Climoji, a “new” word that overlooks our phones and becomes part of our messages.
With the intent to open a new way of doing conversation.
The Climoji are emoticons designed by the art school in New York to represent climate change.
Huffington Post describes them like this:
“Deceptively adorable, infinitely memorable, communication experts believe these small icons could actually shift the climate conversation to a wider audience, accelerating investment and the broad adoption of solutions to correct global warming.”
They are available for download in both PNG sets for those wishing to use them on their site or integrate them in their own internet graphics as well as for Apple and Android devices on the official website.
Also on the official Climoji website, a page suggests some “How To Use Us”
For example, if you want to express with an emoji your frustration with the plastic pollution that is killing seas and oceans, you have a whale with a plastic bottle in your stomach.
Obviously, using an emoji does not need to fix the conscience or solve the problem, it can help private communication and must be a useful accessory to an equally good personal conduct in the green field.
To see them in action, here is the video presentation presented by the University of New York
Popular culture has the ability to connect the public to difficult problems without using words: emotionally and with humor, no matter how serious the questions may be.
As climate change enters common language, including expressive forms recognizable as emojis, the questions raised by the environmental justice movement can be strengthened.
The Climoji are designed to focus on some of the causes and effects of climate change in small but very powerful icons.
Like emojis, these tools of conversation enter the space of digital communication in which users can meet them together with the famous smileys.
Today emojis are in approval of the Unicode Consortium for official investiture and Facebook has been asked to include in its icon set.
