Multilingual streets: translating and curating the linguistic landscape

We’re now in the final stages of the linguistic landscapes-focused research project, Multilingual Streets: Translating and Curating the Linguistic Landscape, which explored how people experience languages in public space in their everyday lives.

During the last stages of the project our attention has been focused on finishing the artistic outputs and developing the different toolkits and creative activity sheets, which will be available to download and use in the Autumn, once our project website is launched. It can be easy, in these later stages of a research project, to be somehow caught up in the production of outputs, in checking expenditure and in assessing how what we’ve managed to achieve aligns with what we said we would achieve, back when the project was first designed and submitted for funding. In the intervening time, the world has changed. In this blog post, I reflect on some of the questions arising from the research, theoretical directions and the complexities of undertaking research of this kind during the COVID19 pandemic.