We created Beyond Signs in the City with the objective to promote languages through travel writing, photography and multimedia.

We have so far produced printed and online travel and language guides, photography exhibitions, films and an offline game for the following cities and languages:

• Alcalá de Henares for Spanish
• Bad Radkersburg & Gornja Radgona for German and Slovenian
• Barcelona for Catalan
• Birgu (Città Vittoriosa) for Maltese
• Dobrich for Bulgarian
• Gdańsk for Polish
• Izmir for Turkish
• Miercurea Cuic (Csíkszereda) for Romanian and Hungarian
• Nafplio for Greek

Our concept is simple: we selected a number of cities in European countries. We then photographed and collected information on several linguistic and cultural 'signs' of those cities. Signs included street signs to graffitti, writings in restaurants and bars, information on buildings and heritage places and famous and important incidents and people. We developed a linguistic and cultural guide book that teaches the language and a bit of the culture of the city to its visitors and guests. We filmed aspects of daily life in all cities concerned. And finally we developed an offline game that allows the user to navigate in all cities and learn a bit about their languages.

We hope you will enjoy learning a bit about the language a culture of the Beyond the Signs cities. We definitely enjoyed working on it!

Feel free to give us your feedback in any of the project languages here .