoured to be one of the speakers at the Linguists Collective Conference tomorrow (Saturday 21st February), celebrating International Mother Language Day. I am speaking in the evening slot, but there is a great line-up all day, programme here: conference.linguistscollective.info

Happy International Lego Classics Day everyone! My offering this year is a Duplo version of a recent research article about writing on Mount Hymettos, Athens, home to some very important inscriptions. viewsproject.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/wri… #ILCD10, #InternationalLEGOClassicismDay #BCEPantheon

@FunkadelicHorse Always love this! 🤩

The first day of my Kickstarter campaign has been plagued with bots making fake pledges, apparently the latest form of phishing for personal data. Please check the campaign out at kickstarter.com/projects/endan… and, if you are in a position to do so, make a genuine pledge!

UNESCO has declared 9th February World Greek Language Day (building on the national day), which seems like a good day to share my recently published open access article: "Mount Hymettos, Athens: A holy place for writing", EGI vol. 1. journals.wisethorough.com/index.php/EGI/…

@TianTian_UCL Oh lovely, thank you!

Spotted this unusual sign on the coffin of Nakhtefmut at @FitzMuseum_UK’s Made in Ancient Egypt exhibition. The “𓍋”(ꜣb) in the name Abydos is given a double feather crown, a headband, and a patch of land to form “𓈽” (tꜣ-wr), the name of the nome in which Abydos was located.

The video from this seminar is now online here: youtu.be/vJfhL_5-w-U?si…

NEW ARTICLE about one of my fave subjects ever… the intersection of design and history :)) open.substack.com/pub/weirdmedie…