Signstrokes has launched 04.01.21

Signstrokes is a linguistic project for the deaf community founded by Christopher Laing of Haworth Tompkins and Adolfs Kristapsons. Through their online resource they seek to inform British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters and users of BSL about architectural terms. Deaf people are not new to architecture, however they face significant barriers because the sign language vocabulary of the profession is not standardised, and lacks breadth and complexity. Signstrokes seeks to break the cycle of making new signs by finding common ones and communicating these throughout the community. For more information please follow them on Instagram @signstrokes

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