MULTIGLYPHSSofia, August 2013
Where Multiglyphs began
Before the books and this game, multiglyphs hung in the open air. For two weeks in August 2013, Sofia’s City Garden, in front of the Ivan Vazov National Theatre, became a walk through In the World of Man (В света на хората).
Visitors at the panels, August 2013
The path through the City Garden
Each panel: a glyph, a question about creativity and its answer
The invitation
A journey in the world of people
Every panel along the path showed an abstract drawing of a person. The task: name as many kinds of people as you can see in it, a tailor, a teacher, a doctor, a climber, or someone you know, a husband, a grandmother, your doctor. There were countless answers and no wrong ones, as long as you could say what made you see them.
Along the way, visitors found scientific facts and famous quotes about creativity. They showed that some widely held beliefs are wrong: that creativity is the privilege of a few, or that it can’t be improved. Everyone is capable of remarkable creativity, as long as they believe it.
The exhibition was one of a series of volunteer initiatives, funded by the book of the same name: the same drawings, organised as tests. The aim was never a high score but the experiment (how the place, the people around you and your mood change what you see) and the fun of turning a solitary test into a game to play together. That book became the five Multiglyphs books; the tests became this game.
Walk the panels
All 32 panels, in the order they stood along the path. Each one, shaped like a suitcase for the journey, paired a glyph with a question about creativity; the dotted line leads from one to the next. The answers are also on this site: What is creativity? 29 questions answered.
Stop 1 of 32 · The start: In the World of Man
Tap a panel to read it full size. Swipe or use the arrows to walk on.
Glyphs in metal
Some glyphs left the page altogether: a spiral-headed figure in yellow, an acrobat in a handstand, a figure holding a bouquet.
Three glyphs in metal
Where the glyphs come from
Every multiglyph started as a ballpoint doodle on a notepad: hundreds of small people, drawn page after page, the best of them circled.
The walk continues online
The same question as in the City Garden: who could this be? One glyph a day, two minutes.