From #Egyptian hieroglyphs to #Taiwanese Atayal letters. From #Turkish kilim carpet cultural coding to Mosque environment research. - 🤔 “Reiting, how did you end up living with a Turkish family?” “Reiting, how did you end up in Middle East?” “Reiting, how did you get to know Islam?” These are the question I’ve been often asked since my early 20s by journalists, friends, strangers, and even in dating. Sometimes, when I’m really not in a mood to explain all the details, I just give a vague answer, “God put me on this path.” - 🙋🏻‍♀️ And the full story is that: As a 21-year-old student in the Top 1 interior design college in Taiwan, I still felt something was missing in the design system I was in. There was very little attention paid to the indigenous culture in the design world as most of the fortunate students in the design colleges are from han-chinese based families and middle to higher social classes in Taiwan. I saw the opportunity in the national competition and I wanted to apply its resources to give equal creative opportunities to the tribes by developing a design education program for the students in the Taiwanese aboriginal tribes, to help them commercialize the products for selling to tourists. From my research in the Atayal tribe in the mountains of my home city, I found a priest who does research in the cultural coding on ethnic textiles and ancient letters from Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sinai hieroglyphs, Semitic letters, Atayal letters, Greek letters to Roman letters. 😲 The Taiwanese Atayal tribe is best known for its weaving techniques. During the World War II, they hided all the messages into the pattern on garments as a communication tool to protect themselves from the Japanese invaders. I was inspired from interviewing the priest and looked further into similar practices in other regions, and found the Turkish kilim. So I departed from Taiwan and got on my trip to Istanbul. I ended up going through many bazaars and mosques spending a huge amount of time sitting in the mosques taking notes of their interior decorations and observing the praying muslims.

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